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ST. LOUIS, MO (May, 2013) – A group of St. Louis’ largest home builders has announced a new stimulus program that focuses on putting people back to work and giving consumers a great deal.

The promotion is called The Neighborhoods Built by Your Neighbors Program. It is a fund created by a consortium of local St. Louis Unions to help stimulate new home ownership. The program is exclusive to St. Louis Union Homebuilding Partnership members.

Partnership members are Bridgewater Communities, Dettmer Homes, Fischer & Frichtel, McBride & Son Homes, McKelvey Homes, Payne Family Homes and Simon Homes.

“This program is a testament to the relationship between St. Louis’ leading home builders and its Union trade partners,” said John F. Eilermann Jr., Chairman and CEO of McBride & Son Companies. “And most importantly it shows how the best way to stimulate our local economy and get people working again is to all work together.”

The program, which runs only during the month of May, provides cash to buyers for use at closing. Cash amounts range from $2,000 to $10,000 based on the sales price of the home. It is limited participating builder’s communities in Missouri.

“It’s real cash for use at closing and it’s in addition to St. Louis Union Homebuilding Partnership Builder’s best deal  ,” stated Jim Brennan, owner of McKelvey Homes. “It’s really an amazing deal for buyers.”

Eight local unions are contributing to the fund which allows for an average $5,000 per home. Certificates will be distributed on a first come basis.

“Our local Unions have made a big investment in getting people back to work,” said Ken Kruse, president of Payne Family Homes. “They have committed $1,150,000 in cash for use at closing to home buyers. That really says a lot.”

The Union contributions are based upon man hours by trade on an average St. Louis home. 

“ “This program is about neighbors coming together to make a difference.,” stated Ted Dettmer president and CEO of Dettmer Homes.  “That fact is when Union trades people are working they are buying other goods and services and the economy grows.”

Barry Simon of Simon Homes agreed, “It is a great testament to the ‘can do’ spirit in St. Louis homebuilding. We are excited to be a part of it.”

The Neighborhoods Built by Your Neighbors Program is exclusive to Partnership members, limited to Missouri communities and runs only during May 2013.

“We are proud to be a part of this program; it gets the economy moving and gives unprecedented deals for buyers,” said Bridgewater Communities president Tim Miller.

Participating unions include: Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis, International Union of Painters & Allied Trades District 2, Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1, Sheet Metal Workers Local 36, Greater St. Louis Construction Laborers and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 513.

The Neighborhoods Built by Your Neighbors Program is only during May 2013. See www.STLUnionBuilders.com for details or contact Payne Family Homes directly at 314-477-1218.

We are excited to annouce the introduction of a brand new story-and-a half plan to four of our communities!  The 2,630 square foot “Wright” model is part of our Vision Series and has a main floor master suite and three auxiliary bedrooms on the second floor-plus a loft.  Other features of the new floor plan include a dramatic two-story foyer and wswitchback staircase, open kitchen with large walk-in pantry and breakfast bar peninsula, a spacious master suite walk-in closet, and a main-floor flex room that can be used as a formal dining room, office or play room.  Optional plan features include a 3-car garage, luxury master bath, vaulted or 10′ ceilings in the great room, loft open to the first floor, “princess” suite, Jack and Jill bath and more!

The Wright is offered at Ashton Woods in Eureka, and Bella Vista, The Meadows at Ohmes Farm and Willow Walk Estates in St. Charles County.  Simply click on the community’s name to view pricing, available elevations and plan options for this all new plan!  Or for more information, talk to our Online Team at 314-477-1218.

Payne Family Homes is excited to announce our premier new home community in Lake Saint Louis!  We’ve acquired 9 outstanding home settings in Sommers Landing, an established residential development situated at the intersection of Highway N and Sommers Road.

In Sommers Landing, Payne Family customers will choose from seven top-of-the line home designs, carefully selected from our innovative Lifestyle and Vision Series portfolio of homes and consistent with the neighborhood’s upscale ambiance.

Our onsite information center is currently open for sales Friday through Sunday, with appointments available during the rest of the week, and Stephanie Russo has been named our Community Sales Manager.  “Lake Saint Louis is considered on of the most prestigious locations in St. Charles County, so we’re anticipating a considerable amount of interest from move-up buyers wanting to build a new home in the Lake Saint Louis area,” Russo commented.

Construction of our display model, a “Franklin” two-story, is now under way.  “The Franklin is one of our top-selling designs, and we’ll be displaying this home at Sommers Landing for the first time anywhere,” Russo added.

Showcasing the architecturally distinctive, quality-crafted styling and customer-preferred features our customers have come to recognize us for, the Franklin is a side-staircase plan with more than 2,500 square feet of living space, an exceptionally open main-floor layout, and a large loft accessing the owner’s suite and three generous auxiliary bedrooms on the upper level.

All but two of our home sites in the community are walk-outs, and Russo urges shoppers to reserve their sites as soon as possible, since ownership opportunities are extremely limited.  Ranging up to 3186 square feet in size, the ranch, 1.5-story, and 2-story designs provide three or four bedrooms, and pricing starts from the $230,000s.

Further enhancing its appeal, Sommers Landing is located just west of I-64/40, offering resident commuters a direct route to the numerous corporations headquartered along the Highway 40 corridor, all parts of West County, and downtown St. Louis, as well as the countless new shopping, dining, and entertainment facilities of Lake Saint Louis.

Residents are served by the top-rated Wentzville School District, and freshman will attend the district’s brand-new Liberty High School, which will be welcoming its first entering class in the fall of 2013.

Interested homebuyers are invited to  inquire on the offerings at Sommers Landing by calling Stephanie at 314-724-6226. Available floorplans and more details can also be viewed here.

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Ranked among the fastest-growing St. Louis homebuilders, Payne Family Homes offers unparalleled customer care and a quality-built home you’ll be proud to live in.  We build innovative lifestyle-oriented homes in a wide variety of styles, featuring unique single-family, condominium, villa, terrace, and cottage home designs.  Our new homes are offered in preferred neighborhoods throughout the St. Louis and St. Charles county areas, including St. Peters, Wentzville, O’Fallon, Lake Saint Louis, Eureka, St. Charles, and St. Louis, Missouri.  We cordially invite you to see the difference, feel the difference, and live the difference in a Payne Family Home.

It’s a new year at Payne Family Homes and we’re excited to share our new website with everyone!  In case you haven’t had a chance to check everything out, we’ve got some great new features that will hopefully make your search for a new home in Saint Louis or Saint Charles more enjoyable, more informative and easier to navigate!  Here’s a just few of the many new features that are worthy of pointing out:

1. Homebuyer’s Corner-The Homebuyer’s Corner will provide you with additional information about purchasing a new home.  Here you can check out our special offers, learn more about the purchasing process, read FAQ’s that previous customers have asked and more.

2. My Favorites-My Favorites gives you the ability to store your favorite communities and floorplans so you can access them easily the next time you visit us! 

3. Gallery-Want to see what our homes look like?  Check out our gallery where you can see photos of various homes and floorplans.  If you have a question about what floorplan a home is, be sure to ask us!

4. Realtor’s Hub-If you’re a local  realtor, be sure to check out our Realtor’s Hub!  Here you can save homes and floorplans, register a client, view special promotions and much more.

Thanks for taking the time to check out our new website!  We hope that you enjoy all of the new features and we look forward to helping you find your new home!

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Ranked among the fastest-growing St. Louis homebuilders, Payne Family Homes offers unparalleled customer care and a quality-built home you’ll be proud to live in.  We build innovative lifestyle-oriented homes in a wide variety of styles, featuring unique single-family. condominium, villa, terrace, and cottage home designs.  Our new homes are offered in preferred neighborhoods throughout the St. Louis and St. Charles county areas, including St. Peters, Wentzville, O’Fallon, Lake Saint Louis, Eureka, St. Charles, and St. Louis, Missouri.  We cordially invite you to see the difference, feel the difference, and live the difference in a Payne Family Home.

If your lawn sprinkler has been running full blast for weeks and the blistering heat has made yard work a misery, there’s relief in sight! Easy-maintenance living is just one of the many attractions at Walden Pond, our newest low-maintenance new home community.  This villa community is located in O’Fallon, MO and we’re excited to annouce that our Earhart Display is now open! This home is a wonderfully open, 1,444 square foot ranch home shown with a variety of options, and our personal favorite, an upper-level “eagle’s nest” that adds another 546 square feet and includes a loft and third bedroom and bath.  We’ll give you a sneak peak below, but you’ve gotta see it in person to get the full effect.

Walden Pond features five of our top-selling ranch, story-&-a-half, and 2-story low-maintenance villa designs and provide 1,338 to 2,424 sf of living space.  Plus, you’re able to choose from 44 walk-out and ingrade sites, many of which back to woods.  We’ve found the price though to be the biggest attraction at this neighborhood–these homes start from the upper $130,000s, which is an incredible price for this location and product line!  Conveniently located off Bryan Road and I-70 in North O’Fallon, Walden Pond gives you great access to O’Fallon’s shopping, dining, and recreational facilities, and top-rated Fort Zumwalt schools.

Interested in finding out more? Check out our floorplans or call us at 314-996-9909.

All of us here at Payne Family Homes are incredibly excited to announce that our 2nd Annual Summer Signing Sale is now under way at EVERY Payne Family Homes neighborhood!  If you’ve been searching for a new home in St. Louis or St. Charles, we hope that you’ll come visit us and see what we have to offer.  During the month of July, we’ve got incredible savings on completed inventory homes and great closing cost incentives on new to-be-built homes.  If you’re looking for something quick, you better hurry though-our inventory homes are not lasting long!  For more information, simply click here to get in touch with Ashley, our Online Sales Consultant.  You can also check out our quick move-in homes on our Fast-Move Page. 

We are very proud to annouce that we’ve ranked #2 in the St. Louis Business Journal’s List of Fastest Growing Private Companies! 

We just want to take a quick minute to thank our customers, realtors, trade partners and everyone on our team that has made this sucess possible!  It would not be possible without each and every one of you!

For more information on any of our new homes in St. Louis or new homes in St. Charles, contact Ashley at 314.477.1218 or just click here!

We’ve added a new album to our Facebook Page and we want you to check it out! It’s all about kitchens and the different options, colors, and plans that are offered at Payne Family Homes. Be sure to share your comments on our photos and tell us why you like a certain kitchen!  We figured you might want a sneak peak as well, so here you go!  (New pictures will be loaded to our album on a regular basis so be sure to visit our Facebook page often!

Payne Family Homes is proud to announce their membership in the St. Louis Union Homebuilding Partnership!

Together, with 7 other area builders, we heave teamed with the area’s local unions for The Neighborhoods Built by Your Neighbors Program.  The program’s fund is created by a consortium of local St. Louis Unions to help stimulate new home ownership and provides credits to new home purchasers valued between $2,000 and $10,000 to use at closing.  The credits are based on the contract price of the home and certificates are awarded to home purchasers on a first come first served basis. 

We’re very excited about this program and couldn’t be more grateful to the participating unions: Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis, International Union of Painters & Allied Trades District 2, Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1, Sheet Metal Workers Local 36, Greater St. Louis Construction Laborers, International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers, International Union of Operating Engineers Local 513 and Cement Masons Local 527.

Thinking of purchasing a new home this month?  Better act fast!  Our funds are limited in this program–so stop by any of our communities to find out more information! Or

*This offer is valid on firm purchase agreements while funds are available 2/6/12 through 2/29/12.

Payne Family Homes seems to have found the key to success, gaining prominence in the regional St. Louis market in just a few short years.  Already recognized with numerous awards for construction excellence, Payne Family currently offers 10 residential communities in St. Charles, St. Peters, Cottleville, Wentzville, Fenton, and Eureka – and is about to make its initial entry into O’Fallon (MO).

 The company’s newest acquisition consists of 44 attached villa sites in Walden Pond, an established, multi-product development located off Elaine Drive, north of Interstate 70, in North O’Fallon.  The community portfolio will feature three villa designs that have been wildly popular with the full spectrum of homebuyers in The Pointe at Heritage Crossing, a Payne Family neighborhood in St. Peters, plus two new plans that have recently made their debut.

Grouped in pairs, the various models are offered in ranch, story-&-a-half, and two-story styles, with 1338 to 2424 square feet on the main levels.  All include a 2-car garage and full basement, which can be finished for additional living space.  Several attractive new elevations will also be unveiled at Walden Pond, showcasing assorted combinations of brick, stone, stucco, shake, and siding.

A sneak peak of one of the exterior elevation options of the villa homes offered at Walden Pond!

 According to Shawn Arterburn, vice president of operations, “It’s the pricing structure for these quality-built villa homes that is most likely to impress our customers.  The collection is based from the $130’s, which is an amazing price point for this product line.” 

 The Agenda

Walden Pond’s temporary onsite sales center opened to the public last weekend and Grand Opening is projected for spring.  Construction of Walden Pond’s “Earhart” display, a 1444-square-foot ranch with two bedrooms and two full baths, is expected to begin shortly.  Shoppers can also experience one of the models offered at Walden Pond, the “Keller“, which is now on display in The Pointe. 

Wonderfully livable and ideal for entertaining, the Earhart’s activity areas – living room, dining room, and kitchen – are completely open and extend the full depth of the home.  Flexibility, is another feature Payne will be showcasing at Walden Pond.  Two of the floorplans offered provide buyers with the ability to build up, or down, or both!  Payne’s “Earhart” display will be highlighting the optional 2nd floor plan offered in a loft or 3rd bed/3rd bath configuration–providing buyers with ample flexibility to have guest quarters, space for grandkids, holiday quarters for a child returning from college, crafting room, reading nook, 2nd office, and much more!

Although all of the walk-out and ingrade sites are available for purchase, prime site selection isn’t the only good reason to be among the early villa owners at Walden Pond.  Payne Family Homes is offering a valuable Preview Special – one year of free Homeowner Association dues (including provided exterior maintenance services) plus $2,500 toward closings – to pre-grand opening buyers.

 A Great Place to Live

Highly selective in its choice of geographic locations, Payne Family Homes carefully evaluates the anticipated “lifestyle considerations” of each community’s future residents – commuter access, quality schools, and nearby commercial, recreational, and entertainment amenities.  And the City of O’Fallon certainly meets – and exceeds – those standards.

Twice ranked among America’s “100 Best Places to Live” by Money magazine, O’Fallon offers a wealth of shopping, dining, and recreational opportunities, including 475 acres of city parks and Renaud Spirit Center, with its state-of-the-art fitness, sports, and aquatic facilities.  Public education is provided by the top-rated Fort Zumwalt School District.

Affordable pricing.  Award-winning quality.  Easy-maintenance living.  A fabulous location.  And outstanding customer service.  Walden Pond is destined to be a winner!

Interested villa buyers can inquire about Walden Pond with Community Sales Manager, Jane Peacock, by simply calling (314)-996-9909, clicking www.PayneFamilyHomes.com, or stopping by!  You can also request more information by clicking here and directions to Walden Pond can be found here.

Disclaimer: Payne Family Homes reserves the right to make changes or improvements to prices, specifications and incentives without notice to maintain our continuous improvement policy. Select plans may be restricted to certain sites. Select elevations, colors, landscaping, lighting, and other selections represented above are an artist’s interpretation and may carry premiums. See Community Sales Manager for details.