Location, location, location! How many times have you heard that phrase?

Usually it’s in the context of a business location to obtain the optimal site for conducting your trade or occupation. But the same holds true for your private residence as well. When you’ve made the important decision to custom build your own High Performance Luxury Home℠, it’s first things first: find a location that you cannot only live with but love.

Here are some cogent tips to guide you:

• Visit the land for sale in person. Always try to visit the property site that you are interested in. Google maps and a slideshow might make you feel like you’ve been there, but nothing replaces walking around the property where you will eventually build your custom luxury home. Observing views from different vantage points and seeing the locations of existing or potential neighbors will give you an idea of how your future neighborhood will look from your new home.

• Check out your prospective home site at different times of the day. Regardless of where you want to live, the property itself, the climate, and the neighborhood can all dramatically change throughout the day. When choosing a luxury custom home lot, visit the site sometime during each period of the day: morning, midday, and evening. Remember, your decision on location may be the most important one that you make in the entire home building process, simply because it is the hardest one to change.
• Consider local resources when choosing a home site. The location of the neighborhood and local resources can have a big impact on your home build. Resources include schools, shopping centers, commute to work, hospitals, parks, and other services and conveniences your family uses daily. While it is important to be happy with your custom home building lot, choosing a neighborhood where the home site is within can be just as important. Fortunately, R.E.A. Homes is here to guide you to a community perfectly suited to your needs.

• Talk to us. A plot of land is a lot like a person, with its own personality, its own strengths, its own weaknesses. It is not enough to just drop the home of your dreams on any available lot. Vital considerations are necessary before ever breaking ground. Knowing what the land will tolerate and conveying the luxury custom home building process is an important element of the scope and expertise of R.E.A. Homes. Contact us today about finding your custom luxury home building site. Together we can build your dream.

Finding the perfect location for your new luxury home is just part of the building science, technology, and operations available to R.E.A. Homes—the only “100% ENERGY STAR committed” custom builder in St. Louis that’s creating luxury homes with superior energy efficiency.