$15,000 Landscaping Design Credit For Your New Home in La Quinta, Calif.

Active Adult New Homes

If you like year-round sunshine, beautiful mountain vistas, PGA Tour quality golf, and access to hundreds of fantastic restaurants and invigorating activities then a home at Trilogy at La Quinta in the Palm Springs area is calling your name!

In fact, this Active Adult Community has a new home ready for occupancy!

The Maurea model (homesite #6170) features 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage, extensive tile floors and is 1,636 sq. ft.

Hurry as it is the last Maurea model with a casita.

This new home is listed at only $334,760 which includes a $15,000 Design Credit toward Landscaping.

More new homes at Trilogy at La Quinta are planned. Visit www.TrilogyLife.com to view your selection.

Happy New Home Hunting!

Stay in a New Home on Your Vacation Days* Getaway to Victoria Gardens, Florida

Are you ready for a Vacation Days getaway with Trilogy at Victoria Gardens?

Active Adult Lifestyle

You can experience the Victoria Gardens lifestyle for 3 days and 2 nights starting at $69.00 (or $89.00 including golf)*.

Wow! What a deal!

The Vacation Days package is your chance to join the ranks of the fun and fabulous, first for a weekend, and maybe for a lot longer. The Vacation Days program at Victoria Gardens lets you come down and get a feel for what resort living is all about. Schedule your vacation visit and stay in a spectacular Victoria Gardens home, relax in our Resort Club, play a little golf at the nearby Victoria Hills Golf Club, or meet for drinks & dinner at Mulligan’s Tavern & Grille.

The Vacation Days experience includes:

• Unlimited access to the Victoria Gardens' recreational facilities
• Complimentary lunch for two at the Clubhouse Cafe
• A beautiful Victoria Gardens home
• Championship golf at the adjacent Victoria Park Golf Club

New Homes for Active Adults

While you are at Victoria Gardens, consider other ways to spend your day there:

• Wake up to yoga followed by coffee in the cafe.
• Challenge your partner to a tennis match on our professional courts
• Enjoy a casual lunch with friends followed by an afternoon lounging poolside
• Finish off your perfect day with a toast to the good life at the Club followed by a gourmet dinner at Mulligan’s Tavern & Grill.

Active Adult Communities

*Offer good for a limited time and is subject to availability. Participants will meet for a 90 min informational orientation with a community representative. Victoria Gardens is a community by Shea Homes, Inc., an independent member of the Shea family of companies. Homes at Victoria Gardens are intended for occupancy by at least one person 55 years of age or older, with certain exceptions for younger persons as provided by law and the governing covenants, conditions and restrictions. Models shown do not represent an indication of racial preference. Void where prohibited. This is not an offer of real estate for sale, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy, to residents of any state or province in which registration and other legal requirements have not been fulfilled. Prices subject to change without notice. Cancellation refunds will be honored up to 24 hours prior to a scheduled stay. Travel expenses are not included in this offer and are the responsibility of the guest.

La Casa Debuts Today in the Active Adult Community of Encanterra

Encanterra, an Active Adult Community by Trilogy, debuts its massive $25 million La Casa clubhouse in San Tan Valley today, February 13th.

For one day only (today) the general public is welcome to visit!

It's here that all residents will pick up mail, grab coffee, mingle with neighbors, enjoy workouts and dine.

You will find a pool-side bar and grill, an Internet cafe, a full-service spa and a gym where fitness buffs can plug their iPods into their treadmills. You will also find a business center next to residents' mailboxes where you can ship packages or use a copy machine.

It's a luxurious amenity for active adults who purchase their new homes here.

New Homes for Active Adults

The design of La Casa is meant to invoke a historical, comfortable, Spanish-style ranch home - hence the Spanish name, which means "the house." It's built on a residential scale - albeit one that stretches for 47,000 square feet - to give members dozens of cozy spaces to experience.

There are a dedicated lawn and studio for fitness classes, an oversize kitchen/family room for parties and cooking demonstrations, and four restaurants.

It has 13,000 feet of outdoor patio space for dining and events, which also helps accommodate bigger crowds during the busier winter months. Those spots include outdoor dining niches with fireplaces for small gatherings.

It overlooks a private Tom Lehman-designed golf course. The clubhouse has the Mallorca events center for weddings and banquets.

Like many other areas in La Casa, the Grand Living Room features 10-foot-tall folding glass doors that can be fully retracted to erase boundaries between the interior rooms and the patios with their wicker furniture.

The clubhouse is designed as a gathering place that's grand yet comfortable, comprehensive but not institutional, Old World Mediterranean but with a contemporary vibe. In short: new resort, not old retirement.

To learn more about buying a new home in the Active Adult Community at Encanterra visit www.TrilogyLife.com.

Housing Market Trends Influenced by Baby Boomers

Active Adult New Homes

What's ahead for the housing market?

According to Bankrate.com, homeowners and homebuyers should watch four trends:

1. Echo boomers' entry into their peak home buying years,
2. Baby boomers' entry into their peak home-selling years,
3. The new demand for smaller homes, and
4. The new demand for more energy-efficient homes.

New homes to be compact, energy-efficient

In relation to trends #3 and #4, smaller homes may be in greater demand as the population ages due to the baby boomers. Empty-nesters will need one spare bedroom for visiting grandchildren opposed to four bedrooms for growing teenagers. Smaller homes are also cheaper and easier to maintain and should be less costly to heat and cool.

A National Association of Home Builders report, "Home of the Future," states that the size of new single-family homes reached a 35-year record of more than 2,400 square feet in 2006. But that growth spurt isn't expected to continue into this decade. Instead, the average size of a new home will range from about 2,300 to 2,500 square feet in 2015.

Future new homes will be more compact, more efficiently designed in their use of space and richer in amenities inside the home and nearby in the neighborhood. These trends are seen as another likely result of an aging population and the push toward more efficient land use.

New homes also will be more energy-efficient in terms of windows, doors, insulation and even site planning due to concerns about climate change and the need to reduce energy consumption and emissions.

View energy-efficient, new homes for active adults here.