2011 Fall Parade of Homes® Event Overview
Category: Newsroom » Parade of HomesSM - August 19, 2011
The Parade of Homes® is the Twin Cities home tour 
with the largest variety, widest range of prices, and most inventory, including 747,068 finished square feet with 983 bedrooms to tour. You can explore 278 top quality new homes to help you get your fill of the latest and greatest in home trends, all across the 13-county metro area.
All of the 278 new homes and neighborhoods on the Parade of Homes will be open Thursdays through Sundays from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm. Admission is always free except for The BATC Foundation Dream Homes, Parade Homes(sm) #128 and #167 where a charitable donation of $5.00 will be requested at the door. This year Dream Home proceeds are helping fund a third ReBuild Haiti trip as well as a remodeling project for a wounded Veteran and a new home in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Twin Cities.
Visitors can choose to tour new homes, remodeled homes, or both during the final weekend of the event with the Parade of Homes Remodelers Showcase® on from September 30th to October 2nd. Each of the events have their own Guidebook, tailored to readers interested in new or remodeled homes.
This fall the tour offers variety in price and location. The homes are scattered across a broad spectrum of prices. Four are priced below $150,000. A total of 190 homes are priced below $500,000, which represents 70 percent of the entries. A total of 12 homes are priced over $1,000,000, with two of those priced over $2,000,000. There are 74 cities within the metro with homes to tour. The top three cities are Blaine with 26 homes, Plymouth with 21 homes, and Maple Grove with 19 homes to tour.
Parade of Homes Guidebook and website work together
As always, the Parade of Homes is easy to navigate with the comprehensive Guidebook and interactive web site. Free Guidebooks are available at any regional Holiday StationStore. The Guidebook includes a number of directories that list homes by builder, price, location, wheelchair visitable homes, and school district. The Lifestyle Categories allow visitors to choose homes based on the way their family lives.
The Parade of Homes online makes touring even easier. Advanced search options at www.ParadeofHomes.org let visitors choose exactly the features they want in homes to tour. They can get driving directions for each home, even map the quickest route using their own personal TourPlanner. And, the Parade of Homes social media neighborhood is always available to check for the latest information on the tour and the latest in housing trends. The social sites include: The Parade of Homes page on Facebook, the Parade of Homes blog, #pohtc on Twitter and the Parade of Homes YouTube channel. With the new Parade of Homes mobile website, smart-phone users can search easily for both new homes and remodeled homes, and iPhone users can find the app under MyHomeFound Twin Cities.