Community involvement is important to McKee Homes, particularly when it involves new home construction. In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8th, McKee Homes sponsored and volunteered in the Fayetteville NC Area Habitat for Humanity (FAHFH) annual Women Build event. Building Awareness Habitat for Humanity’s (HFHI) Women Build program “focuses on building and improving […]
McKee Homes has 3D interactive video tours for home shoppers that want to virtually walk through our floorplans without leaving the comfort of their current home or office. This is especially useful for homebuyers that want to buy a presale home, which is a home that hasn’t been built yet. This allows the homebuyer to […]
In August of 2018, news organization Reuters published a series of articles covering apparent lapses in the oversight of living conditions in homes of military families. These allegations targeted private contractors commissioned to build and oversee maintenance of military housing developments. Among other issues, some homes allegedly had paint with high levels of lead, moisture […]
McKee Homes has been a Raleigh NC home builder since 2013. We were established in Fayetteville in 2010, but began new construction in Raleigh NC six years ago with Summerwind Plantation in Garner, just south of Raleigh. Since then, we have opened new home communities in Raleigh, Clayton, Knightdale, Wake Forest and Fuquay-Varina. Copper Pond […]
McKee Homes is proud to announce the grand opening of its Leland, NC Design Studio! To kick off the opening of the design studio, McKee Homes hosted a fun grand opening event at its new location. Harrington Square is a luxury residential and commercial development in Leland NC, located just 5 miles from Wilmington’s downtown […]
McKee Homes has been building in Wilmington NC since 2013 when we opened Hanover Reserve. Since then we have opened or started new phases in six new home communities in Wilmington and Leland. We have also just built a new design studio in Leland at 2163 Britton Rd to service all our Wilmington NC New […]
In recent years the need for new and affordable housing has grown exponentially. A recent analysis on new home construction by the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development showed that the demand for new housing was 10 times higher than the amount of housing available. Additional reports have placed new home construction starts at […]
Most people assume that when the prime rate goes up, mortgage interest rates quickly follow. While there is not a direct correlation between the two, the prime rate can indirectly influence many mortgage loan rates. Prime Rate The prime rate is based largely on the federal funds rate, tracking about 3% higher than the Federal […]
The longest government shutdown on record has just ended but it could be reinstated within weeks. If you are in the process of securing a mortgage loan or plan on getting a mortgage loan soon, you can find useful information in this article to help you navigate through the home buying process during a government […]
According to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data from 2016, a record 64 million people, or approximately 20% of the U.S. population, lived with multiple generations in the same house. Reasons: Recent increases in new home costs such as tariffs, labor shortages, lot development costs, and other factors are driving up the cost […]