A new home for the holidays? Napolitano Homes has you covered! 

We have been getting many calls this season from families hoping to get into a new home for the new year. We’ve got that wrapped with a bow! Sure it may be short notice, but Napolitano Homes has a few quick delivery homesites available in Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, and Suffolk that are move-in ready.

All these homes need are new owners! We are so excited to see who will be joining the Napolitano Homes family.

Please call us today at 757-435-6396 to schedule a visit.

The Riley • Craftsman Elevation

This elevation offers a wonderful Craftsman feel with Board and Batten and special stone accents. Thicker trim and widow placement also add to the overall atmosphere of this model.

Things are moving along with our plans for the most anticipated new homes community in Chesapeake Va! Napolitano Homes has started building on homesite 2 where our sales office model will be located in Jordan Hall at Johnstown. Our Sales Center will be located in our new model The Riley and the elevation will be our newly designed Craftsman Elevation that you can see in the above image. The Riley will also come in 3 other elevation choices that can be seen below. Along with 11 different color / selection schemes that can be chosen for the exteriors of our elevations. Everything from Read the rest of this entry »

Coming soon to Great Bridge is a fabulous new homes community, Jordan Hall at Johnstown.

This is the newest and most exciting upcoming community with new homes in Chesapeake Va. Napolitano Homes will be building Single Family Homes starting in the Low $300′s to Mid $350s with 6 different model plans to choose from. We will be unveiling some exciting never before seen floorplans as well as some older favorites offered in some of our other Hampton Roads communities. The schools serving this community are Read the rest of this entry »

Today, people are on their smart phones and tablets looking for their next home before they ever actually step foot in it. They visit sites like Trulia, Yelp, Facebook and other favorites every day. So you need to have some strategies to help get them off their phones and into your open house. You can have a huge Social Media following and list every home you’re selling online but if your efforts are not getting actual buyers to the house what good is it doing you? Here are a few ways to get them off their phones and into your homes!

1. Invite Away
You are going to want to invite your followers on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and so on. It is very easy to create an event on Facebook for any open house you are setting up. Head to Facebook.com/events and you’re ready to roll. Is just sending an invite really enough though? Take this idea farther, make it fun and help convert your Likers into visitors. Use your Social Media and post a coupon on your Facebook page instructing people to print it out, bring it with them and they will get a $10 Gift Card to Home Depot. Or tell them to share the post and they will be entered into a drawing that will take place at the open house and they must be present to win. You get the idea. Read the rest of this entry »

Standing out from the the crowd is something you hear a lot about these days with the housing market the way it is. Whether you’re a new home builder or Realtor, there’s certainly a lot of pressure to “Be Different.” But here’s the million dollar question. How? What can you do to stand out over everyone else selling homes in your area? Here are a few helpful tips and ideas that might help you get started on the road to differentiation and more homes sold!

1. Know where you are.
You need to take a step back and look at what the market is doing in your area. Don’t pay attention to what they’re saying on the national news. Narrow down the specific communities you’re selling in and the area you’re around the most. What do buyers and people in your market think is important when it comes to buying a home, or even real estate in general. But most importantly you want to find out what other Realtors are not doing and do it. Find a hole that no one else is filling and be that plug! There are so many Realtors that are online but you won’t remember half of them. Why? No one is going to remember something that looks like everything else. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Media is in and on everything these days. You can’t look at a print ad or visit a website without the Twitter bird flying out or seeing the familiar Facebook symbols. But it seems like the big question for people with business or in this case with real-estate to sell is: “How can all these sites help me sell my homes? First off, I think it’s important to say right off the bat, that just using Social Media will not sell your homes. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, Google+ and so on, are not the undiscovered Holy Grail for real-estate sales. What they can do, if used correctly, is two-fold. They will give a personal voice to you and your business and get what you’re selling where people are looking. Gone are the days where you can run a newspaper ad and be done.



Buyers are online everyday, everywhere, all the time. Using these Social Media sites with your other forms of marketing and creating a unified plan will help you sell. But what we wanted to talk to you about are Read the rest of this entry »

There’s an app for that right? Seems like there’s an app for everything these days and your home is no exception. We have gone through some of the top Home Apps out there for your smart phones and tablets and put together some of our favorites. Everything from matching your wall paint with that red pillow on your couch to finally really finding out if that picture your husband hung is actually straight. Did you know there are Apps out there that can help you make sure you’re up to date with all the latest interior design trends and that can help you price out that power tool you’ve been eyeing?

iHandy Carpenter ($1.99 for iPhone)
This is the first no weight tool kit! It offers 5 tools in 1 App: Plumb Bob, Surface Level, Bubble Level Bar, Steel Protractor and Steel Ruler. This is great for picture hanging and those on the spot jobs where you just can’t be bother to run out to the garage and hunt down that huge level you have somewhere. Read the rest of this entry »

So hopefully by now you have had a chance to take a few minutes and peruse our shiny new website. If not please do! There are some fun new and exciting features, one of them we are particularly giddy about is our new Realtors Tab. This is a section just for our Realtor Community. To help you keep track of what’s going on at Napolitano Homes, what Move-In Ready homes we have available in what communities and what our latest incentives for you are. We always have a Realtor Appreciation Program in place, as you sell more of our homes, we give you more money! Pretty simple right? But we also sometimes have different incentives on our new homes in Virginia depending on what community. Like right now we have an EXTRA $2500 dollar bonus when you sell one of our homes in Brewers Meadow.

You can learn more about that incentive and others when you register for our realtors section. I know that word register is scary, and yes it will ask you for your email address. But it only takes a second and we will use that info to let you know about exclusive offers and our awesome new homes before anyone else knows! We know realtors are a very important part of Napolitano Homes and our success as new home builders and we want to give you rewards for helping us sell our homes.

Napolitano Homes Community - The Meadows at KempBridge

So spring is here, and with it comes the overwhelming “call of the outdoors.” Inevitably, you know you will hear the words Spring Cleaning come out of someone’s mouth within the next few weeks. With this renewal and rebirth of nature also comes our innate need to give some “rebirth” to our humble abodes as well. But for this little Napolitano Homes blog installment lets take the attention off the inside of our homes and bring some ideas for the outside to the table.

A Happy Lawn

Reseeding your lawn is an inexpensive way to freshen up the outside of your home for spring.  A few tips for the non yard care guru: Make sure you find seed that accommodates the amount of sun light your yard gets.  Spread the seed evenly (which means no dumping the entire bag in one area of the yard),  if you have some abnormal bald spots add a little extra seed there and cover it with hay to keep it in place.

Having problems with your not so green thumb? Good news, it may not be your thumb but the soil! Here is a nifty option to see what’s going on underneath and if you can do something to fix it. The Virginia Tech Soil Testing Laboratory will actually test your soil and tell you what needs to be done! Pretty cool huh? All you have to do is send a little of your dirt and they will tell you probably more than you ever wanted to know about it.

Add Some Color

Nothings announces the end of winter more then an explosion of flowers. All of these examples would be fabulous additions to your yard.

Daffodils: This hardy and happy little yellow friend loves lots of sun and can be grown inside and out. Most of these flowers listed here need to put in the ground before winter to properly bloom in the spring. ( Just didn’t want you running out and throwing these things in the ground now and suffering disappointment).

Crocus: A flower that handles the fluctuating temperatures of spring very well. Your Random Fact for the Day: Did you know the word Crocus is Latin for Saffron? Plant these in bunches of 3-4 and watch them spread around your flower beds.

Tulips: A spring perennial that grows from a bulb and comes in a variety of colors. Certain types do better in different kinds of climates, so take a minute to do a little research to find out which type will work best for where you live.

Gladiolus: These flowers need a lot of sunlight. When you plant them make sure the flat side of the bulb is down and the point is facing up.

Your Deck

We couldn’t forget one of the best outdoor features on a home. Your backyard buddy, the Deck. One of the best places to enjoy the warm weather and entertain friends. There are plenty of nifty options for new accessories this spring to choose from. One of our favorites is the outside Raised Fire Pit. There are many types of these fun little guys available and price tags to fit whatever your budget might be.

A tip for when you shop for deck accoutrements, just make sure to take into consideration the size of your deck space. You don’t want to get that awesome grill or new furniture home and not be able to stand on the deck at the same time with it. Below are two copper fire pit options, the left comes in at about $170 and the right $230. Either would make a wonderful addition to a cool spring night and your smores.

These very stylish interlocking all-weather wicker furniture options are called Art-Deck-Oh! by Deecocp, and are easy to store and move around. ( Not to mention just having these on your deck ups your coolness level like 10 points).

The above are just a few of the limitless ideas when it comes to outdoor options for your home that can help you enjoy the coming of warmer weather (and make your neighbors jealous ). So save the inside cleaning for another day and take a visit to your local Home Depot for some outside home upgrades. See you there and Happy Spring!

What makes a model home, a model home? Ever walk through one and fall in love with a flower arrangement or window treatment and wonder, who is the man/women behind the magic? There are several things that go into a finished model home, but a main one is the level of professional design and furniture layout in the home! We need some help visualizing what a home can look like with our belongings in it and it’s an interior designers job to make that happen. Napolitano Homes has been using the same designer now for over 28 years to help bring our model homes in all of our communities to the next level.

Kathy Browning, owner of Design Consultants has been making homes come to life for 30 years. She has decorated over 80 models for us over the years and helped bring our homes to life for many buyers.  From the time we contact Kathy to let her know we have a new model for her to work on, to when the last pillow is fluffed it can be a 6 month process. After Napolitano lets her know we need her expertise then the fun part begins… “Most of the furniture I get through Las Vegas or High Point Furniture Market.” Kathy explained “Then for fill in pieces later I go local,  Pier 1 and those kind of places.”

Design ideas come from lots of places, Kathy gleans from her involvement with many national building and design organizations, home furnishing markets, trade publications and more. Some include the NAHB Design Trends Round Table & NAHB International Builders Show Design panel, these are organizations where she can learn the latest colors and trends.  As well as what will next year hold for the design market. All models will eventually have to be refreshed but the goal is to choose designs that will be “in” for awhile. “Webinars are really becoming the thing.” Kathy says, allowing people to learn from anywhere. Nature was also something Kathy mentioned as an inspiration, for paint colors and layout ideas. “I see a sunset and whip out my iPhone to snap a picture and remember the colors and how they worked together.”

Napolitano Homes is very excited because we have asked Kathy to take some time out of her busy designer schedule to do a series of design seminars at our Sajo Farm Community in Virginia Beach! The first one will be this March 24th at 6pm at the Napolitano Homes Manor Homes model. You too can learn from an expert how it’s done and what goes into the design and layout of a model home! As well as pick up a few tips and tricks for your own home to wet your design appetite.