The Ivory Homes active adult community located at Daybreak’s Garden Park is set to expand its range of homes to include estate homes, condos and town homes. Currently there are two types of home on offer, Garden Homes and Patio Homes. Both of these home types offer single floor living, with Garden Homes having a basement, and Patio Homes sharing a common courtyard between the homes.

New to the community is the introduction of estate homes. Aimed at people who want to live in the community, but wish to have their own garden, estate homes offer the same single level living, but have their own lots.

The condos also offer single level living, with access via elevator to the top floor of the two story buildings. There are a total of 6 different floor plans, ranging from 900 to 1,400 square feet. Each unit comes with two indoor parking spaces.
The Garden Park town homes come in both rambler and 2-story floor plans, ranging in size from 1,100 to 1,500 square feet.

Pricing for the new home types start in the $180’s for a condo.

Ivory homes are building a new over 55’s community located in South Jordan’s Daybreak development. The community just like Daybreak itself will be big, in fact when finished it will be the largest Active Adult Community in Utah. Garden Park will feature approximately 200 single level living homes, and will have its own facilities including a lap pool, fitness facilities, and park. The development is located just to the north of the Kennecott office building, on the southwest corner of Oquirrh Lake. The development is conveniently located close to the currently under construction SoDa Row Village Center (due to be completed in Sep 2009), and soon to be constructed TRAX light rail.

The initial phase of Garden Park will feature two styles of home. Garden Homes are rambler style homes that feature single level living, and a basement. While Cottages are slab-on-grade rambler homes (no basement), with a shared common grass area. Home prices start in the mid $200’s.

The new model home village is up and running in Daybreak. The village called Daybreak North Shore, is Daybreak’s third, the first two being Founders Village and East Lake Village. There is a noticeable difference in this phase, there are far more homes in the starter home category. If you are looking for homes under $200,000, Daybreak offers far more opportunities in North Shore than in the previous phases.

Builders Garbett Homes offer two styles of homes under $200,000, the ultra modern Bay Town Homes and Bay Lofts and Flats (coming in 2009). This increase in high-density homes seems to signal a change in policy by Kennecott, who have said that there will now be 20,000 homes in Daybreak, compared to the 13,000 when they first started. Maybe this is the result of the slowdown in the Salt Lake Real Estate market, where the low end of the market is still moving, but higher end of the market has slowed substantially.

Having said that Daybreak is building more high-density homes, Rainey who build higher-end homes have increased the size of their homes. Their largest home now weights in at more than 6,300 square feet.

Kennecott have brought in two new builders, Ivory and Garbett (although Garbett is not entirely new, they took over the building of condominiums in phase 1). There are also a few builders’ names missing from North Shore. Richmond American, Bangerter, and Liberty homes are all missing. After asking around the reason these builders are missing is that they still have a large quantity of lots remaining in East Lake Village.

A new introduction to North Shore is the concept of neighborhood retail. A small number of lots have been set aside for small shops / boutiques. This is something that I previously found missing from Daybreak, if they truly wanted to mimic areas like the Avenues then they had to introduce neighborhood stores, which they have now done.

There are also a number of custom home lots available, starting in the $600,000 range. Not sure how successful these will be, my understanding is that they have only sold 1 custom lot so far in East Lake Village.

I have updated our Salt Lake new homes map to incorporate the latest developments and pricing information. This interactive map uses Google Maps functionality to show the location and prices for the major new home builders and developments in Salt Lake County, Davis County, and Utah County. New home prices across the Salt Lake Valley are coming under pressure from the slowdown in the local housing market. Very few builders/developments have increased their prices, with most builders keeping their prices the same or lowering them slightly. Ivory Homes seems to have cut their prices the most, with the majority of developments showing substantial price declines.