Many Ways to Build a New Custom Florida Home

If you’re moving to the Sunshine State or researching the possibility of it, new construction is the best way to ensure your new home is everything you’d like it to be. Building a new custom home allows you to chose your community, home site, floor plan, its elevation (or exterior appearance), and interior design elements. …

If you are interested in building your own new custom home from the ground up with ICI Custom Homes, you may be interested in a Construction to Permanent Loan. Also called a Construction to Perm Loan, or just Construction Perm Loan, these types of loans are taken out before your home breaks ground. Then, once your home is complete, it functions as a standard loan that most people are familiar with.

ICI Custom Homes Division’s Project Manager for North Florida, Matt Wilford, interviewed John Robinson to give us some answers on what exactly these loans are and how they can benefit a future homeowner. John Robinson is the Vice President of Mortgage Banking at Hancock-Whitney.

Read below for the interview, or watch the video for more information.

ICI Homes’ commitment to customizing the homes we build, isn’t mere company slogan. As one of Florida’s largest homebuilders for almost four decades, we want to sell you a home, but not one you’re unsure of. Enter Don Wilford, the president of ICI Homes’ Custom Home Division. It’s his company-wide mandate to ensure clients know …

If you’ve read some of our posts on customization, you’re likely aware that not every potential client brings simple requests to their meeting with an ICI Homes designer. It’s not always as straightforward as, “Can we extend the garage wall by two feet in order to install overhead storage cabinets?” But do we love a …

We at ICI Homes want to build a home that truly fits you. Giving potential clients the opportunity to sit with one of our designers to discuss floorplans, or brainstorm design problems, is how we’ve done business for almost four decades. But, it’s not how many of our peers do it. “Nine out of ten …

We at ICI Homes can customize the new Florida home you’d like to build, and you want us to do exactly that. What happens next? Regardless of where you are in the decision process — bewildered about what kind of home you’d like, or already specific about changes to a certain floorplan — we can …

If you are searching for a new home, you’ve likely visited homebuilders’ model homes and/or explored their floorplans online. Are you part of that small percentage of buyers who immediately fall in love with a floorplan? Congratulations! For most of us, that home probably doesn’t’t exist. Yet. Most of us seek a mash-up of floorplans …

Interested in ICI Homes building your new Florida home? Perhaps you’ve targeted one of our master-planned developments in North, East, Central or West Florida. The next step, if you haven’t taken it, is to select a floorplan that works for you and your household. You might fall in love with one of our more than …

For nearly four decades, ICI Homes has designed an extensive library of more than 100 floorplans. Many are award-winners and client favorites, but none are static. That’s because the ability to customize each of those plans to fit an exact buyer, is one of the traits that defines ICI Homes. In fact, allow us to …

How badly do you want to build your dream home? Fortunately, most of us don’t have to run reality-TV gauntlets when it comes to choosing a community for our next new home. But sometimes the difference between adequate and awesome does require extra effort — let’s call it communication — between buyer and builder. ICI …

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