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MarketWatch: Don’t Let Down-Payment Gifts Delay Mortgage Loan

December 19, 2011

Coming up with a down payment is often a first-time home buyer’s biggest challenge.

That’s why many of them get a little help from relatives or friends. In 2010, 27% of first-time buyers received a gift from a friend or relative to use toward their down payment. That’s up from 22% in 2009 and 23% in 2005, according to statistics from the National Association of Realtors.

In November, Carolyn Gage moved back into the foreclosed home from which she was evicted in early 2011 -- the home her father built,… Continue reading

Baltimore Business Journal: Bozzuto Homes Launches Bridal Registry Program

December 01, 2011

The Bozzuto Group will match up to $15,000 for every homebuyer who signs up for its new bridal registry program.

The Greenbelt-based home builder’s Bozzuto Bridal Registry allows engaged couples to register money they receive, instead of or in addition to, traditional bridal registries. Those funds must be used toward the purchase of a new Bozzuto Home. Bozzuto will match contributions up to $15,000.

“Given the current economic and employment climate, many couples are now looking for more practical wedding… Continue reading

Builder Magazine: Bozzuto's Bridal Registry Program Courts Engaged Couples

November 29, 2011

The builder will match gifts contributed toward the purchase of a home, up to $15,000.

Engaged couples are accustomed to making the registry rounds to pick out china patterns and cutlery sets, but Greenbelt, Md.–based Bozzuto Homes is asking soon-to-be newlyweds to think passed all that and consider where they’ll be housing that china—and themselves—with its new Bozzuto Bridal Registry.

Launched yesterday, the program allows engaged couples to pick out the Bozzuto home they want and create a registry… Continue reading

Multi-Housing News: Get Something Old, Something New [Home]

November 29, 2011

Fine china. A new crockpot. The down payment to a new home. What was on your bridal registry?

The Bozzuto Group, a Washington, D.C., based real estate company with services across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, announced that it is launching its Bozzuto Bridal Registry, where engaged couples can register for money that would be used towards the purchase of a new home—and it can be any property in the Bozzuto community. The best part? Bozzuto will match the money received.

“The way it works is somebody… Continue reading

Baltimore Sun: Bridal Registry Item -- New Home

November 29, 2011

Add new homes to the list of gifts you can register for as you're planning a wedding.

Greenbelt-based Bozzuto Homes announced yesterday that it has launched a bridal registry to allow friends and relatives of engaged couples to contribute to their down payment. The company says it will match up to $15,000, with its contribution going to closing costs.

The first couple that signed up is buying a home in Ellicott City.

Homebuilders appear to be moving in this direction across the country. 1-800-Registry says it is… Continue reading

Curbed DC: Move Aside, Toasters. Downpayments Enter Bridal Registries.

November 28, 2011

The Bozzuto Group recently announced a new program for people who want to buy one of the homes in their portfolio and it involves up to a free fifteen grand for any lovebirds tying the knot (or starting a domestic partnership). Couples can ask friends and family to donate to a their bridal registry fund and Bozzuto will match up to $15,000 towards the house purchase. There are a few stipulations so click on over for the fine print.

· Bozzuto Bridal Registry [Official Site]

Towson Patch: Developers Grant Money for New Trees Near Towson Green

June 20, 2011

The developers of a luxury housing development and an adjacent assisted living home in Towson are looking to build a better relationship with its neighbors, well before either actually opens.

The Bozzuto Group, developers of Towson Green, and the Shelter Group, developers of Brightview Towson, have each donated $2,000 to replant trees and repair some utilities in Burkleigh Square.

"It's important to us to support the neighbors," said Andrew Teeters, director of development for the Baltimore-based Shelter… Continue reading

Towson Times: Ceremonial Shovels Break Ground for $10.3 Million Towson Green Development

June 10, 2011

Officials tout 'green' impact – both environmental and economic

The official ground-breaking ceremony for Towson Green on June 7 moves it one step closer from "a collaborative vision," as Bozzuto Homes president Tom Baum put it, to the construction of 121 townhouses in Towson Manor Village.

The sales office for the $10.3 million housing complex is open daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 22 E. Susquehanna Avenue across from the Towson Library and "the model homes will be open by fall," said… Continue reading

Towson Patch: Bozzuto Breaks Ground on Towson Green

June 07, 2011

The 121-unit complex includes upscale homes and environmentally-friendly features

Government officials and business executives helped preside at the ground-breaking of Towson Green, a 121-unit residential complex near downtown Towson during a ceremony on Tuesday.

The $10.3 million, 9.2-acre project is being built by by the Bozzuto Group and is scheduled for completion in 2014.

"Towson Green represents an important part of the progress that is revitalizing downtown Towson," Baltimore County Executive Kevin… Continue reading

The Gazette: Talking With Steve Monroe: A Hall of Fame Career

May 06, 2011

There was Thomas S. Bozzuto, in larger-than-life images on the big video screens overlooking the ballroom, explaining to the large crowd how the Bozzuto Group of Greenbelt came to be so successful as a developer — and he became a Hall of Fame inductee.

"Early on I thought I wanted to correct all the ills of America's cities," Bozzuto said in his trademark deep voice, speaking of his years as a young man when he earned a master's in urban studies. "Then later I realized that developers were having… Continue reading