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Sterling Homes has been one of Alberta’s favourite home builders for 70 years. As a Canadian family-owned home builder, our goal is to provide our customers with the highest quality homes at the most affordable prices possible. With our decades of experience of building and selling homes in dozens of communities throughout Edmonton, we’re uniquely positioned to provide you with the home of your dreams.

With the Evolve product line, our objective as a company is to provide easier access to homeownership, by building homes at a more affordable price.

To achieve our prices and savings we are passing onto buyers, we plan efficient floor plan designs, we purchase materials in bulk for economies of scale, and we simplify the construction process for efficiencies in timeline.

When you buy an Evolve model you can feel comfortable that we have accounted for every nail, board and piece of trim. In turn, we confidently quote our prices and are upfront about clearly explaining expenses to homeowners – there’s no need for promotions or discounts.

Other builders need to offer constant promotions and discounts to attract customers. At Sterling Homes, we believe in giving you our very best price first. By offering our customers an affordable home without compromising on quality, we create relationships built on trust so it’s even easier to choose Sterling Homes.

We understand that your new home is likely the biggest investment in your future you will ever make. We want to give you the confidence that you’re getting the best value for your home buying dollar. As Alberta’s top home builder, we use our buying power to negotiate with our trades and suppliers and get the lowest price for the best quality materials and finishing for your new home.

Build times can vary greatly, due to circumstances that we can’t always control. Usually this just means unexpected weather, although sometimes much more serious and unexpected events affect our build times, such as the current COVID-19 crisis.

The below timelines are just estimated, and consist of averages. Please be aware that things can change a fair bit during the construction phase (Rain, Snow, Cold, Covid-19). As part of our process, Sterling provides customers a target letter that is sent out once our construction team starts rough-ins. This letter will provide a more accurate timeline for when the home will arrive to completion.

Normal circumstances:
Pre-construction phase: 220-240 Days
Foundation phase: 160 Days
Framing phase: 130 Days
Insulation Phase: 100 Days
Texture / Painting: 70 Days
Cleaning Home: 21 Days

COVID Circumstances:
Pre-construction phase: 240-250 Days
Foundation phase: 200 Days
Framing phase: 165 Days
Insulation Phase: 130 Days
Texture / Painting: 85 Days
Cleaning Home: 1 Month

With the Evolve product line, our objective as a company is to provide easier access to homeownership, by building homes at a more affordable price.

To achieve our prices and savings we are passing onto buyers, we plan efficient floor plan designs, we purchase materials in bulk for economies of scale, and we simplify the construction process for efficiencies in timeline. However, there are certain changes you can’t make to your home when buying an Evolve home, such as an upgrading your sink to an under-mount style, as these design decisions are already made.

What you might be thinking is, “but I’m willing to pay for the change!? So why not? I don’t want this specific savings”. The best answer we can provide is this: if we make changes to one, the systematized approach we use, which includes the construction, building, and purchase processes that have been created to achieve the savings on all of our Evolve homes in Edmonton, then gets disrupted, and the gains are quickly lost.

This is why we try to be as transparent as possible when presenting the Evolve Line. For customers with upgrade requests, we typically lead them to our Advantage product line, where customers have the ability to make additional design changes to the home.

For our laned home Evolve product, Sterling provides customers the opportunity to select the interior colour chart, depending on where the home has arrived in it’s construction.

For front attached garage Evolve Homes, it is possible to select your structural floor plan options, certain finishing options, as well as your interior colour chart, depending on where the home is in the construction cycle.

The minimum amount you can put down is 5% of the home’s value, as long as the home costs $500,000 or less. If the cost of the home is over $500,000, the minimum you’ll need to pay is 5% on the first $500,000 and 10% on the remaining balance.

So for example, if your home costs $600,000 the minimum down payment would be:

5% of $500,00 = $25,000
10% of $100,000 = $10,000
Total minimum down payment = $35,000

Programs That Can Help You Out:

• The First-Time Home Buyers’ Tax Credit
• Home Buyer’s Plan
• First Time Homebuyer Incentive

If you are looking to buy a first home, the Mortgage Affordability Calculator will assist you in determining what you can afford.

Click here to access our mortgage affordability calculator

With a pre-approval, you will know the maximum amount of a mortgage you qualify for, estimate your mortgage payments, lock in an interest rate and start shopping for your dream home!

Click here to get an online pre-approval to know how much you may be able to afford and start your house hunt with confidence.

• Immediate response to your online application
• Holds your mortgage rate for 120 days
• Complete online, anytime, anywhere, in just five easy steps
• No credit check required

Have more questions? Check out our blog and our knowledge base, where we answer over 400 questions for homebuyers like you and provide tips for buying or selling a home in Edmonton.