Your West Michigan Home Builders 
As guest speaker at the United Way Community Leadership Conference on Friday, March 18, Sable Homes President John Bitely addressed the need for affordable housing in West Michigan. “Many of us have forgotten what 2006 was like,” said Bitely as reported by the Greenville Daily News. “Greenville, Eureka Township, instantly, overnight, that housing market was […]
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John Bitely, president of Sable Homes, doesn’t foresee any signs of the increase in rental prices stabilizing or declining in West Michigan in 2022. “I currently don’t see any end to the increase in the rental rates for West Michigan,” he said in an interview with the Grand Rapids Business Journal. “The main reason is […]
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Sable Homes, in cooperation with Fishbeck, the City of Newaygo, Newaygo County, and the Michigan Land Bank Authority, kicked off phase two of the River Hills neighborhood in Newaygo this morning with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The celebration marked the official welcoming of a pilot program designed to increase Michigan’s housing stock and help alleviate […]
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State officials and economic developers are eyeing Sable Homes’ River Hills Estates development in Newaygo as a new home development model that could solve the workforce housing crisis in Michigan. John Bitely, president of Sable Homes, has long recognized the need for workforce housing for the “missing middle.” In early 2020, he began working with […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a seven-week shutdown for home builders in Michigan last spring. Now, nearly four months after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gave the green light for builders to pick up where they left off, Sable Homes’ General Manager Bryan Burnham shares how the company has adapted during this pandemic. In early March, Sables Homes […]
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Karin Kay, sales manager at Sable Homes, talked with Fox17 about the suburban millennial housing boom in Grand Rapids during a live video conference interview on Saturday, June 6. Data from the National Association of Home Builders shows sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 0.6 percent nationwide in April 2020, and National Association of […]
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Home construction in 2020 is off to a booming start in Michigan. But the Home Builders Association of Michigan warns about a looming housing crisis. “We’re on fire, we’re building a lot of homes. A lot of buyers are buying homes,” John Bitely, president of Rockford-based Sable Homes, told Fox 17. “But there’s a real […]
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