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      <title>Summerwood sales increase 21% in 2011</title>
      <description><![CDATA[New-home sales in Summerwood increased 20% in 2011, with 188 homes sold last year compared to the 155 sold in 2010.

Summerwood’s strong performance vaulted the 1,500-acre community into second place in the Humble/Northeast Houston market, second only to its sister community of Eagle Springs. Both communities are developments of Newland Communities.

Summerwood was also one of the top 50 master-planned communities in the United States for 2011, according to a report from RCLCO, a national real estate advisory firm. Summerwood ranked 36th nationally, and 11th in the overall Houston market in the RCLCO study.
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      <title>Summerwood residents can earn a business degree close to home</title>
      <description><![CDATA[With the recent opening of the Lone Star College-Atascocita Center on W. Lake Houston Parkway, Summerwood now offers everything from Pre-K to Bachelor’s degrees only minutes from home.

The newest offering at LSC-Atascocita Center is a Bachelor’s in Business Administration degree in General Business, offered through a partnership with the University of Houston-Downtown. Students can complete the coursework entirely at the LSC-Atascocita Center campus, located at 15903 West Lake Houston Parkway, only a few miles from Summerwood. 
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      <title>Summerwood soars in midyear sales report</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A midyear report from Metrostudy holds good news for Houston’s real estate market, with overall new-home sales up by 8% in 15 of the city’s largest master-planned communities. The news was even better for Summerwood and other Houston developments being created by Newland Communities.]]></description>
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      <title>Humble ISD named to AP Achievement List by College Board</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Here’s the latest good news about Summerwood schools: the Humble Independent School District is one of fewer than 400 school districts in the nation named to the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Achievement List. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:17:27 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Humble ISD schools announce dates to register for 2011-2012 kindergarten classes</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Humble ISD schools have announced dates to register for 2011-2012 kindergarten classes. Many schools also have scheduled open houses, or kindergarten roundups, in April and May to help parents learn about the kindergarten program. Students must be 5 years old or older on Sept. 1 to be in kindergarten. After-school care is available for a fee at all Humble ISD schools through the YMCA. Monday, Aug. 22 will be the first day of school.]]></description>
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      <title>Summerwood ranks as Humble’s top-selling community in national study</title>
      <description><![CDATA[With 155 new homes sold in 2010, Summerwood ranked as the number one selling master-planned community (MPC) in the Humble/Northeast Houston submarket, according to a report from RCLCO, a national real estate advisory firm. Nationally, Summerwood ranked 19th on RCLCO’s top 20 list, and placed sixth among Houston region developments for new-home sales in 2010.]]></description>
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      <title>Summerwood model home village growing again</title>
      <description><![CDATA[From March 7th to April 30th, 2011, visitors to Summerwood will receive a free $15 gift card for registering at the Summerwood New Home Information Center, located in the middle of a Model Home Village showcasing decorated model homes priced from the $120,000s to $400,000s in this wooded master-planned community.  

This gift card is offered to celebrate the opening of the Sam Houston Tollway Northeast, which makes Summerwood’s location at the tollway and W. Lake Houston Parkway even easier to reach from Downtown Houston. Also in celebration of the tollway opening, homebuyers purchasing new homes in Summerwood between March 7th and April 30th will receive a $500 gift card.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:22:27 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Fasten Your Seatbelt: New Toll Road Opening Up Northeast Houston</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Developers in Northeast Houston will get a significant boost from the opening of the new section of the Sam Houston Tollway in late February.
The northeast side has grown steadily over the years, but never really caught fire with high-velocity new development. The new tollway expansion may be enough to finally ignite a conflagration of home building and development retail and commercial space.
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      <title>Summerwood location now even more convenient with Sam Houston Tollway opening</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Summerwood’s location at the Sam Houston Tollway Northeast and W. Lake Houston Parkway from “very good” to “great” with the opening of the road’s final section from U.S. 59 North to just past U.S. 90. 

With three lanes now open in each direction, commuters can now drive the entire 13-mile stretch of the tollway between U.S. 59 North and U.S. 90 without making a single stop for traffic lights. Previously, motorists encountered 10 stoplights each way.
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      <title>Newland Communities CEO Receives Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award</title>
      <description><![CDATA[HUMBLE, TX – January 12, 2011 – Bob McLeod, Chief Executive Officer of Newland Communities, the country’s largest privately held land development company and the developer of the Summerwood master-planned community in Humble, will receive the 12th Annual Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award tomorrow at the National Association of Home Builders International Builders Show in Orlando. ]]></description>
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      <title>Newland Communities named “Developer of the Year”  by BUILDER AND DEVELOPER magazine</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In an article headlined “The nation’s master of master-planned communities,” BUILDER AND DEVELOPER magazine announced its selection of Newland Communities as its 2010 “Developer of the Year.”

The developer of Summerwood and three other major communities in the Houston market, Newland Communities has succeeded by focusing on strong housing markets such as Houston, stated Kristen Eichenmuller, the magazine’s editor.
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:27:48 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Houston Economy Remains Strong, GHP report concludes</title>
      <description><![CDATA[While nobody likes to pay higher prices at the pump, most Houstonians realize that higher oil prices are good for the local economy. That’s why the Greater Houston Partnership devoted the first two pages of its new “Houston – The Economy at a Glance” report to the state of the world oil market – and the news is good for Houston.]]></description>
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      <title>Summerwood Commute Gets Even Shorter</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Summerwood already boasts one of the quickest commutes to downtown Houston among area master-planned communities, and the transformation of Beltway 8 into an express tollway with a stoplight-free connection to U.S. 59 North will soon make that commute even shorter.]]></description>
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      <title>New Summerwood schools receive  Exemplary, Recognized ratings from TEA</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Summerwood schools fared very well in the new 2010 Accountability Ratings just released by the Texas Education Agency.]]></description>
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      <title>Summerwood H-E-B Market Now Open!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The much-anticipated H-E-B at 12680 West lake Houston Parkway lends customers a first-class shopping experience that is both fresh and convenient, combining the best of H-E-B food and drug stores.  The result is a local destination that brings area families unrivaled freshness, quality, variety and outstanding service while keeping H-E-B’s commitment to offer the lowest possible prices.  ]]></description>
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      <title>Brighton townhomes now selling from the $119,950s in Summerwood</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Brighton Homes is now offering low-maintenance townhomes priced from $119,950 in Summerwood, and buyers who contract to purchase a new townhome in this wooded community by June 30, 2010 will receive a free washer, dryer, refrigerator and two-inch blinds on all operable windows.
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      <title>Downed by Hurricane Ike, Summerwood tree gets new life</title>
      <description><![CDATA[With its silent invitation to sit and relax, a rustic bench next to the Summerwood Information Center offers little clue of its turbulent origin.
 
Two years ago, the bench had an earlier life – as a 70-year-old red oak tree in Summerwood, a heavily wooded community northeast of downtown Houston, offering new homes and townhomes priced from the $110,000s to $400,000s.
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      <description><![CDATA[Opened to welcome home shoppers to this Humble Independent School District Community, offering new homes priced from the $160,000s to $400,000s, this cottage-style information center is surrounded by a landscaped park, inviting visitors to relax with its playground and log bench.]]></description>
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      <title>Atascocita ranks as Texas' fastest-growing city</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is no small feat to be named as the fastest-growing city in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, but that was the distinction recently earned by Atascocita, whose growth has been fueled by the success of master-planned communities such as Summerwood. ]]></description>
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