How much referral discount are they giving to realtors? Derby Hill is an area that I’d eventually be interested in once our lease ends around Spring 2008.

We stopped by IvyGate at 4S Ranch, and they have quite a few houses priced at $1.6M and above ($2.2m+ for model homes). Hard to image who’d buy them. They only gave about $1.5/sq floor allowance — for a $1.6m home? No landscaping allowance either. So a big yard is just a lot of more money and/or work. Crazy. But I’ve never bought a new house, so maybe that’s the norm.