Lakewood Homes offers a quality product at an excellent price, a winning combination that offers superior value for our buyers. Of course many buyers claim to offer value, but Lakewood Homes has an efficient system in place to ensure it. It's called value engineering. It provides a method to analyze every component of a home to determine what elements add to the home's value and what can be eliminated or scaled back. "We focus on what buyers really want," says Lakewood president Buz Hoffman, "and eliminate things that add unnecessary cost."

In addition to superior value, Lakewood homeowners benefit from careful planning and wonderful neighborhoods. Many of our communities are built with clubhouses and recreation centers including swimming pool, volleyball, tot lots and parks. Lakewood Homes has been recognized for their efforts to keep natural areas and open space available to the public.

In the past eleven years, Lakewood Homes has been a homebuilder for ever 8,000 homes in the Chicago area, and has achieved a remarkable record of customer satisfaction with our homes, our communities and our service. Click on the Testimonials section to see some of the letters we've received from satisfied homeowners or click on the J.D. Power website. For the fourth year in a row, new homebuyers have recognized Lakewood Homes as the highest ranking homebuilder in customer satisfaction in the Chicago market. According to the released J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Customer Satisfaction Study SM, Lakewood Homes led the survey with the highest rankings in customer service, home readiness, professional/knowledge sales staff, and was recognized as number one in price and value.

Lakewood has received many industry awards such as Builder of the Year, but our real audience is the families who purchase and live in Lakewood homes. More than any awards from the industry or the media, our buyers' satisfaction is the measure of our success.

SM 1Disclaimer: J.D. Power and Associates 2002 New-Home Customer Satisfaction Study SM is based on responses from 56,000 buyers of newly constructed homes in ten of the largest U.S. markets. Chicago market covers Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties. www.jdpower.com.