M/I Homes Closed on 71 Acres in Horizon West to Develop Phase I of Encore at Ovation

139 Single Family Homes to Include New Product Line

ORLANDO, Fla., -- M/I Homes closed on 71 acres in early in January to develop 139 single-family home sites in Phase I of Encore at Ovation.  Site development will begin Feb.1 at the new neighborhood located near the intersection of Avalon Road (545) and Western Way / Flemming Road in Horizon West. 

David Byrnes, area president in the Orlando region, said 92 of the home sites will offer 50-foot widths for one and two-story homes ranging from 1,900 to 3,700 square feet of living area. 

The other 47 lots with 32-foot widths will offer the homebuilder’s new two-story, single family detached homes ranging from 1,800 to 2,800 square feet of living area.  

Byrnes said design of four new floor plans for the new product line is currently underway.  “The new line is innovative and we’re very excited about the diversity and potential of Encore at Ovation,” he said. 

Sales will begin by September at prices estimated to range from $290,000 to $450,000 including a 15-year structural warranty.

Development of all 139 homesites is expected to be complete by Q4, Byrnes added.

Located just north of Walt Disney World, Horizon West is one of the three fastest growing planned unit developments in the country featuring town centers surrounded by greenbelt and residential villages.  

Columbus, Ohio based-M/I Homes is currently building throughout 16 markets in the U.S. and has 16 active communities in Central Florida.

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About M/I Homes

M/I Homes, Inc. is one of the nation’s leading builders of single-family homes, having sold over 110,000 homes.  The Company’s homes are marketed and sold primarily under the trade names M/I Homes and Showcase Collection (exclusively by M/I Homes), and also currently are sold under the name Hans Hagen Homes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota market and Pinnacle Homes in the Detroit, Michigan market.  The Company has homebuilding operations in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Detroit, Michigan; Tampa, Sarasota and Orlando, Florida; Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, Texas; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; and the Virginia and Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.