Taylor Morrison Honored with Highly Coveted MAX Awards By Home Builders Association of Greater Austin

Online, July 11, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Taylor Morrison is pleased to congratulate sales associate Traci Garner, who was recently recognized by the Home Builders Association (HBA) of Greater Austin with the MAX Award for On-Site Sales Person of the Year. Taylor Morrison also received the MAX Award for Best Billboard for its Ladera ad campaign. The HBA hosted its annual Marketing and Advertising Excellence (MAX) Awards and Gala at the Renaissance Austin Hotel on May 11th and received more than 250 entries for this year's competition.

"We are so proud of Traci for winning this award," said Michael Lindeman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Her extraordinary professionalism and excellent customer service represent the best of the Taylor Morrison brand. We are also pleased to recognize our team at Ladera and the outstanding job they are doing there."

Traci Garner has been a Taylor Morrison employee for six years and currently works at the Crystal Falls sales office. Traci prides herself on interacting with customers in a friendly and honest manner, listening to what they want in a home and helping them make those dreams come true. With a background in marketing and advertising, she uses her skills to create custom visualizations for each customer, including virtual tours, photo printouts and personalized emails with photos and diagrams.

Ladera is one of Taylor Morrison's newest communities and is located in a premier Bee Cave location near Lake Travis and adjacent to 60-acre Bee Cave Central Park. With a variety of floor plans to choose from, Ladera offers three and four bedrooms homes starting from the low $300s.

About the MAX Awards
The MAX Awards are presented by the HBA of Greater Austin, which is made up of more than 800 home building industry firms. Since 1953, the Home Builders Association (HBA) of Greater Austin has served as the leading not-for-profit trade organization dedicated to residential construction and remodeling in Central Texas. The HBA works with government, public, business and community organizations in six counties - Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Travis and Williamson - to protect every family's right to home ownership. For more information, visit www.AustinHomeBuilders.com.

About Taylor Morrison
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Company operates in the U.S. under the Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes brands and in Canada under the Monarch brand. Taylor Morrison is a land developer and builder of single-family detached and attached homes serving a wide array of customers from first-time buyers and move-up families to luxury and active adult customers. Taylor Morrison divisions operate in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida and Texas. Darling Homes serves move-up families and luxury homebuyers in Texas. Monarch, Canada's oldest homebuilder builds homes for first-time buyers and move-up families in Toronto and Ottawa as well as high rise condominiums in Toronto.

For more information about Taylor Morrison, Darling Homes or Monarch, please visit www.taylormorrison.com, www.darlinghomes.com and www.monarchgroup.net.

For more information about Taylor Morrison communities in Austin, call 512-845-7350 or visit www.taylormorrison.com.