Builder 100

• Builder 100 Over The Years

  At 30, BUILDER looks back at America’s largest builders and how they got to where they are today.

• The 2007 Builder 100 Listing

  The interactive Builder 100 & Next 100 lists.

• The Builder 100: A Deep Dive

  A revealing look into the Builder 100 results, including an analysis of historical trends.

• Modular & Manufactured Homes: Choppy Waters

  After working through nearly a decade of downturn, the factory-built housing sector now finds itself swamped by the same factors that sank...

• Multifamily 50: Lap of Luxury

  Despite the credit crunch and broad economic woes, top multifamily builders are sitting pretty.

2006 BUILDER 100 Articles

• The 2006 BUILDER 100 Revealed

  For the first time since 2002, the top three companies on the Builder 100 list traded places. While D.R. Horton remains on top, Lennar Corp...

• Rising To The Challenge

  While BUILDER 100 companies' efforts to diversify across the country left some of them exposed to more faltering markets instead of...

• Reality Check

  Dan Ryan started Frederick, Md.–based Dan Ryan Builders in 1990, so the recent downturn in the housing market was his first. During the...

• Acquisition Season

  As the cooling-off period in the housing market continues through 2007, conditions may improve for mergers and acquisitions among the...

• BUILDER 100 Snapshots

  The top 100 builders from 2006.

• Next 100 Snapshots

  The BUILDER 100 companies weren't the only builders growing quickly during 2005. The average Next 100 company closed 495 homes during the...

• Problem Solved

  Three years ago, Star Development Corp. decided to try modular housing rather than continue with stick building for its infill projects...

• Apartment Boom

  It's good to be an apartment developer again. Rental builders across the country breathed a collective sigh of relief last year as the once...

• BUILDER 100: Inventory Problems

  Between spec homes that didn't sell, investors who canceled due to market conditions, and move-up home buyers who couldn't sell their...

2005 BUILDER 100 Articles

• Staying Power

  Over the years, more than a thousand home and apartment building companies have ranked among the top 100 builders in our annual list. But...

• In Command

  It seems safe to say that an increase is no longer in doubt. When that story was written, the BUILDER 100's market share stood at 24...

• Consistent Performers

  With home building operations in 77 markets across 26 states—which generated 51,383 new homes last year—D.R. Horton can get a good read on...

• BUILDER 100 Snapshots

  The top 100 builders from 2006.

• Standing Firm

  When it closed 250 homes two years ago, Altmann-Ott Homes ranked as Reno, Nev.'s fifth-largest builder. But this western market of 200,000...

• Next 100 Snapshots

  Next 100 builders did not fare as well in the soft housing market as their larger brethren in the 2007 BUILDER 100.

• Modular Metamorphosis

  “You hate to win that way,” says one HUD-code producer, summarizing the sentiments of many manufacturers who saw a bounce in HUD-code unit...

• Condo Craze

  Without a doubt, 2005 was the year to be a condo developer. Just look at the Novare Group's year-end performance. The Atlanta-based condo...

• Steven Petruska

  For Pulte, the 1990s were characterized by the company's feverish expansion of its geographical footprint. In that decade, Pulte's market...

• Jeff Mezger

  Jeff Mezger built his first house when he was about 12 years old. He got the wood and steel from his dad, a Chicago-area builder.

• Barry Mccarron

  When Barry McCarron started with Hovnanian in 1984, the company was using a mere eight floor plans in New Jersey to build townhomes and...

• Dan Fulton

  In the late 1980s, Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Co. was delivering 5,000 homes per year. But over the next several years, the Federal Way, Wash...

• Alan Goldsticker

  Alan Goldsticker likens his Indianapolis division to a “good, solid growth fund.” Old reliable, he calls it.

2004 BUILDER 100 Articles

• Survival of the Fit

  NO STEROIDS HERE. That's not to say that the BUILDER 100 companies didn't enjoy the effects of natural performance enhancers last year...

• Factory-Built Housing: Modular Makeover

  The market for manufactured homes has been shattered in recent years, because low interest rates and financing have stolen some of their...

• Multifamily Housing: Returning to Form

  The question that's on everyone's mind is when to expect a resurgence in market-rate apartment building.

• High Jump

  IN 2001, OFFICIALS AT M.D.C. Holdings raised the bar for their Denver-based company when they set it on an ambitious course to double its...

• Brains and Brawn

  LAST YEAR, FIRST HOME Builders of Florida was struggling with too much of a good thing. Sales were soaring, and, coupled with significant...

2003 BUILDER 100 Articles

• Going For Broke

  While the overall housing market increased just 8 percent, as measured by total starts, the BUILDER 100 delivered 393,178 U.S. homes, a 14...

• Staying In The Game

  Numbers provide only a partial picture of the Next 100 companies, many of which are more dynamic, creative, financially sophisticated, and...

• After The Bust

  In the last couple years, the "monsoon" of bad news hitting manufactured home builders has been especially devastating.

• Waiting For A Better Hand

  Multifamily builders kept -- and keep -- building, increasingly so, even in some areas where demand has been lackluster.

• Playing The Percentages

  In real estate, some regions constantly pay off for builders, while others struggle to break even.

Lists and Rankings By Year

• 2007 Builder 100

• 2006 Builder 100

• 2005 Builder 100

• 2004 Builder 100

• 2003 Builder 100