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As sales sank and cancellations crested last year, production builders insisted they could stem margin erosion by exacting concessions from their trade partners. And through the early months of 2007, suppliers confirmed that builders were pressuring them for price breaks; although, with some...
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Retiring baby boomers are shaping the market for new homes in profound ways; the Livable Communities Awards program is announced during February's International Builders' Show; and the NAHB and AARP are looking for applicants that reflect the full diversity of the home building industry.
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The flexible, polymer pipe known as PEX (cross-linked polyethylene) has gained popularity among home builders in recent years as a cost competitive alternative to traditional rigid piping materials. While PEX water supply systems can offer a significant savings on labor and materials, some hurdles...
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One positive aspect of the housing slowdown is that home builders now have the time to evaluate and ultimately deploy technology that can make their operations more efficient.
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If you were among the many visitors at this year's International Builders' Show in February, there is one question you should have been asking yourself: What's next for the major appliances category?
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By March, Steve Soriano could see the tsunami that the non-prime mortgage crisis was creating. Soriano is executive vice president of Robson Communities, which targets high-end active adult prospects who, he says, are having a harder time selling their homes because buyers can't secure financing...
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TEMPORARY HOUSING HAS A WAY OF BECOMING permanent, as evidenced by the fact that many South Florida residents still live in FEMA trailers more than a decade after Hurricane Andrew. An as-yet-unknown number of Katrina and Rita evacuees in Louisiana may sidestep that fate and return to their former...
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A DEMONSTRATION HOME IN Paterson, N.J., by the chemical company BASF recently became the first house on the Eastern seaboard to receive an LEED-Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The LEED designation means the house is 80 percent more energy efficient than the average home.
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- Chairman and CEO of Trammel Crow Residential donates $5 million to the Urban Land Institute to create a center for work-force housing.
- Emergency #811 to be operational in late April. The number will be used for builders who need to quickly contact local utility companies in case of...
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Home throughout the 20th century to bohemians, revolutionaries, beats, hipsters, and artists of every stripe and genre, Greenwich Village earned a reputation as the place to live for the avant-garde and the coolest of the cool. It's hard to imagine now, but it was once exactly what its name...
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In the old days, internet-based leads that came into Bowen Family Homes' Web site would go to Internet director Kelly Kenton Fink, who would parcel them out to the on-site sales agents. Busy with flesh-and-blood prospects standing in front of them, the sales agents often set these leads to the side...
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In the suburbs of Washington, a student housing tower gives new life to a development that's been more than 50 years in the making.
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In The Gulch, Nashville's newest redevelopment area, a nifty loft project rises up through an old warehouse.
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In this world of cookie-cutter projects and look-alike communities, it's hard to claim the mantle of first. But each of the three mixed-use projects profiled here can make legitimate claims to being unique. Club Casa Mina is the first private-equity residence club—a fractional—to hit Santa Barbara...
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Do you have any idea what's in your dumpsters? You should. All of that debris is costing you money.
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One Atlanta builder uses collaboration software and improved sawing technology to solve a perennial challenge:to deliver flooring systems that are accurate and on time and can be backed up by warranty in the event of a defect.
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This April, The Drees Co. should complete the rollout, to all 13 of its divisions, of a program that allows its trade partners and site superintendents to submit field purchase orders (FPOs), with changes to original POs, through a Web-based portal, payment for which is vouchered automatically...
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A slower pace, streamlined choices, and more education lead to higher options sales at Ryland Homes in Phoenix.
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Spring is always an important time for home builders, as nearly 40 percent of new-home sales take place between March and June. This year's spring season is more important than ever, as Wall Street, economists, and the industry at-large try to gauge whether the home building industry can bounce...
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THE UNSUSTAINABLE HOUSING BOOM THAT began in the latter part of 2003 and ran into the early part of 2006 was fueled by extraordinarily stimulative financial market conditions, including a historically low interest rate structure in the U.S. We also saw a progressive relaxation of mortgage lending...