The recession proves the public builder model is superior for survival, though it does...
The founder of William Lyon Homes has passed the CEO title to his son. The General...
Mountain Real Estate Capital makes its biggest investment into a builder or developer...
The builder rebrands and brings in new home plans to appeal to high-end niche buyers.
Most public home builders are selling more houses and making profits again this year.
Big Builder grades the performance of the 13 largest publicly held builders in the...
Private home builders draw on 2011 insights to drive momentum into 2012.
CEO pay deals get right-sized under intense shareholder scrutiny.
As unemployment worries ease, more buyers are at least kicking the tires again.
June 19, 2013
Congressional proposals to overhaul America's immigration system include changes to temporary foreign worker programs. Brookings fellow Jill Wilson presents data on the numbers, occupations and geographical distribution of temporary workers, plus a look at proposed policy changes to balance the... Read More
The president praised Ben S. Bernanke's leadership of the Federal Reserve but suggested that he could nominate a new Fed chairman later this year. New York Times staffer Binyamin Appelbaum reports. Read More
Washington Post staffer Lori Montgomery reports that nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the "Gang of Eight" Senate immigration reform bill would reduce federal deficits by nearly $200 billion over 10 years. Read More
Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 3.88%, down from 3.93% at this same time last week. Read More
Fast Company's Zak Stone reports on new ways to tally traffic volume ... of bicyclists. Read More
Movoto's Randy Nelson has figured out how much time-and money-it would take to print a house the same size as yours. Spoiler: It's a lot. Read More
MarketWatch's Robert Schroeder reports that student loan debt has nearly doubled in the past five years, according to a congressional report released Tuesday, less than two weeks before interest rates on federally backed student loans are set to jump to 6.8% from 3.4%. Read More
June 18, 2013
California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina and Georgia show biggest gains. Multifamily permits also are up across all regions. For more in-depth new-home data from Metrostudy, a sister company of Builder, click here. Read More
For the first time in seven years, most U.S. homebuilders are optimistic about sales, a sign that construction could help drive stronger economic growth. Read More
Ditch your handheld calculator for one of these mobile apps for all of your jobsite calculations. Read More
Start, permits and completions for May are out this morning from the Census Bureau. We feature Calculated Risk blogger Bill McBride's graphic and preliminary commentary, which notes that multifamily movement sparked the upward thrust as single-family starts remain subdued. This owes in part to home... Read More
The black sheen on newly sealed pavement--whether your driveway, store parking lot or school playground--is prompting a rising number of cities, states and businesses to ban a commonly used product. Read More
Portland cement can't match the staying power of its Roman predecessor, and researchers now know why. Read More
Growth in the New York state manufacturing sector picked back up in June, but the details were less encouraging as new orders and employment fell to their lowest levels in five months, a report from the New York Federal Reserve showed on Monday. Read More
Houzz contributor and architect John Dorman posts on how architects use a variety of ways to engage our senses, especially with light. Read More
The latest trend in one real estate market has homeowners looking up. Some are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for air rights, reports Heather Graf, KVUE TV. Read More
Atlantic Cities' Richard Florida looks at cities data that show that, for venture capital, the Bay Area remains at the top, but several cities are starting to catch up. Read More
Redfin's Tim Ellis posts on Redfin's latest tally of supplies of for-sale inventory in its market universe. Here's a line-up of metros with the biggest deltas, up or down, for supply. Demand seems to be holding up as well. Read More
Bloomberg/ BusinessWeek's Nadja Brandt reports that California home prices rose by the most in three decades as a shortage of houses on the market spurred competition among buyers, per the California Association of Realtors. Read More