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The companies have proved to be masters of agility in a down market.
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D.R. Horton retained its title as the largest home builder in the country in 2011.
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Things were definitely moving in the right direction for multifamily starts last year.
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CEO pay deals get right-sized under intense shareholder scrutiny.
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Private home builders draw on 2011 insights to drive momentum into 2012.
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Big Builder grades the performance of the 13 largest publicly held builders in the country.
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Last year's market share was the highest in a decade for the Builder 100–ranked companies.
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The builder has partnered with investors to create a real estate investment trust that will buy up distressed single-family homes and rent them out.
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But economists and analysts cite many factors that could impede growth.
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Based on its performance in 2011, your company may be eligible for this year’s BUILDER 100 and Next 100, the industry’s premier list of the nation’s largest home builders.
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Columnist shares parting thoughts on competition, people, and leadership.
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David Weekley Homes reenters the Phoenix market with the acquisition of the bulk of local builder T.W. Lewis' lots. Plus, a look at the markets where the biggest builders' volume and share might not add up to good operating leverage.
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With the final issue of BIG BUILDER, a heartfelt thanks to the home building community.
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I've been thinking more about my blog post from last week on the continued tightness in the mortgage markets and how those constraints have been driving a steady increase in all-cash purchases of homes since 2007. In fact, in February and March 2011, those transactions, as a percentage of all known...
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Lennar Corp., Miami (NYSE:LEN) on Wednesday said it hired Jay Mantz, who headed the real estate investment unit at Morgan Stanley, to join the company's Rialto Capital Land Management unit as president. Lennar also said Bill Landis, who joined Rialto in 2008 as its chief investment officer, would...
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Applications for home mortgages rose sharply last week, with the Mortgage Bankers Association's Market Composite Index jumping 9.3%, seasonally adjusted, from a week earlier, the MBA said Wednesday. The gain was driven primarily by refinancings, with the Refinance Index up 11.2% from the previous...
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Little more than a week and change remains before the loan limits on mortgages eligible to be purchased by the GSEs or insured by the FHA reset Oct. 1. Despite a clarion call from the NAHB and other industry groups like the NAR to lobby for an extension of the current higher limits, the efforts may...
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A three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday allowed a class-action suit against eight large home builders over the impact of risky mortgage lending on homeowners in planned communities to proceed. A district court judge had earlier dismissed the suit, ruling that the...
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The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted 7 to 3 in favor of 'Operation Twist' in an attempt to "put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates and help make broader financial conditions more accommodative," according to the committee's statement. Stock markets, which had...
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Applications for mortgage loans increased 0.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis last week from one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Associations weekly report on its Market Composite Index, MBA said Wednesday. On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 25.2% compared with the previous...