Learn Your XYB's: Builder's 2012 Concept Homes are a lesson in knowing what your buyers want and how to deliver it.
For empty-nesters, it’s about scaling down and having fun, with room for kids, grandkids, and friends to visit on holidays and weekends.
For a hard-working professional couple with active kids and a live-in relative, here's the ticket: a home that multitasks as hard as its owners do.
A young couple starting out needs room for a growing family, plus space for visiting friends and relatives.
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Institutions' expectations about profit and timeframes often don't match builders' needs.
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Three Florida companies share their success stories at IBS.
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Builders' attorneys hope the decision spreads to cases in other parts of the country.
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Offering incentives and discounts continues to be the status quo for most builders.
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They aren't having trouble finding workers now, but some worry about the availability and cost of skilled subs once market conditions improve.
The hard times that began in 2006 for the housing industry dragged on through 2008. That was especially true for those companies that compose our Builder 100, whose market share of total closings fell last year to 38.7 percent from 41.2 percent in 2007.