More focus on customers, less focus on opening new markets inform builders' business models today.
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Gerald D. Kelfer is retiring and will be replaced by Jon M. Donnell in mid-November.
But uncertainties such as rising mortgage rates and impending foreclosures leave a strong recovery in 2010 in doubt.
A brutal housing recession raises questions about standard operating procedures in the home building business.
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But some companies still don't seem to fully believe in the power of their Web sites as promotional tools.
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NVR acquires 139 finished lots from Beazer for a song.
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Dominion Homes announced that it intends to take the company private in a 65 cents per share deal that was announced last Friday after the market closed.
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Dominion Homes announced late last week that the company's board of directors appointed Douglas G. Borror as president and William G. Cornely to COO effective Dec. 31. Jeffrey Croft, the currently president and COO, is leaving the Dublin, Ohio-based builder to "pursue other interests."
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In the face of controversy that its mortgage origination practices that have led to a high rate of foreclosures, Dublin, Ohio-based builder Dominion Homes announced it will form a mortgage unit with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.