Custom Builders

  • Flexibility Equals Survival For California Custom Builder

    Froehlich Signature Homes diversifies into apartment construction, office condominiums, and foreclosure rehabs.

     
  • Vista Dunes Courtyard Homes, La Quinta, Calif.

    2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Affordable housing project; Green/Sustainable community

     
  • A Young Canadian Custom Builder Sets Sights On Growth

    Edmonton-based Axiom Homes wants to transport its tight fee-management business model to the United States.

     
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    America's Best Builders 2009: Estes Builders

    The Washington State builder may be a small operation, but it has adopted best practices of volume builders

     
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    Struggling Builders Expand their Construction Activities to Remodeling and Commercial Work

    Struggling builders turn to remodeling and commercial work, some for the long haul.

     
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    Q&A with Haven Custom Homes' CEO Jerry Smalley.

    “We have to be far more precise than a site builder due to how we assemble our units."

     
  • New-Home Sales Booster: Give a How-To Book To Your Custom Home Buyers

    Orlando custom builder says book has turned prospects into customers.

     
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    Survival Instinct

    Chris Coleman doesn't expect his housing market to get well anytime soon. As president of Northfield, Ill.–based The Dearborn-Buckingham Group, he assumes, only half facetiously, that his company “will not sell a single home” in 2008. But don't count Coleman among the industry's doomsayers, because...

     
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    Biggie Smalls

    SMALL BUILDERS USED TO BE OVERLOOKED by builder software companies, but that's changed as Constellation HomeBuilder Systems seeks to revive BuildSoft; BuildLinks and Corecon keep making improvements; and products such as the Web-based cost-estimating system 6x6 Builder, by 6x6-Builder.com, hit the...

     
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    Builder 100 - Alan B. Levan

    Alan B. Levan of Levitt Corp is profiled as part of the 2006 Builder 100.

     
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    The Right Site

    In the late 1990s, Jim Norman, President of Norman Building & Design, a custom builder who designs and builds about 12 homes a year in Bend, Ore., knew he needed a Web site, but he never imagined how powerful a marketing tool it would become.

     
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    Flex Time

    The term custom home conjures up a certain image in the minds of many consumers—a large home, for starters. They may envision a palatial exterior, soaring interior spaces, exquisite finishes, every amenity, fabulous kitchens and baths, to-die-for outdoor entertainment areas. But mostly they think...

     
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    A Happy Ending

    ANY NUMBER OF CLICHÉD SUPERLATIVES COULD be used to describe the Washington development team of Jim Gibson and Sam Dunn: heroes, white knights, last-minute saviors, men among men. The terms would all be appropriate for a duo who recently wrapped up a whopper of a NIMBY saga.

     
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    A Happy Ending

    Any number of clichÉd superlatives could be used to describe the Washington development team of Jim Gibson and Sam Dunn: heroes, white knights, last-minute saviors, men among men. The terms would all be appropriate for a duo who recently wrapped up a whopper of a NIMBY saga.

     
  • Making Connections

    AS PRESIDENT OF THE NAHB, I AM ALWAYS pleased to let members know about the products and professional services that we provide. Our mission is to serve the home building industry, and the career center and conferences mentioned below are proof positive that we are fulfilling that mission.

     
  • NAHB Briefs: June 2006

    - Housing industry expert Bill Webb releases instructive guide that shows how to maximize sales potential and profits in lean times. - NAHB's Building Systems Councils offer free brochure on the benefits of modular homes. - NAHB encourages members to take advantage of a free savings analysis...

     
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    Southern Comfort

    Follow the brick-paved walkway past the columns of Tennessee fieldstone, the wrought-iron fence wrapped in climbing jasmine, and the blooming crape myrtles. You'd almost swear the Craftsman-style door you're about to knock on is the entrance to a refurbished house in a historic part of town. And Ed...

     
  • Halfway House

    Structure Development Group in Woodland Hills, Calif. is carving a new market niche with its hybrid business model.

     
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    Space Wars

    HOME BUILDERS WORKING ON TEARDOWNS IN historic Myers Park in Charlotte, N.C., had a tough fight on their hands earlier this year when a neighborhood group brought up an arcane open-space rule that threatened to derail the lucrative teardown business for local custom home builders.

     
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    Leaders Of The Pack

    Given his success then, years ago, he was running Portland's top home building company, RMP Properties, closing almost 500 homes and grossing about $30 million annually. Then D.R. Horton came calling with the money Pollock thought he needed to grow the company into the regional powerhouse he'd...