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Currently, foreclosures--and whether they will or will not continue apace--appear the most significant threat to the overall housing market. When asked when the inventory overhang of foreclosed properties would be cleared,
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With the legal issues that plagued it for more than two years assuaged, Beazer's next great task is similar to that of other builders--return to profitability. Nobody's expecting that to have happened in the company's third quarter, which ended June 30. Analysts are estimating losses ranging from...
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- Builders and designers relying on Chief Architect to help sell upgrades in kitchens and other parts of the house.
- Sage Software to ship Estimating for Master BUILDER in April.
During the rise of the internet era in the late 1990s, while the automotive, aerospace, and most other industries moved forward with B2B e-commerce, BuildNet, the building industry's e-commerce play, failed miserably. The result was that home building lagged far behind most other industries in this...
One positive aspect of the housing slowdown is that home builders now have the time to evaluate and ultimately deploy technology that can make their operations more efficient.
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- A new Web-based estimating system offers builders a powerfuland affordable combination of estimating and purchasing features.
- The new version of FastTrack Schedule features Mindjet's MindManager.
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- Millions of homeowners could face higher taxes in 2011, unless Congress acts to repeal or reform the estate tax.
- The Building Systems Councils of the NAHB releases a free publication as a resource for builders and buyers of panelized homes.
- The president of Magleby Cos., is named the NAHB's...
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HOME BUILDERS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO understand HomeFront, the sales and warranty management software from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada–based Zybertech, should think of it as a pair of bookends that run on either side of BuilderMT's purchasing system and the Sage Timberline Office accounting and...
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- Sage Software and Innovaya release a new product to lets builders run an estimate from a 3-D AutoCAD file.
- BellSouth and The Weather Channel now offer a new service that provides alerts and warnings of severe weather.
FOR YEARS, BUILDERS USED A DIGITIZER TO transfer electronic linear counts for the sizes and materials they would need for a job into a digital format for use in an estimating program. But the digitizer, which essentially served as an electronic note pad for the linear information, had its drawbacks.