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• New Single-Family Construction Spending Unchanged in December

  Total value of residential construction, including multifamily, fell to $252.2 billion in 2009, a 28% annual drop.

• Video: Social Media Essentials

  Builder Online’s Alison Rice talks with Dina Gundersen of Monte Hewett Homes about how and why small builders can integrate video into their marketing efforts.

• IBS 2010: Smaller Crowds, More Optimism

  Between 50,000 and 55,000 people attended this year’s show in Las Vegas.

• Economists Offer Restrained Projections For 2010

  NAHB’s David Crowe: ‘The builders who are here are the survivors.’

• Social Media: An Effective Way For Builders to Connect With Women Home Buyers

  IBS speaker: ‘They joined your Facebook page. They want to talk to you.’

• 6 Ways For Builders to Beat REOs

  Speakers give strategies for competing against foreclosures.

• 10 Things to Do at IBS

  How to make the most of your visit to Las Vegas for the 2010 International Builders Show.

• Construction Spending Remains Flat in November

  New single-family construction inches up 1.3%.

• Pace of Pending Home Sales Slows in November

  NAR reports a 16% drop in index, which measures contracts signed for existing homes.

• Sales of New Homes Dive 11.3% in November

  Median sales price stands at $217,400, which is $45,000 higher than pricing of existing homes last month.