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  • Ara Hovnanian

    Ara Hovnanian is CEO of Hovnanian Enterprises, the 6th ranked company in the 2007 Builder 100.

  • Ho, Ho, Hoo-ah!

    Three dozen wounded Marines got to spend the holidays with their families, thanks to an $18,000 donation from the employees of Carlsbad, Calif.–based Barratt American.

  • Trend 20

    IT MIGHT HURT A LOT of builders' feelings, but sometimes the houses and the great locations and the upgrades kind of run together, says Jimmy Dunnett, Atlanta district sales manager for Duluth, Ga.–based Bowen Family Homes. A builder will stand out by creating a superior experience, and that means...

  • Trend 14

    SALES CENTERS AND model home complexes will increasingly become places where prospective homeowners will go for decorating tips, an easy but elegant gourmet recipe, or instructions on how to plant a container garden. They saw it on HGTV or the DIY channel last week; now they want to see how it...

  • Trend 8

    HERE ARE SOME WORDS to catch the attention of prospective buyers in 2006: commute, transportation, close to shopping. Richard Gollis, principal of San Francisco–based real estate consultants The Concord Group, says that the amount of time individuals spend commuting has become so onerous, it's...

  • Park Donation

    Palo Alto, Calif.–based SummerHill Homes recently donated $25,000 to the Friends of the Palo Alto Parks, a nonprofit dedicated to enriching and beautifying the city's local parks. The gift served as a catalyst to kick off a fundraising campaign for the play structure at Heritage Park, a new...

  • Room to Grow

    Houston-based Royce Builders has come to the aid of a young family whose size more than doubled after the arrival of identical quadruplets. The builder joined with four other Houston businesses to give the family a new house, furniture, and a van, as well as car seats, strollers, high chairs, and...

  • Bumper Crop

    Builders looking to hire recent college graduates with real estate degrees have more candidates from which to choose, thanks to an increase in the number of colleges offering the degrees. Nationwide, 63 accredited colleges have real estate degree programs, up from about 30 a decade ago. Among the...