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  • Lumber Supplies Remain Tight for Foreseeable Future

    With dimensional lumber predicted to experience continuing shortages and rising prices—thanks to increasing marketplace demand—industry observers are encouraging dealers to keep enough inventory on hand for jobs sold over the next quarter.

  • The New American Home 2013

    The annual idea home co-sponsored by BUILDER and the NAHB celebrates its 30th year with a truly unique approach to luxury living.

  • 84 Lumber Fights Four-Year Battle Over Claims of Shoddy Construction

    A builder’s ongoing four-year dispute with 84 Lumber over allegedly shoddy construction has killed a personal as well as a business relationship.

  • Land: Home Builders' Four-Letter Word

    As "signs of life" suggest a housing recovery has begun, it will be home builders' strategies and tactics to acquire new building lots that will determine their continued sales success.

  • Modular Manufacturers Look Past Soft 2011 for Growth

    Leaders expect builders to seek prefab solutions as framers could be in short supply.

  • Editor's Notes: Is For-Rent For Real?

    The answer depends on the answer to another question: Is the downturn cyclical or secular?

  • Cover Story: The Road Goes On

    Mountain House?living proof that it's possible to rebuild the American Dream out of the stuff of nightmares.

  • On the Call: KB Home

    KB Home's impressive 40% year-over-year order growth during its fiscal third quarter had industry analysts during a related earnings call Friday asking what the company was doing right to achieve those gains even as its profitability slipped. (Click

  • The Wild, Wild World of Mortgage Financing

    Little more than a week and change remains before the loan limits on mortgages eligible to be purchased by the GSEs or insured by the FHA reset Oct. 1. Despite a clarion call from the NAHB and other industry groups like the NAR to lobby for an extension of the current higher limits, the efforts may...

  • Ninth-Circuit Court Allows Suit Against Big Builders to Proceed

    A three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday allowed a class-action suit against eight large home builders over the impact of risky mortgage lending on homeowners in planned communities to proceed. A district court judge had earlier dismissed the suit, ruling that the...