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With the final issue of BIG BUILDER, a heartfelt thanks to the home building community.
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Architect James Wentling offers suggestions for outfitting your homes to fit the new marketplace, ensuring buyers get everything they want at a price they can afford.
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If you've ever visited Texas, you know that the state?and everything in it?is really, really big. But did you know that Texas gets bigger? Every time it rains.
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These value-engineered plans conserve space and money while making the most of both.
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Roughly seven months since Toll Brothers' subsidiary Gibraltar Capital and Asset Management closed on its first deal, the distressed asset acquisition and management unit is at it again. Toll Brothers management announced Thursday that the wholly owned subsidiary partnered with Deutsche Bank to...
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The New York Times' Lynnley Browning makes a case for Nov. 11, 2010 as "rock bottom" for a 30-year fixed loan rate at 4.17%.
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Seemingly doomed to disappear after filing for bankruptcy protection, Orleans Homebuilders is pulling itself up out of the trenches.
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Architects Jerry Gloss and Robert Hidey offer advice on proper room proportions and smart value-engineering.
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A local builder gains market share with energy-efficient, cost-conscious starter homes.
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A onetime president of a $1 billion public home building division tries something new— “capital lite” home building.
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It's been little more than a month since Utah-based Fieldstone Communities underwent a leadership change that put former Irvine Co. executive William McFarland in the company's CEO seat. The transition, which also moved Chad Ogden, former regional president of the company's Texas and Utah...
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A combination of the green building groundswell and the new economy may bring OVE and advanced framing into common practice.
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Make recruitment and retention of your best performers a New Year's resolution for 2010.
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Regis Homes is averaging at least one sale per week in each of its four active communities.
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One of home building's own supply chain chiefs reacts to the industry's failure to adapt.
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Webinar explores value engineering strategies for today's smaller households and cash-strapped buyers.
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A federal judge and creditors have approved a plan that will bring LandSource Communities out of bankruptcy July 31, free of debt, with more than $90 million in cash, and a new name: Newhall Land Development. Lennar Corp. will hold a 15% stake.
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The plan to reorganize LandSource Communities and pull it out of bankruptcy has been amended once again, this time to sweeten the pot and make more cash available for balking creditors.
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Home builders reach for a rediscovery and re-engineering of value—both emotional and practical—in new-home ownership.
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