Model Homes

  • A Toll Brothers House Hits the Big Screen—Again

    The home will serve as the backdrop for a couple whose teapot spits out cash.

     
  • KB Acquires 1,920 Lots in San Antonio

    KB Home (NYSE: KBH) said Wednesday it will purchase 623 finished home sites and 1,297 future home sites from Fieldstone Homes in 11 San Antonio-area communities. Fieldstone Homes, a private homebuilder based in Southern California, announced that it was leaving the San Antonio market earlier this...

     
  • KB Aquires 1,920 Lots in San Antonio

    KB Home (NYSE: KBH) said Wednesday it will purchase 623 finished home sites and 1,297 future home sites from Fieldstone Homes in 11 San Antonio-area communities. Fieldstone Homes, a private homebuilder based in Southern California, announced that it was leaving the San Antonio market earlier this...

     
  • LGI Homes Expands to Phoenix

    LGI Homes, the upstart start-up builder in Texas that has climbed quickly to No. 58 on the BUILDER 100 list, is expanding its unique business model to Phoenix, Ariz.

     
  • Home Buyers Tour Florida Models Without Leaving Home

    A year-old website offers online video walkthroughs of 400 houses.

     
  • A Land of Full Employment and Plans for a Great Park

    A smattering of housing and economic-related news items from across the country.

     
  • Builders Explore New Approaches to Model Homes

    Expensive merchandising has given way to more cost-effective alternatives in the downturn, but 45% of builders still plan to construct models in the next six months, according to Builder Partnerships survey.

     
  • Former Beazer Accounting Chief Indicted

    Michael Rand, Beazer Homes USA's former chief accounting officer, was indicted by a grand jury, arrested, and is being held on 11 counts on federal charges related to wrongful accounting practices and attempts to conceal them from investigators.

     
  • Paulson Unit Wins TOUSA Auction

    Hedge fund manager John Paulson's RERF Acqusition has apparently emerged the victor in the bidding for the western assets of the bankrupt TOUSA, Inc. It was the only bidder.

     
  • Hedge Fund Bids for TOUSA West Assets

    Noted hedge fund manager John Paulson's company is the leading bidder for bankrupt TOUSA Homes' western region assets, offering $42.4 million for 8,277 un-started lots and 22 model homes in Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada. Paulson's interest in the land has been a poorly kept secret. The company...