In the old days, internet-based leads that came into Bowen Family Homes' Web site would go to Internet director Kelly Kenton Fink, who would parcel them out to the on-site sales agents. Busy with flesh-and-blood prospects standing in front of them, the sales agents often set these leads to the side ...
In the suburbs of Washington, a student housing tower gives new life to a development that's been more than 50 years in the making.
In The Gulch, Nashville's newest redevelopment area, a nifty loft project rises up through an old warehouse.
Do you have any idea what's in your dumpsters? You should. All of that debris is costing you money.
One Atlanta builder uses collaboration software and improved sawing technology to solve a perennial challenge:to deliver flooring systems that are accurate and on time and can be backed up by warranty in the event of a defect.
This April, The Drees Co. should complete the rollout, to all 13 of its divisions, of a program that allows its trade partners and site superintendents to submit field purchase orders (FPOs), with changes to original POs, through a Web-based portal, payment for which is vouchered automatically witho...
A slower pace, streamlined choices, and more education lead to higher options sales at Ryland Homes in Phoenix.
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Spring is always an important time for home builders, as nearly 40 percent of new-home sales take place between March and June. This year's spring season is more important than ever, as Wall Street, economists, and the industry at-large try to gauge whether the home building industry can bounce back...
As sales sank and cancellations crested last year, production builders insisted they could stem margin erosion by exacting concessions from their trade partners. And through the early months of 2007, suppliers confirmed that builders were pressuring them for price breaks; although, with some notable...
TEMPORARY HOUSING HAS A WAY OF BECOMING permanent, as evidenced by the fact that many South Florida residents still live in FEMA trailers more than a decade after Hurricane Andrew. An as-yet-unknown number of Katrina and Rita evacuees in Louisiana may sidestep that fate and return to their former ne...
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- Chairman and CEO of Trammel Crow Residential donates $5 million to the Urban Land Institute to create a center for work-force housing.
- Emergency #811 to be operational in late April. The number will be used for builders who need to quickly contact local utility companies in case of emergency.
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Usually, where there's smoke, there's fire. But in the case of reports circulating the industry like wildfire in January, that Charlotte, N.C.–based Bank of America Corp. was in discussions to buy Calabasas, Calif.–based Countrywide Financial Corp., there was only smoke. Or so says Bank of America C...
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A DEMONSTRATION HOME IN Paterson, N.J., by the chemical company BASF recently became the first house on the Eastern seaboard to receive an LEED-Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The LEED designation means the house is 80 percent more energy efficient than the average home.
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In this world of cookie-cutter projects and look-alike communities, it's hard to claim the mantle of first. But each of the three mixed-use projects profiled here can make legitimate claims to being unique. Club Casa Mina is the first private-equity residence club—a fractional—to hit Santa Barbara, ...
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In case the current housing market wasn't bad enough, builders should be ready for subprime mortgage underwriters to require higher credit scores or bigger down payments from borrowers—and a drastic reduction in the availability of stated-income loans.
This past weekend (it is still March as I write this), I visited a couple of projects about 40 miles south of Washington in Virginia. Some years ago, Prince William County was considered to be a pretty long commute into the District of Columbia, but these days many folks make the daily drive in from...