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BUILDER magazine is seeking your entries for the 22nd annual BUILDER's Choice Design and Planning Awards. We're here with online information about the competition, this year's categories, and a Web-based entry form that you can print out, fill in, and fax or mail back to BUILDER magazine
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The nation's fastest-growing counties are mostly in the South and near major cities, the Census Bureau said Monday. But the fastest-growing county of all is in the West. Douglas County, Colo., located near Denver, grew 13.6 percent over a 15-month period.
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The rates still lag behind the average for all Americans.The Hispanic rate grew from 42 percent in 1990 to 46 percent, aided by more flexible lending practices and the good economy. Overall, 66 percent of all American homes were owned in 2000, up from 64 percent a decade earlier.
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Economics have everything to do with it."It is everybody's dream to own a house," said Aldana, who grew up in Los Angeles. Despite gains over the past decade, Hispanic and black homeownership rates are still too far below whites and Asians, said Manuel Pastor, an economist at the University of...
A little revision goes a long way. In fact, the new owners of a luxury condo project in downtown Atlanta are counting on it. The property's credibility capsized under the ownership of Blane Kelley Jr., a developer who broke ground on the $60 million project in 1998 and opened the condominiums two...
With the Golden State still prey to blackouts and sky-high electricity prices, photovoltaic panels are popping up in communities by Shea Homes, Pardee Homes, Centex, and U.S. Home. Irvine, Calif.-based Standard Pacific is the latest production builder to break ground on a new-home community in San...
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Three years ago, Bluffton, S.C., would have been a tough sell for a national builder. Located across the May River from Hilton Head Island, the tiny town had no municipal manager, no planning staff--and no need of them within its 1 square mile of land.It's the most exciting game board in the United...
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Enron's saga has investors everywhere very interested in the assets that companies keep off their balance sheets. "What Enron was doing was retaining the risks of ownership in off-balance sheet partnerships."In February, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) began work on a proposal to...
The project's marketing materials for this project, produced by local advertising firm Idea Associates, were as unusual as the building design. The treatment carried through to the sales office, where visitors logged onto desktop computers to examine floor plans and take a virtual tour of the...
That means making your systems available in different formats," whether it's on a home computer or on a wireless regional offices to talk with our contractors in the field," says Tom Kuzma, vice president for information services at Arvida/JMB Partners in Boca Raton, Fla. "We've tried several...
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Callbacks, defects, warranty work, omissions: Call it what you want, it all amounts to a much greater impact to the bottom line than most builders realize.In the real world, the responsibility for warranty service is usually passed on to trade partners, or swept under the rug by the construction...
A third of Crossmann Mortgage's loans go to first-time buyers, but it should be higher, in the company's view. At Home Funding Corp., a mortgage broker that works with Whitemark Homes in Maitland, Fla., 60 percent of its first-time buyers receive counseling.
By Dan Fulton. These dangerous work environments require strict adherence to safety. This emphasis on jobsite behavior has naturally been extended to our home building business.Initially, orienting the home building business to new levels of safety was a great undertaking.
Noting a marked up-tick in the number of single women buying new homes, particularly townhouses, builders in Charlotte, N.C., have accelerated their marketing efforts aimed at this group. In its Lake Park community last year, Beazer Homes found that 60 percent of the townhome buyers were single...
In an effort to define zero energy in home building, the Dallas-based builder is constructing the first electricity-free house built by a production builder in Northern California.Prompted by the state's energy crisis last year, Centex is knee-deep in an experiment to determine what it takes to...
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Concern about the consequences of mold contamination erupted last year after a jury in Texas awarded $32 million to a plaintiff. Many states are busy putting together legislation and task forces to address the fungi, while many insurers are placing caps on mold liability and inserting clarifying...
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Joshua Hills community, a 9,000-acre development in the Coachella Valley, Calif., will be the biggest the burgeoning Inland Empire area has ever seen. California Intelligent Communities (CIC), headquartered in Palm Springs, wants to galvanize the valley and create a model, self-contained...
Industry veteran L.J. Edgcomb becomes head of Pulte Homes' Southern California division. Two former Willamette employees join the company's senior management team: Michael R. Onustockand and Marvin D. Cooper.
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A business transaction concluded at the beginning of the year between Schottenstein, former division president Gary Haarer, and regional president Gary Carlson provided a smooth exit for the 16th-largest builder.
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Under the name Richmond American Homes, M.D.C. Holdings is doing something it hasn't done in more than a decade: expand into a new market. The Denver-based home builder is moving into Texas, specifically into the big builder-dominated Dallas market."
By Iris Richmond. Can impact fees continue to be calculated toward builders' eligibility for the low-income housing tax credit? In Arizona, a recently proposed measure would provide builders with the opportunity to fix a construction defect before being named in a homeowner's lawsuit.
Two years ago, the large-volume builders came together to form their Homesite consortium, vowing to leverage a key commodity: new-home data. But with two news-making partnerships earlier this year, the group of 32 investor builders took two steps closer to controlling the prized information.First...
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With family and friends nearby, active adults shun the Sun Belt and just stay put.The Waterways at Moriches doesn't have a multi-million dollar clubhouse, concierge service, or a personal trainer. So why does builder Steven Klar have a list, as he says, with hundreds of names on it for the final 56...
This list shows detached and attached units sold to age-qualified or age-targeted buyers. Units closed do not include congregate or assisted-living components.
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FALLBROOK, Calif., April 1, 2002 (AP) -- They live in flimsy shanties of plywood and plastic, exposed to harsh weather and the constant threat of eviction.Legaria and the other workers in the flower and strawberry fields of northern San Diego County are taking part in an experiment that migrant...