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I find myself looking to that great sage Yogi Berra, the former manager of the New York Mets and Yankees, whose comments would seem to provide powerful insight into the current state of housing and the economy. Yogi said this to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig when attendance was down...
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Whether you're putting in the windows on your own job or subcontracting the work out, it's important to make the whole process painless for the crew coming in to install. Tim Murphy, president of Tim Murphy Carpentry, a full-service remodeling company in Chicago that specializes in window...
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"Got anything other than asphalt?" Minneapolis remodeler John Sylvestre, owner of Sylvestre Construction, had a problem a few years ago when he contracted to build a garage in the rear of a house designed by Prairie School architects Purcell and Elmslie, the only such house in St. Paul. Most of his...
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Mel Martinez, U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, announced President Bush's proposed budget will nearly triple funding of "sweat equity programs," which help low-income families become first-time homeowners.
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M/I Schottenstein Homes Inc. reports record financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2001.
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Even though swimming pools and hot tubs have become inexorably linked over the past two decades, many service technicians and firms remain reluctant to work on hot tubs. The reasons are many. For example, hot tubs are equipped with various types of control boards (with everything from digital...
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The nation's home builders strongly support the goal of ``broader homeownership, especially among minorities,'' expressed last night by President Bush in his State of the Union address.
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Home builder KB Home has announced its entry into the Tampa, Fla., market through an initiative launched last July with the acquisition of Trademark Homebuilders in Jacksonville.
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Beazer Homes USA Inc. and Crossmann Communities Inc. today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement, under which Crossmann will merge into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beazer Homes and the Crossmann shareholders will receive a combination of cash and Beazer stock.
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.( BUSINESS WIRE)- BuildPoint Corporation, a provider of bid and risk management for the construction industry, today announced that it has reached a major milestone in enabling over 50,000 users and powering nearly 1.6 million construction bids.
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New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows the United States had 73 million homeowners at the end of 2001, the largest number ever recorded.
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USBuild, a supply chain company for production homebuilding, today announced the completion of its second round of financing, bringing the total raised to $15 million.
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Should you let buyers view lots in real time? Village Homes uses an interactive mapping program by Media Lab. This protects the company from someone who might try to interfere with its back end through Web access, says Connie Dahl, the company's webmaster.
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Sales of new homes continue to post all-time records, despite last year's recession.
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The Web can help keep your homes code-compliant.Trenton Whitman of American Design Build in Coarsegold, Calif., was meeting with a client to discuss a home design.
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Demand for dealer-installed home security systems is growing. New single-family starts will constitute the fastest-growing market. The report also expects a 10 percent annual growth rate in multiple-dwelling housing units.
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Annualized housing starts are expected to regain ground by 2003.
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Home building comes out from under recession and terrorism; sales are expected to gradually increase through second quarter of this year. As David Hill surveyed the field of battle late in the third quarter, everything that could go wrong had for the housing industry. "Consumer confidence dropped...
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In nearly every measurable category, the housing industry is expected to do better than average this year.
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Prolonged decline in the economy could rapidly put buyers back in the driver's seat.