Professional Builder sat down with Meritage Homes CEO Steven J. Hilton to discuss the builder's net-zero offering, selling green homes, hot markets, and more.

From jobsite inspections to product installation to weather tracking, builders are finding a host of uses for the iPad and other tablets on the jobsite.

Builders across the country are turning to tablet technology at a growing rate — and for a host of business applications.

Housing starts dropped 5 percent to a three-month low, while building permits, a proxy for future construction, unexpectedly climbed.

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes dipped by a single point to 14 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for September. The index has now held between 13 and 16 for six conse

KB Home announced a planned nationwide rollout of its next-generation of energy-efficient home designs, a net-zero-energy home dubbed ZeroHouse 2.0.

David Weekley Homes, the nation’s third largest privately held home builder, has acquired luxury home builder T.W. Lewis and its Phoenix market assets.

Fitch Ratings cut a trio of home builders deeper into junk territory Monday, pointing to a dismal outlook for new housing activity as well as liquidity pressures at the struggling home builders.

Standard Pacific Homes' CEO Ken Campbell has announced that he is resigning his job and his board of directors position effective January, saying that a former chief of the firm's Orange County division will be his successor.