In its drive to cover the country with on-your-lot operations, Centex Corp.'s Wayne Homes division has a new weapon.

Does the notion popularized by some housing industry analysts and the popular press that large national home builders have advantages destined to render local and regional builders helpless and unable to compete hold true?

I meet few builders who understand the true value of a search firm.

As we learned from the stock market during the past three years, all bubbles eventually burst.

Few North Carolinians grow up with an appreciation for ice hockey. Fewer still play it.

The home building game is like America's favorite board game

Mixed-Up Mosaics' collection of hand-laid, stained Italian glass mosaics can turn any facet of a home into a unique, vibrant statement that transcends the ordinary.

The list of building product materials grows longer every day as new uses are found for familiar substances.

The home building game is not unlike America's favorite board game: