What great idea is driving residential housing today? Fun.

Home builders are among the most prolific users of focus group research, but few employ the latest innovation in the field online focus groups.

For builders, the motivation to close on zero-punch homes is simple: Delivering defect-free homes makes customer satisfaction skyrocket, thereby increasing referrals and sales.

Homestar Mortgage Services' National Builders Program provides market, competition, customer service and feasibility studies.

MediaLab, whose multimedia programs include virtual-reality products, and iBidCo, creator of online home sales systems and events.

The 540 acres of rolling hills, creeks and deep canyon that form The Bridges master-planned community in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., seem a replica of the ancient hillsides in Italy's Tuscany region.

The stock plan business currently goes like this: If a builder (or the client) buys a blueprint (for about $600 or $800), the purchaser has bought it for one use (one house) and cannot reuse, resell or rebuild the plan without repaying or receiving wri..

A set of CD-ROMs with state-by-state maps of the entire country from the U.S. Geological Survey can be a handy tool for residential land buyers.

Can we agree on this page for this month to suspend talk of the housing bubble?