The frustration is palpable these days among the executives of publicly traded home building companies - the giants of the Giants.

Pulte Home Corporation is taking Pennsylvania realtors for a ride, and the realtors are loving it.

Manufactured housing (and its subset HUD Code housing) has been enjoying a surge in both popularity and reputation lately.

American builders and their customers have shouldered the burden of cost increases resulting from a trade pact called the Softwood Lumber Agreement.

When No. 5 Lennar recently announced it will close later this year on the purchase of No. 8 U.S. Home Corp., the Miller family’s Miami-based juggernaut suddenly made this year’s ranking nebulous, if not passe.

Think of home building’s cutting edge. Most people think of innovative design, alternative construction methods or smart land plans.

Several well known building firms have been named builders for Phase One of Playa Vista, the large master-planned community to be built on a historic and environmentally sensitive area of west Los Angeles.

The proposed Lennar-U.S. Home merger recently held a mirror to the issue of low stock valuations for public home builders.

Making time to know the neighbors is a frequent casualty of today’s hectic, more frenetic pace of life.