A builder would probably not be surprised if a development priced more than $100,000 below the median average sold briskly - especially in Huntington Beach, Calif.

No one in Florida questions the value of Energy Star, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark voluntary program to improve energy efficiency in new housing built across America.

DeLuca Enterprises and Berwind Property Group acquired Realen Homes, based in Ambler, Pa., in June for an undisclosed amount.

Everything turns green in the summer. Why not mortgages?

Building permits nationwide were issued at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.621 million units during June, a 1.9% increase over the month and 5.9% above the total for June 1998.

You can change anything you want, so long as it’s something we do. In a nutshell, that’s the approach most large production builders seem to take with buyers’ requests to change something about their new homes.

Two insulation firms -- Collins & Co. of Vernon, Conn., and Comfort Insulation of Bend, Ore. -- have been named National Certified Contractor Firms of the Year.

In a recent edition of Nation’s Building News, articles on resource-efficient construction started on the top of the first page.

The most remarkable aspect of Dewees Island is the way developer John Knott sells greenness, and how well that sales pitch works.