Few builders take full advantage of value engineering. In most of the home building industry, value engineering's original promises of lower overhead costs and higher product quality remain largely unfulfilled unless collaborative efforts are taken

Gen. William Lyon, the 83-year-old patriarch of the California housing industry, talks about the differences between having a public and private company and explains why he decided to bring William Lyon Homes back into the private realm.

Although the traditional housing market measures still apply, here is an additional supply/demand measure that also needs consideration.

We have seen a significant shift in structures this year in response to softer housing market conditions. Predictably, the structures now look like those we successfully used throughout the 1990s.

The model home opened Sept. 16 at KB's River Garden community is not what you'd expect from a national production builder: an exquisite re-creation of a New Orleans Greek Revival home, a style built in the late 19th century in the historic d

With energy prices on the rise, buyers are increasingly attracted to the notion of high-performance homes. Find out what you need to know in order to connect to your customers' deep desire for energy efficiency.

Although housing construction was down in August, sales of new homes were up, and Wall Street surged at the end of the fall quarter and took housing stocks along for the ride.

Despite all the obstacles, production builders continue to inch forward with new products and systems; every builder has a different system for auditing promising technology.

Second in a two-part series: In this article, the methodologies used in valuing companies are outlined, answering the recurrent question, "What is my company worth?"