In many ways, the current housing market slowdown is similar to what happened between 1990 and 1992, although that one had a national economic recession to deepen it. We've avoided that this time — so far.

To a customer, a great homebuying experience comes when the sales associate does something that adds value to their visit and puts the customer's shopping agenda ahead of their own selling agenda

Two of the largest housing markets in the country that have not received a lot of attention are examined: the metropolitan areas of Minneapolis and Lakeland, Fla.

Builders with the majority of their operations in the Northeast, California, Arizona, Nevada and Florida where pricing surges were strongest made the biggest moves in this year's rankings.

High-rise and mid-rise construction used to be a high stakes game for regional builders with plenty of coastline. Now, however, even the biggest national builders want a place at the table. Their timing -- always a staple of their success -- couldn&

Since the GIs came home from World War II, this country's high-production home builders have had one dominant product: single-family homes built in subdivisions at about four units to the acre. Repeating that product, over and over, allowed the bigge

This month, we feature two Southern markets that rank among the 13 largest in the country.

According to Dr. Jack ReVelle, Six Sigma expert and quality guru, the average home has more than 60,000 points of failure during the building process. Having superb customer satisfaction scores means lessening those points of failure and doing a lot of t

Eric Wittenberg is a third-generation builder and a student of the work hard, play hard school. When he relocated from Southern California to Colorado about five years ago, he left behind his scuba gear, but held on to a personal debt of gratitude for th