Steve Wall’s acquisition of Technical Olympic USA’s Newmark Homes division in Dallas, along with John Laing Homes’ sharing a senior executive with its Dubai-based parent Emaar’s operation in India, highlight the movement of people

The perception we have of 2006 as a bad year — especially for all those big production home builders now fighting excess inventories, cancelled sales and balky buyers in 2007 — doesn't stand up to close scrutiny of the actual year-end numbers

Leadership. Innovation. Proven performance. Community involvement. Those are the attributes the editors of Housing Giants looked for when deciding to name our first-ever CEO of the Year

Questions abound in regard to resuming home builder merger/acquisition activity. When, what markets and who will lead the next wave of acquisition activity is just a sampling of what's on the industry's mind.

Valuable building sites are coming back on the market at reduced prices. Big winners will use them to capitalize on this housing down cycle, just as others have in the past.

With HUD-code housing in a decade-long funk, manufacturers are gearing up to partner with traditional home builders by producing modules that are assembled on-site.

Sign of a slump: Giants now selling more undeveloped land than serviced lots.

Builders in last year's Giant 400 hit profit benchmarks that may last.

Fast-growing, innovative companies can be found even in markets that really suck.