Understanding and feeling comfortable with all the technology tools available today is a daunting task for even the most accomplished IT professional.

For the last several years, this nation’s largest publicly traded home builders have piled one record-setting quarter on top of another while watching their share prices tumble in the opposite direction of their earnings.

In a matter of a few weeks during July and August, a composite index of home building stocks rose nearly 40%. It will likely go higher in the coming months as investors begin giving the group a closer look, analysts who track home building say.

Not convinced that tech toys like Palm Pilots are as indispensable as some purport them to be, some builders opt for the old-fashioned information carry-all: the briefcase.

Since Lennar’s deal to acquire U.S. Home last spring, there has been a long void in home builder acquisition activity. But the cork just popped out of that bottle

New Venture to Take Infill From Local Niche to Regional Strategy

This Total Quality Self-Assessment Survey was originally developed as a tool for the National Housing Quality Award judges to evaluate applicants. Several of the judges began using the survey to evaluate their own building companies.

If there ever was a patron saint of urban revitalization, it was James W. Rouse. As a developer and builder, he has a huge legacy for large-scale projects, mainly in core urban areas, that seemed risky at the time but always succeeded.

'Meditations on Design,' by John Wheatman, shares distinctive design principles for a variety of living spaces.