Lonnie Fedrick’s Houston-based Newmark Homes is a strange duck: public, but not very, and decidedly disinterested in dancing to Wall Street’s tune.

Brookfield Homes president Jeff Prostor sees big trouble brewing in Southern California’s construction labor market, and he’s a little uneasy about lumber supply and prices.

You don’t hear a lot about Indianapolis-based Giant Crossmann Communities, a public company that concentrates on entry-level and first move-up buyers in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas.

In case you thought industry consolidation was ending, think again.

When we look back at the turn of the millennium from the perspective of a few years, we may count Paul Estridge Jr. as a personal giant in the history of the housing industry: the father of 'the first mile.'

The proposed Lennar-U.S. Home merger recently held a mirror to the issue of low stock valuations for public home builders.

When No. 5 Lennar recently announced it will close later this year on the purchase of No. 8 U.S. Home Corp., the Miller family’s Miami-based juggernaut suddenly made this year’s ranking nebulous, if not passe.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. D. R. Horton Inc., the Arlington, Texas-based Giant is doing just that.

If you think Generation X workers are sensitive, check out the next group coming into the job market. But don’t blow up. You can’t do that anymore. Your only choice is to adjust your management style to their sensitive nature.