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Indices Slide into Negative Terrain

Some negative news including predictions of a sustained decline in the housing market in 2006 slowed the markets in December. The anticipated so-called Santa Claus rally never materialized, but other factors such as soaring consumer confidence numbers fo

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Noisy Neighbors: Recipe for Lawsuit?

The increasing development of new and converted for-sale condominium projects in several major metropolitan markets brings a host of opportunities and challenges to the builders involved in multifamily housing.

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Upward Bound

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&

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What's Next?

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

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Southern Exposure

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

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The J.D. Power Juggernaut

Imagine setting out to deliberately design one of the nation's largest home building companies with a primary goal to never please your customers. You might think you would be some kind of industry pioneer with this strategy. But it has already been

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First-time Customer Satisfaction

Stories of unhappy new home buyers seem all too common today. Whether it be problems with the building experience altogether, part of the process in building their home, or in the final product, too often it seems nothing can transform - or quiet —

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What Makes You So Special?

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Flooring

Junckers Junckers adds Nordic Ash Wide Board to its wide board series of flooring. The Nordic Ash coloring is a result of white...

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SilverStar Communities

Vanguard Manabloc Plumbing Manifold System www.vanguardpipe.com The patented Manabloc water distribution system utilizes a central,...

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December

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