Compare data for the 2014 Housing Giants across the nation using Professional Builder's heat map

Notching their best year since 2008, the nation’s biggest builders took advantage of an improving economy and a better housing market to find revenue in new places.

Monthly and quarterly price growth normal, but annual growth at lowest rate in 11 months; rents increased 4.5 percent nationally year-over-year

Compared with the first quarter of 2013, the single-family index increased 4 points to a level of 50, which is the 10th consecutive quarter of year-over-year improvements.

Of the 351 metro markets measured, 300 have seen year-over-year economic gains, according to the NAHB/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI)

Forty-one percent of Americans would prefer to buy a new home for the same price as an existing house.

For the same price as an existing home, 41 percent of Americans would prefer to buy a new home.

Builders and architects reveal their top considerations for selecting windows and doors.

Prices continue to rise while sales drop from February