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Broker Creates Wholesale Market in Tear-Down Land

Eighteen months ago, former stock trader turned real estate broker Brian Hickey opened an Internet-based service from which builders can get targeted listings of old homes that sellers are willing to unload as tear-downs in affluent, infill neighborhoo..

Audacious Habitat Plan Brings Builders, Activists to Table

So breathtaking in scope is a draft growth plan for the western half of Riverside County, Calif., that some environmental activists previously opposed to any growth are working with builders and local officials to hammer out a deal.

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Fair Housing Act Help

A new Department of Housing and Urban Development education initiative is aimed at helping builders, developers, architects and designers learn how to design and build multifamily homes in compliance with the Fair Housing Act.

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Single Family Residential Finished Lot Price Index

Single Family Residential Finished Lot Price Index (1995 = 100)

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Imputed Lot Value 2001

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Poster Child for Demand/Supply Imbalance

Single-family home building in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties, which form the San Francisco metropolitan statistical area (MSA), is slowing to a trickle.

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Good Jobs, Room to Grow

The greater Raleigh-Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C., area has several attributes that builders like to see.

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Rocky Soil, NIMBY Constrict Supply

New York City stops at the Hudson River, but its urbanized land pattern straddles the water and radiates across northern New Jersey, enveloping cities such as Newark and Paterson as well as once-small villages such as Paramus and Montclair.

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A Plentiful Supply Slowly Tightens

During the mid-1990s, when job growth in Atlanta ran at a 100,000 annual clip, the supply of single-family lots in the 15-county region flowed like water.

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Predicting Tomorrow's Land Values Today

The most popular discussion today about home prices is one-dimensional and incomplete for it focuses only on demand.

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

As Mortgage Rates Rise, Buyers Lose Purchasing Power

Renters Are Choosing Single-Family Homes for These Features