Creative land deals are often the most important aspect of infill home building successes.

Traditional neighborhood design is a hot item these days, but one of the problems that will pop up, if you decide to take the TND plunge, is a shortage of house plans to fit alley-loaded lots.

When a successful family-owned building company from Dallas decides to expand into the Houston master-planned community arena, they had better have their game faces on.

In San Diego County, some big-time builders are ilding houses on a small scale.

With the current economic boom and upswing in the housing industry in general, it only follows that sales of vacation homes should be going up as well.

It's the current Holy Grail sought by volume home ilders-find products or services that can create an on-going revenue stream from the homes and communities that you have built and sold.

Pat Hamill of Oakwood Homes is justifiably proud of what his company has accomplished in building Green Valley Ranch, a master planned community in northeast

Melbourne, Fla.-based Mercedes Homes, a leading builder of starter and first move-up homes in many Florida markets and in Dallas, Texas, is moving into higher-priced product.

As the leading edge of the baby boom generation gets closer to retirement, home builders that specialize in developing age-restricted communities are working overtime to find the perfect blend of amenities that will click.