Lennar Corp. of Miami ranks first in the Giant 400 this year, reporting 22,560 closings in 2000 for housing revenues of $4.9 billion.
Denver’s healthy housing market, a product line that requires no exterior maintenance, and the integration of diversified businesses helped Littleton, Colo., builder Village Homes climb to 69th in the Giant 400 this year, up from 82nd last year.
Watermark Communities Inc. (WCI) of Bonita Springs, Fla., is different from many of the Giants in two ways: it owns and operates most of the amenities in its communities, and it has been very successful with a market niche most home builders avoid: hig..
A geographic diversification program launched four years ago is paying big dividends for Sunrise Colony Co., a land developer and home builder headquartered in Las Vegas.
Rather than seek new geographic areas for expansion, Emerald Builders sees plenty of new opportunities in its established markets—Houston and Phoenix—and in its two newest markets, Dallas and Austin.
Unless you’re one of the top five Giants, building 17,000 houses in a single year seems unattainable. And for a nonprofit organization, it’s improbable.
A few miles from where I write these articles, around the other side of the mountain, there stands a house on the side of a granite slope. The house is multilevel in nature and it is notched into a hillside of solid rock.
The dot-com carnage has the moneymen paying attention to the sticks-and-bricks business of home building.
A strong housing market has home builders leap frogging one another for better positioning in a tightening economy.
In this time of exploding technologies, the options available to new home buyers are virtually endless and quite sophisticated. From T-1 lines for high-speed Internet access to whole-house energy management systems—it’s all here, and then some.
