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.
The net income of the top 25% of all builders is two and a half times that of their peers left behind. Why settle for average when working smarter is so much more profitable?
In California, a deadline for builders looms. On June 1, the nation’s most stringent energy standards will take effect, requiring an average cut of 14 percent in energy use for all new homes built.
Buyers love these spaces for aesthetic reasons, but the benefits of courtyards go well beyond their looks.
