Shared appreciation mortgages (SAMs), may provide builders with a valuable option on properties that are perceived to be risky investments or when interest rates are climbing, according to accounting giant Grant Thornton International.
Leadership is the ability to effectively guide, direct and influence people. They lead by influencing and building teams. They get results through the willing cooperation of their people.
International management consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co. lists the following keys to winning the talent war for gifted young managers.
With thousands of baby boomers turning 50 each day, vacation housing is a hot market niche for this-and the next-decade.
Analysts and investors are turning up the heat on the big public home builders to maintain their double-digit growth rates, even in the face of expected spikes in interest rates and drops in housing starts.
A Florida builder says his unique system cuts cycle time and increases strength by embedding a home's framing in the concrete slab, rather than building it on top.
Laundry rooms often are difficult spaces to merchandise in a model home, but new products are making it easier.
This affordable, 2,600-acre southern Utah second home community in the city of Washington (near St. George) works the amenities boomers want into a package that doesn't carry a hefty premium.
Learn the obstacles to proper valuation so you can more effectively promote innovative products in the homes you build.
Centex Destination Properties, the big public builder's new second home and resort housing division, is having a field day selling condos and single-family homes at Ko Olina Kai, the firm's first resort project on Oahu, Hawaii.
