Home builders

TALLAHASSEE — Leaders of Florida's building industry Monday urged "a time out" on banks calling in construction loans. The Florida Home Builders Association called a news conference, after meeting with Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, to discuss ... (more...)

Banks with repossessed housing projects on their hands and investors and builders looking for bargains need to know what stalled developments are worth and what can be done with them. One expert to whom they turn is Steve Johnson, director of the ... (more...)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. home builders rose on Thursday as the beleaguered sector, floundering amid a protracted downturn, extended a six-day rally spurred by the largest drop in interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages in 27 years ... (more...)

At last, Home Front has found a more pleasant way to tell a foreclosure story. When Golden 1 Credit Union recently foreclosed on a 1-acre property near Rio Linda, it didn't just put it back on the market at a big loss. California's biggest credit ... (more...)

Google defied weakness in the technology sector, gaining more than 10% at the close. A Barclays analyst said there seems to be an increase in advertising spending, and Google is well positioned to grow its market share. Investors were less optimistic ... (more...)

The effluent-fed flows along two stretches of the Santa Cruz River are significant enough to merit the highest protections under federal law, the Environmental Protection Agency said this week. In a letter sent late Wednesday to the U.S. Army Corps ... (more...)

Home loan rates are near their lows for the year, reflecting optimism over government efforts to help the housing markets, but analysts see little help for the worst-off borrowers and people with jumbo mortgages. Freddie Mac, the government-backed ... (more...)

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Helping Main Street as well as Wall Street has been an objective of President-elect Barack Obama throughout both the campaign and into the transition period. Some argue that home-buying incentives built into a new economic ... (more...)

Unkempt landscaping is part of the scene at L’Hermitage, an Apex residential project that appears to have been abandoned by its developer. APEX – The weeds and underbrush are rising faster than the unfinished homes at L’Hermitage at Beaver ... (more...)

In today's challenging times, the home-building industry is borrowing heavily from the adage that necessity is the mother of invention. That's no more true than today, as residential builders continue to tap their other skills to diversify and make ... (more...)