Big private equity firms that started out buying up foreclosures as investment properties are now moving into the new home market.
Economic health is returning to the California homebuilding industry. What’s not returning? The skilled workers.
The hottest marketing tools out there are in social media. Think of it as word-of-mouth on steroids.
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A new home in Dillingham, Alaska, has set a world record for the tightest residential structure ever built.
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The North Carolina House of Representatives has approved a bill that would prohibit local governments from using zoning ordinances to regulate building-design elements for single-family homes or duplexes
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Small independent builders say they can’t get equal access to land or financing in Florida’s hot housing market.
A new “homeowner bill of rights” law in California appears to have cut the state’s foreclosure rate significantly.
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The oil stopped flowing two years ago. Much of the money hasn’t started flowing yet. And the Gulf Coast, some reports say, is still hurting from the effects of BP’s disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowout.
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Homeowners at “Somerset Run” in Franklin Township, New Jersey, have been complaining since 2003 that their Energy Star rated houses are drafty and expensive to heat. And they’re still not happy.
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A New Mexico court has ruled that the state board setting construction rules can’t overturn a building code without providing a reason.
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An Inspector General report says more than half a billion dollars in Hurricane Katrina relief money may have been misspent. Most Katrina victims who were awarded $30,000 apiece to elevate their houses never documented that the work was done.
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Congress authorized funding for Hurricane Sandy emergency relief in January. But the actual money hasn’t started flowing yet.
Carelessness helped create Florida’s Chinese drywall disaster. Cleaning it up is a job for a very careful builder.
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Sales and prices are up, and inventories are low. Builders need to boost production, but the supply of skilled trades is tight.
A Colorado general contractor’s day in court is approaching in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by relatives of a family poisoned by carbon monoxide at a ski chalet.
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Connecticut authorities have ordered 27 jobs to a halt in the state because employers were paying employees as subcontractors and failing to obtain workers comp coverage.
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As homebuilding starts to surge, materials prices are surging too.
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From small-time scams to major misappropriation of relief money, government is on the lookout for crooked use of rebuilding funds.