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  • How a Family-Run Custom Builder is Filling Lots
    Here’s an interesting profile of a custom home building firm that does their business in the Chicago suburban market. They’re carving a niche for themselves focused on infill and redeveloped lots.
  • Frustrated Developers Hiss Back at Snake
    Developers and home builders are all too familiar with how endangered species can thwart development plans. In South Jersey it’s the northern pine snake that has protected privileges. But this time the developers have decided to strike back. Here’s a look at their plan of attack.
  • Opportunistic Buyers Start to Emerge Amid Land Bust
    It’s what happens in the wake of a real estate market downturn. Here’s a look at an example in the Charleston, S.C. market where investors with cash on hand are swooping in on the large swaths of developable land. And it can have detrimental effects on the entire market. Take a look
  • How Society Impacts The Evolution of a Building’s Use
    In this article, local architects and a historic resources coordinator examine the evolution of notable buildings in their city of Albany, Ala. “Throughout a building's evolution, its purpose may change from its original intent, but that's what makes it interesting,” says one architect.
  • Landscape Architects Create New Sustainability Resource Guides
    The American Society of Landscape Architects has launched a new series of comprehensive online resource guides on sustainable design and planning. The guides include hundreds of project case studies, research papers, organizations and other government resources on sustainable design aggregated for the first time. Find out more about it here.
  • Atlanta Home Builders Zero In on Military Bases
    Atlanta area home builders have been invading markets that surround military bases in neighboring states, which are viewed as hot spots in an otherwise challenging housing development environment. Looks like the proverbial cat is out of the bag now for military housing opportunities.
  • Investors Pluck Land Deals
    In the Southern California market, buyers are snapping up empty expanses as large as 100 acres from developers and builders who are now desperate to get the land off their books. Take a look at these deals, and what the investors are planning to do with the property.
  • Banks Trim Borrowing from Emergency Fed Program
    Banks borrowed less recently from a Federal Reserve emergency lending program designed to combat the financial crisis, a sign the institutions are having an easier time getting credit from private markets.
  • Architects Bring Artistry to High-end Homes
    The architects and builders who work on high-end custom homes get a double dose of creativity in each project — they exercise their own artistry while bringing to life the imaginative concepts of their clients. Here’s how.
  • Making Home Affordable Program on Pace
    Here's an update on the government's Making Homes Affordable program
  • Homebuilder's Survival Strategy – Stimulus
    Here’s a look at how one homebuilder is looking to Uncle Sam, not for a bailout, but for a piece of the economic stimulus pie. Find out how he has put his creative strategy in place to keep his business going.
  • New Laws Proposed to Boost Home Sales
    Political leaders are proposing new legislation to help solve housing and mortgage problems for families who have experienced a job loss or other serious financial difficulty. Such proposals are often good politics, good for troubled families and good for the country. One proposed bill would create a $2 billion loan program for unemployed homeowners who don't qualify for other mortgages because they no longer have a steady income. The proposal, introduced by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., resembles a 1975 program that provided credit to Americans who had lost jobs so they could keep their homes, reports DSNews.com.
  • Spec Homes Making a Return Appearance
    Home builders are becoming a bit more optimistic about future demand for their products, so much so that some are starting to build spec homes again. Find out what’s happening Missouri’s St. Charles County and elsewhere in their metropolitan area.
  • Sarasota Flip Activity Does Market Damage
    This investigative article that appeared in the Sarasota Herald Tribune details the account of rampant real estate flipping activity that occurred in that market from 1997 to 2008. The deals reportedly resulted in over $100 million of mortgage defaults.
  • Newmark Homes to Buy Lots from Bankrupt Builder
    Newmark Homes Houston is buying a majority of the local Houston assets of bankrupt home builder Tousa. Hollywood, Fla.-based Tousa, which bought Newmark in 1999, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early last year.

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