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The most technically advanced student won't last long in the workplace without interpersonal skills and an understanding of the importance of teamwork.
The headline resonated across the nation: 'Five U.S. Homebuilders to Start Web Firm'. The list read like a Who's Who of home building: Centex, D.R. Horton, Lennar, Kaufman & Broad, and Pulte...
Why does it take more than ten years for new technology and new building products to be absorbed into the mainstream of housing?
A company''''s mission statement goes a long way toward telling the outside world what that company wants to do.
Mitch Hochberg is no day-trader, but he’s riding Wall Street’s bull market to home building nirvana.
Homebuyers do not want to buy a standard model and sacrifice all that they really want in a home.
The frustration is palpable these days among the executives of publicly traded home building companies - the giants of the Giants.
A central point of reference that argues in favor of a continued strong housing market during the next decade comes from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, The State of the...
Architect and town planner Andres Duany is now working to establish development ordinances that place Traditional Neighborhood Design on an equal footing with conventional suburban development.
In this issue that is all about bigness, it is worth some time to wonder what 'big' among home builders really means.
As no-growth initiatives and smart-growth referenda pop up in local jurisdictions from one end of America to the other, more and more developers (not to mention elected officials and planners) are...
If you think Generation X workers are sensitive, check out the next group coming into the job market. But don’t blow up. You can’t do that anymore. Your only choice is to adjust your management...
In the spirit of total commitment to our readers, and not just to a portion, as this month’s cover implies, here is a tour of Professional Builder’s April content and my thoughts on why it will...
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. D. R. Horton Inc., the Arlington, Texas-based Giant is doing just that.
When No. 5 Lennar recently announced it will close later this year on the purchase of No. 8 U.S. Home Corp., the Miller family’s Miami-based juggernaut suddenly made this year’s ranking nebulous,...
The proposed Lennar-U.S. Home merger recently held a mirror to the issue of low stock valuations for public home builders.
When we look back at the turn of the millennium from the perspective of a few years, we may count Paul Estridge Jr. as a personal giant in the history of the housing industry: the father of 'the...
In case you thought industry consolidation was ending, think again.
