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Business financials advice, reports, and trends for professional home builders and remodelers.
Category management for builders: bid less, save more
By adopting the principles of category management, builders can greatly simplify the bidding process and achieve considerable savings.
Up to 3 million homeowners could save on mortgages under administration plan
Cleveland, demolition, settlement, lawsuits, vacant houses
A large portion of a multibillion-dollar settlement between the state of Ohio and several large mortgage lenders will go toward demolition of...
student debt, housing recovery, rising, Bloomberg
A new report from Bloomberg indicates that first-time homebuyers are having difficulty securing loans thanks to student loan debt totals nearing $1...
foreclosure, savings, December 2011, Business Insider, RealtyTrac, rate
As of December 2011, Oklahoma sports the highest foreclosure savings rate, according to a Business Insider story based on RealtyTrac data.
Buying concrete, purchasing, home construction, home building, homebuilding
Buying concrete turnkey can add a level of confusion about what is being purchased and for how much. Purchasing expert Charles Schneider offers a...
President Obama, State of the Union, housing, refinancing, banks, investigation
In his first State of the Union address of 2012, President Obama briefly discussed a pair of proposals to help the housing industry this year.
remodeling, home improvement, recovery, Wall Street Journal, spending increase
While final numbers have not been released, IHS Global Insight predicts that home improvement spending rose 3.3 percent overall in 2011, according to...
credit score, credit report, rental payments, FICO, CoreLogic, Experian
Credit reporting companies CoreLogic and FICO have begun including rental payments as a factor in determining an individual’s credit score, according...
home builder financing, project financing, professional builder survey
The majority of builders have faced some type of builder or buyer financing breakdown during the past year, according to a survey of Professional...
 

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