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Pulte, D.R. Horton, Lennar top Professional Builder’s Housing Giants rankings

With more than $3.9 billion in total residential revenue and 15,275 closings in 2011, PulteGroup tops Professional Builder’s annual Housing Giants ranking of the nation’s largest home-building companies. See which firms made the list.

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Pulte, D.R. Horton top Professional Builder's 2011 Housing Giants rankings

With more than $4.4 billion in total residential revenue and 17,095 closings in 2010, PulteGroup tops Professional Builder’s annual Housing Giants ranking of the nation’s largest home-building companies. D.R. Horton had $3.9 billion in residential revenue and 18,983 closings in 2010 to grab the number-two spot on the Housing Giants list. Rounding out the top five are NVR, Lennar, and KB Home.

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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a tool that can assist in identifying where your areas of risk lie and helps structure solutions. By using a table list, key steps in your process i.e. either a project or at the highest level, the core functions of your business. Against each of these...

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May 16, 2012

Asking prices hit one-year high in April

A 0.7 percent increase in median home prices in 146 metropolitan areas in April brought them to their highest point in almost a year, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors.

May 16, 2012

April housing starts jump nearly 30 percent from 2011

Housing starts in April were nearly 30 percent higher than the year before, with 717,000 new homes beginning construction (seasonally adjusted annual rate), according to data released today by the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and...

May 15, 2012

Builder confidence rebounds, hits five-year high in May

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes gained five points in May from a downwardly revised reading in the previous month to reach a level of 29 on the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today.

May 15, 2012

Remodeling activity up 10 percent from 2011 in March

BuildFax Remodeling Index shows double-digit gains from 2011