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During the mid-1990s, when job growth in Atlanta ran at a 100,000 annual clip, the supply of single-family lots in the 15-county region flowed like water.

Green Street Properties LLC has a pretty sweet deal: a 28-acre parcel 2 miles east of downtown Atlanta, a city where people are leaving the suburbs in droves, in part to escape the standstill traffic caused by sprawl.

Examining the psychographics of its target customers took Neumann Homes of Warrenville, Ill., all the way to Broadway.

Homeowners expect perfect homes. Trades deliver less-than-perfect quality.

It's hard not to wonder as the third year of the 21st century begins what the questions will be that dominate discussion in our industry in 2003.

Educating future generations of home buyers about the housing industry and the obstacles it faces was one of my priorities for the NAHB in 2002.

Fastest-Growing Places to Build: Counties

The greater Raleigh-Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C., area has several attributes that builders like to see.

Builders, product manufacturers and service providers all estimate home sales volume and home price appreciation when preparing business plans each year.

Forget about the archaic distinctions between city and suburbs.

Residents and business owners in the Hiawatha and 46th Street Station area in southeast Minneapolis were up in arms.

QuickBooks Premier: Contractor Edition 2003 is a new software product made for contractors with no more than 20 in-house employees.

A California lawyer has received a patent for his solution to the problem of tight, confined suburban neighborhoods: acre-sized circles that maximize the side and front-facing distances between homes.

The most popular discussion today about home prices is one-dimensional and incomplete for it focuses only on demand.

New York City stops at the Hudson River, but its urbanized land pattern straddles the water and radiates across northern New Jersey, enveloping cities such as Newark and Paterson as well as once-small villages such as Paramus and Montclair.

Smart Code, due out this spring from Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and Municipal Code Corp., will provide a basis from which smarter zoning codes can be adopted by local officials.

There are sounds we hear that enable us to recognize where we are without having to see anything - a ticking clock, air blowing through vents, trees rustling.

Quality-oriented home building no longer begins and ends with builders.

Passive heating takes advantage of sunlight as a natural energy source.

The first thing is to start thinking about liability insurance, and do it today.

Constructivism means giving employees the resources and opportunity to learn on their own, at their pace, when they need it.