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Wisconsin builders Jeff Rosenberg and David Simon bet they can do what any number of brothers fail to do: work as partners in one home building business, Veridian Homes.

Learn from the experiences of others for yourself, your family, your employees and your company.

Cabinets open the door to greater design flexibility in any room in the house.

Donald Allen of D.O. Allen Homes in Lynchburg, Va., gets away on as many as six full hunting trips each year.

For Larry Sietsma, founder of Melbourne, Fla.-based Holiday Builders, selling his company to its employees through an ESOP proved the perfect exit strategy.

Your personal success is the result of only a measure of your personal drive and talents; the rest has to do with the people around you.

The Subdivision, our show about a superintendent's typical day in the field, would be a money-making blockbuster as well as educational for builders.

The federal government will open bidding on 3,700 acres in Orange County, Calif., this fall, and the real estate community will pay close attention.

These four illustrated steps show the preferred method for a home with any sort of lap siding.

Dave Showers, former CEO of Akron, Ohio-based Wayne Homes, made headlines in April 1998 when he closed the sale of the scattered-lot home building pioneer to Centex.

Once regarded merely as a place to lather up and rinse off, the shower now is seen as a sanctuary.

A new breed of termite control technologies enlarges builders' arsenal.

Consumer sentiment: Builders should focus on delivering comfort and connections.

Charlotte, N.C., partners Ray Killian and Allan Simonini have turned Simonini Builders into a pillar of excellence, winning a National Housing Quality Award and a local business ethics award in recent years while building 50 to 60 houses a year...