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  • Frustrated Developers Hiss Back at Snake
    Developers and home builders are all too familiar with how endangered species can thwart development plans. In South Jersey it’s the northern pine snake that has protected privileges. But this time the developers have decided to strike back. Here’s a look at their plan of attack.
  • Rotten Trim Replaced Under Settlement in South Carolina
    A South Carolina law firm has sent out letters to notify Charleston County building owners of a class-action settlement in which a federal court authorized payments for replacement of manufactured exterior trim.
  • Investors Pluck Land Deals
    In the Southern California market, buyers are snapping up empty expanses as large as 100 acres from developers and builders who are now desperate to get the land off their books. Take a look at these deals, and what the investors are planning to do with the property.
  • Contractors' Records Catch OSHA's Attention
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is drafting rules that make record-keeping audits an agency priority, and builders should get ready for inspectors who want to study injury logs when following up on worker complaints or investigating projects. Here’s the scoop.
  • Green Building Practices Focus of Certificate Program
    Green practices in residential building are the focus of the Green Homes Certificate Program offered by Colorado State University this fall at the CSU Loveland Learning Center. The accelerated evening program provides a comprehensive overview of green residential building, new construction and remodeling.
  • Making Home Affordable Program on Pace
    Here's an update on the government's Making Homes Affordable program
  • Builders Shy Away from Foreclosed Homes
    In Milwaukee, and most likely in other cities across the U.S., there's money to be made renovating cheap, foreclosed homes, but hard-to-get loans are keeping contractors out of the market. This is how some builders are viewing the situation.
  • Homeowners Start Turning To Phased Remodeling
    The National Association of the Remodeling Industry has found from consumer studies that in the current market homeowners have been opting to do remodeling projects in fits and spurts, which is more conducive to their schedules, budgets and lifestyles.
  • Homebuilder's Survival Strategy – Stimulus
    Here’s a look at how one homebuilder is looking to Uncle Sam, not for a bailout, but for a piece of the economic stimulus pie. Find out how he has put his creative strategy in place to keep his business going.
  • New Laws Proposed to Boost Home Sales
    Political leaders are proposing new legislation to help solve housing and mortgage problems for families who have experienced a job loss or other serious financial difficulty. Such proposals are often good politics, good for troubled families and good for the country. One proposed bill would create a $2 billion loan program for unemployed homeowners who don't qualify for other mortgages because they no longer have a steady income. The proposal, introduced by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., resembles a 1975 program that provided credit to Americans who had lost jobs so they could keep their homes, reports DSNews.com.
  • Spec Homes Making a Return Appearance
    Home builders are becoming a bit more optimistic about future demand for their products, so much so that some are starting to build spec homes again. Find out what’s happening Missouri’s St. Charles County and elsewhere in their metropolitan area.
  • Sarasota Flip Activity Does Market Damage
    This investigative article that appeared in the Sarasota Herald Tribune details the account of rampant real estate flipping activity that occurred in that market from 1997 to 2008. The deals reportedly resulted in over $100 million of mortgage defaults.
  • Florida Architecture Firms Unite
    Three high-profile architects from the Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. area have set forth to corner their market by combining forces. Here are the reasons they decided to merge, and what each firm brings to the new bigger table.
  • New Home Valuation Code Seen as Threat
    The Home Valuation Code of Conduct is meant to improve the independence and accuracy of the home appraisal process, and provide protections to borrowers, buyers and investors. Here are some of the code's primary provisions.
  • Homebuilding Veteran Launches New Firm in Phoenix
    Joseph Carl Homes, a start-up home building company founded by former Engle Homes President Carl Mulac, today announced its emergence into the metropolitan Phoenix market. Joseph Carl Homes will be focused initially on building homes in existing developments in Phoenix and its surrounding communities.

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