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Indicies Close Mixed
The Federal Reserve Board held interest rates in check at 5.25 percent, unchanged after five consecutive meetings of the federal bankers. Markets were volatile in the week before our session ended Jan. 31, 2007, responding to mixed earnings reports.
Unearthing a Crisis
Home building recently gave new meaning to the term skeleton crew: sites recently being excavated in Texas by Lennar Homes and in Pennsylvania by Pulte Homes turned up long-forgotten graves. In Texas, there are approximately 50,000 cemeteries, according to the Texas Historical Commission. With statistics like this, it's easy to understand how a builder could encounter remains.
Home Builders Mine for Green in Brownfields
Home builders who educate themselves on the process, assemble an experienced consultant team and can afford to be patient, can reap high margins in the promised land of brownfields.
10 Tips for Land Research
From four lots to 40,000 green acres, the fundamentals of land acquisition apply long before the buy.
How to Control Land Without Owning It
Five builder-developers demonstrate a few of the many ways cash-free and cash-lean deals get done.
Use Entitlement Contingencies in Contracts
The difference between a profitable land deal and one that ends up as an expensive mistake is often found in the details of the contract you draft.
Look Beyond Obvious for Infill Properties
The best parcels never make it to market. Developers know from experience that deals for choice land often start as solutions brought to landowners who initially have no intention of selling

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