Building Business

With distressed properties continuing to plague the market, why do some observers obsess over new-home inventories? They have plenty of reasons, most of them good ones

The real estate website incorporates its listings data to an interactive map that allows users to zoom in on prices, price-reduction probabilities, and reduction percentages

Big-bank mortgage servicers likely will be required by federal regulators to merely tidy up their still-messy processing, but state attorneys general and some housing advocates want banks to get serious…

A Bronze rating goes to one of the first homes in the islands to certify under the NAHB Green building program

Market watchers expect prices to continue to inch down – unless rates start to inch up, prompting fence-sitters to start making offers

KB Home continues its green-features rollout, and NAHB is prepared to explore any and all marketing angles for green-building and green remodeling at its conference in May

Some say the newly proposed risk-retention rules for mortgage lenders are too stringent, although the regulations still wouldn’t apply to most mortgages currently being written – those guaranteed by Fannie…

Australia-based homebuilder Henley Properties’ expansion into the U.S., with land purchases and operations underway in the Seattle area, takes a position in a tough market

Homebuilders discuss the dearth of AD&C credit with lawmakers, while home prices sink and the Treasury prepares to sell mortgage-backed securities. Still, there’s hope for the spring home-buying season

The homebuilding industry pauses to analyze the home buying expectations of Gen X