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Ryland Homes Helping Habitat Hammer Home the Need for Affordable Housing – PRWeb

Ryland Homes and its construction partners are building a Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity home as part of the 2012 Builders Blitz. Ryland Homes is building a Habitat home for the 2012 Builders Blitz next to this home going up … Continue reading

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KB Home is Recognized with Fourteen 2012 ENERGY STAR® Leadership in Housing Awards – Yahoo Finance

KB Home is pleased to announce that it has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a company-record fourteen 2012 ENERGY STAR Leadership in Housing Awards. The awards recognize the important contribution KB Home … New House … Continue reading

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Homebuilders’ Confidence Index At 5-Year High – NPR News

Confidence among U.S. builders rose to the highest level in five years in May, a hopeful sign that modest improvement in the housing market will pick up. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index rose to 29 … Continue reading

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Fresno general plan vote focuses on housing infill – Fresno Bee

It took two weeks and nearly 10 hours of debate, but the Fresno City Council finally decided sprawl is no longer to be a part of the community’s future. In a 5-2 vote in front of another packed house, the … Continue reading

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Council approves measures to improve infill housing – ottawastart.com

City Council today approved a package of measures intended to improve low-rise residential infill development in Ottawa’s mature neighbourhoods. There is strong demand for low-rise infill housing in Ottawa’s mature urban neighbourhoods. Sometimes these … New House News Link

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Homebuilders excluded from Fortune 500 party – Housing Wire

Fortune magazine’s 2012 list of the nation’s 500 largest corporations is missing an industry that only five years ago placed 11 companies on the list: Homebuilders. In 2007, 11 builders made the list. In 2012, zero did. The absence, the … Continue reading

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Cleveland-area housing market showing signs of recovery – Cleveland Plain Dealer

“The activity and traffic for the first quarter, and now through April, has not been this good in five or six years,” said Howard “Hoby” Hanna, the president of Howard Hanna Ohio. “Hopefully it stays this way. . . . … Continue reading

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NAHB Remains Optimistic About Housing Recovery – Builder Magazine

In its latest construction forecast, the NAHB on Wednesday stuck to its guns that “underlying fundamentals” such as low mortgage rates, decent economic growth, and pent-up demand for housing will drive double-digit percentage increases in … New House News Link

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NAHB Remains Optimistic About Housing Recovery – Builder Magazine

In its latest construction forecast, the NAHB on Wednesday stuck to its guns that “underlying fundamentals” such as low mortgage rates, decent economic growth, and pent-up demand for housing will drive double-digit percentage increases in … New House News Link

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US: NAHB Housing Market Index dropped to 25 in April – FXStreet.com

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) – NAHB housing market index wasn’t able to hold the 28 figure in April, as general consensus expected, and dropped to 25. It’s the first drop in the index in 7 months. © 2012 “FXstreet.com. The Forex Market” … Continue reading

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