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Active Adult

Builders Ask Localities, HOAs to Reconsider Age Restrictions

With move-down buyers stuck in homes that won't sell, builders try to expand market at active adult developments that have stalled.
Demand for Accessible Homes Will Rise, Experts Say

Universal design has yet to become mainstream practice in the home building industry, but that may change as the boomer generation ventures...
Shea Homes Enters Florida Market

Shea Homes, a private home builder based in Walnut, Calif., announced on Tuesday that it has entered the Florida home building market...

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Adaptive Reuse

Lennar Moving Forward on Entitlement of 10,000-Unit San Francisco Project

Hillwood Development and Scala Real Estate Partners will help finance the $2 billion redevelopment of 770 acres on Hunters Point and...
The Warehouses at Union Row

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Parker Flats at Gage School

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner

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Affordable Housing

Margate Affordable Housing Committee Suggests Cutting Impact Fees

Jan. 4--Developers of affordable housing stand to save money on permit fees if the Margate City Commission approves a recommendation from...
Obama: HUD pick central part of economic blueprint

CHICAGO - In naming his choice for housing secretary, President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday rounded out his economic team and gave new...
Obama Names HUD Secretary Nominee

Longtime affordable housing champion Shaun Donovan is latest appointment to Cabinet.

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Attached Development

Manifest Density

Check out four projects that share walls, look great, and may portend housing’s future.
Houses on the Hill

Attached homes outside of Manhattan have a New England state of mind.
Fort Irwin Family Housing

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner

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Custom Builders

No Stone Unturned

Struggling builders turn to remodeling and commercial work, some for the long haul.
Last Word: Haven Custom Homes' CEO Jerry Smalley

“We have to be far more precise than a site builder due to how we assemble our units."
Sales Booster: Give a How-To Book To Your Buyers

Orlando custom builder says book has turned prospects into customers.

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Custom Homes

Lake Washington Residence

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Kelly Residence
Piedmont Farm

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner

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Infill

Glen Park Residence

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Columbia Heights

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Home Front: 'Anti-Sprawl' Law Unlikely to Radically Alter Sacramento Trends

Oct. 3--The hyperbole soared into overdrive when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a major "anti-sprawl" bill this week authored by state...

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Infill Development

The Village at Irvine Spectrum

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Icon

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Laguna Court

2008 Builder's Choice Merit Award Winner

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Mixed-Use Development

Fool’s Gold?

Toll Brothers moves forward cautiously on a dicey New Jersey project.
The Village at Irvine Spectrum

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Obermeyer Place

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner

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Multi-family

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Multi-family Building

Report Says Multifamily Developers Overpay in Fees

In Volusia County, Fla., a developer of a 500-square-foot studio apartment pays the same in school impact fees as the developer of a 5...
Architects File Liens Against Chicago's Spire

The developer says there is a contractual dispute and that the project is not financially threatened.
Seiders, Witten Predict Multifamily Starts to Fall Off

By 2011, starts could fall to around 125,000 units—numbers not seen since 1993.

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