Publication: Builder Online

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Can Better Communication with Trades Mitigate Shortages?

Production builders look for ways to close communication gaps in their supply-chain management.It’s dawning on more production and custom builders that the problems they’ve been experiencing with rising costs and limited availability of construction labor ... [Published Builder Online - May 18 2013]

Entities: Meritage Corp, PulteGroup Inc, Supply Chain, Construction, Level of Detail

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

February 2013 - Latest Figures Show New Home Sales Increase in Portland, Prices Decline

There was a rise in new home closings in the Portland, OR market in February year-over-year, but with a rise less sharp than January 2013, there were suggestions the market may be leveling out. New home closings saw a 4.3% rise from a year earlier to ... [Published Builder Online - May 17 2013]

Entities: New Home Sales, Mortgages, Foreclosure

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Moen Faucets Go Mod

Lauren Hunter, of Remodeling Magazine, meets with Stan and Donna Schahne of Schachne Architects and Builders at the Kitchen and Bath... ... [Published Builder Online - May 16 2013]

Entities: Donna

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

BUILDER Tech Tip: 4 Apps for the Virtual Tool Belt

Our phones have more processing power than desktop PCs did a few years ago. As a result, builders are ditching their tool belts and downloading some of the most powerful tools on their devices.Here are some of the highest-rated and most useful apps we've ... [Published Builder Online - May 16 2013]

Entities: Apple iOS, iTunes, Construction

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Futurist Says Technology Will Impact the Housing Market, One Way or the Other

MIT’s Andrew McAfee fears that as machines get smarter and more agile, they could potentially destabilize the economy.Much has been written and discussed in recent years about just how automated the home building process can ever become. But technology’s ... [Published Builder Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Futurist, Market, Garry Kasparov

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Income taxes heat-mapped

More from BUILDERWhile California housing markets rebounded over the past year, Texas dominated on...In its third home-builder acquisition in 11 months, Ryland is returning to Dallas.With dimensional lumber predicted to experience continuing shortages ... [Published Builder Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: New Home Sales, Hanley Wood, Affordable Housing, Construction, Donna

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

How Builders Market Backward

Marketing veterans explain builders need to think of who, exactly, their buyer is before creating communities and product.A lot of home builders and developers have been doing things backward when they create their communities and design new homes, two ... [Published Builder Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Market, Hanley Wood, TARGET AUDIENCE, Surfing

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Mystery Inspector 6: Simple, Neat Air Sealing for Plumbing and HVAC

A good start to an inspection on a jobsite in southern Maryland. Here we see good air-sealing techniques put into practice. ... [Published Builder Online - May 14 2013]

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Long-Delayed San Francisco Redevelopment Finally Ready to Go Vertical

The roads, sewers, and street lighting are nearly installed. The financing is said to be in place. And on May 17, representatives for Lennar are scheduled to meet with San Francisco’s Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure to request final ... [Published Builder Online - May 14 2013]

Entities: Scott Smith, San Francisco (United States), Kofi Bonner

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Stronger Simpson Strong Ties

Three high-capacity truss hangers have been added to the Simpson Strong Tie standard product line.The HTHGQ heavy-girder truss hanger is a high-load capacity hanger designed to carry multi-ply trusses (up to five plies) or structural composite lumber ... [Published Builder Online - May 13 2013]

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Builders Look Forward After a Buoyant 2012

Builders are pleased enough with 2012 results to start expanding again.Dan Ryan Builders expected to close 650 homes in 2012. It ended up closing 731, thanks in part to its expansions into the Pittsburgh and Greenville, S.C., markets. The Frederick, Md.–based ... [Published Builder Online - May 13 2013]

Entities: John Landon, Steve Hilton, Dan Ryan, Scott Sanderson

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Labor Supply May Slow Housing’s Recovery, Fannie Mae Finds

New-home construction is expected to get back to a “normal” level of 1.6 million starts per year by 2016. If the industry reaches that plateau again, it is also expected to create an estimated 412,000 new residential construction jobs between 2012 and ... [Published Builder Online - May 13 2013]

Entities: Construction, Fannie Mae, Workers, Housing Starts

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...Many of the folks we talk with these days stay very cautiously optimistic, allowing that "it's better than it was, but it could still go either way."

Housing's humming, but it's a 'still-could-go-either-way' market [Published Builder Online - May 01 2013]

Per a press statement this morning from TRI Pointe Homes, "it has acquired 76 lots in the new-urban masterplanned community of Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif. The lots, TRI Pointe’s second acquisition within the masterplan, will feature 76 townhomes ranging from 1,200 to 2,100 square feet priced in the high $900,000s. Named Canterbury, the new neighborhood is slated to open in the first half of 2014."

A new day, a new land deal for TRI Pointe [Published Builder Online - May 01 2013]

TRI Pointe Homes announces this morning, per a press statement, "the acquisition of 301 lots in three highly desirable Southern California locations in Azusa (Los Angeles County), Temecula (Riverside County) and Huntington Beach (Orange County). TRI Pointe plans to open four new communities at these locations, with one opening in late 2013 and the balance in 2014."

TRI Pointe pulls the trigger on its first post-IPO land deals [Published Builder Online - Apr 16 2013]

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