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August 02, 2010

Grading the Trades: David Weekley's Suppliers Receive Annual Grades

Businesses jettison extras during economic meltdowns, when focusing on survival becomes the prime directive. They also tend to become more internally focused....

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April 22, 2010

Federal Home Buyer Tax Credit, Hit or Miss?

Every once in a while those of us we who spend a lot of time focusing on the forest of the home building market just need to go look at a tree to divine the truth of a matter....

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September 14, 2009

Bankruptcy's Stages of Grief

It’s been amazing to watch Emile Haddad, Lennar’s former California land buyer, during the last 18 months as the financial underpinnings of LandSource Communities Development, one of his proudest acquisitions, eroded, leading to a year in bankruptcy, and now its re-emergence as a new debt-free company to be managed by Haddad’s new company Five Point Communities Management....

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August 31, 2009

Bad Times Reveal Good Trade Partners

Bad times tend to boil people and organizations down to their essential elements, the high heat vaporizing light-weight combustibles while revealing those made of true metal....

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July 13, 2009

Behind The New Appraisal Code Looking Glass


Christopher Shaxted, executive vice president of Chicago-area Lakewood Homes, laughs when he tells the story of The-Bank-That-Must-Not-Be-Named. ...

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