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Hiring

Real Estate Agencies and Builders Will Need to Adapt to the Next Generation Entering the Real Estate Sales Workforce

The next generation of sales agents are motivated by a different set of standards and practices.
Government jobs report shows residential construction jobs continue to disappear.

Government jobs report shows residential construction jobs continue to disappear.
February Editor's Notes

Only the fortunate will be attending this year's NAHB convention.

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Insurance

Dallas Has Till 2011 to Halt New Trinity Flood Maps

Jun. 2--Rates for flood insurance could soar for thousands of property owners near the Trinity River levees in Dallas unless the city can...
Real Estate Investing Making a Comeback

May 11--Lori Holland is looking up as she walks through a two-century-old house on Lime Rock Road in Smithfield.
Bankrupt Builder Asks Court to Allow Insurance

May 8--T.H. Properties L.P., the Harleysville home builder that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 30 after abruptly ending operations...

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Marketing

One Southern California Builder Looks To Catch Lightning In A Bottle Again

Far West Industries sold 54 million-dollar homes in six months last year.
Kirk Homes in Bankruptcy

May 14--Longtime Chicago-area home builder Kirk Corp. sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Tuesday, but its ability to reorganize...
Builders Offering Temporary Relief to Owners Who Lose Their Jobs

Unemployment insurance could remove one major obstacle to new-home sales, too.

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Operations

Home Depot Tries To Reassert Its ‘Power’

Giant home-improvement retailer envisions its long-range growth coming from improvements such as centralizing product distribution and...
6 Lessons For Builders From the Housing Bust

A brutal housing recession raises questions about standard operating procedures in the home building business.
Builder 100: A Horrid 2008 Behind Them, Few Builders Are Making Dramatic Changes

The hard times that began in 2006 for the housing industry dragged on through 2008. That was especially true for those companies that...

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Purchasing

Lenders are Dragging their Feet Disposing of REO Properties

Banks take their time reselling foreclosures, modifying mortgages, and approving short sales.
market uncertainty combined with the credit crunch destabilizes lumber prices

Fear of what the housing market will bring has combined with the credit crunch to throw off normal cycles for lumber purchasing.
Rising commodities prices one more cross for besieged builders to bear.

Building material prices have skyrocketed, and builders are bearing the brunt of the increases.

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Sales

Condo Demand in Houston, Nationwide is Lagging

Jul. 2--Jodie Sinclair's one-bedroom condominium in 2016 Main has been on the market for six months.
Minnesota Law Can Help Postpone Home Foreclosure

Jul. 1--When Dan Carlson heard last week that a state law scarcely a week old allowed people facing sheriff's foreclosure sales to postpone...
Star Tribune Column: Chief Witness to Plundering of House Isn't Saying a Word

Jul. 1--The mystery at 2008 Pillsbury Av.
Florida Offers Help to Some With Home Down Payment

Jun. 30--Starting Wednesday, Florida hopes to stoke its real-estate market by becoming one of the few states to offer $8,000 in...

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Training

Sales Educator Myers Barnes Releases New Book of Scripts, Negotiating Tools

Popular new-home sales university also presented as a series of free YouTube videos
Real Estate Agencies and Builders Will Need to Adapt to the Next Generation Entering the Real Estate Sales Workforce

The next generation of sales agents are motivated by a different set of standards and practices.
National Center for Construction Education and Research Offers Construction Skill Assessments in Spanish

A nonprofit offers skill certification for Spanish-speakers.

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Workforce

Feds Target Employers of Undocumented Workers

Builders must be able to verify that they and their subs meet immigration and hiring statutes.
New Book Portrays Fischer Homes As A Victim of ‘Prosecutorial Abuse’

But left unanswered are the reasons why the federal government singled out this builder’s job sites to raid for undocumented workers in...
6 Lessons For Builders From the Housing Bust

A brutal housing recession raises questions about standard operating procedures in the home building business.

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