home builders

Guaranteed Lease Payments for 6 Years! Wait what?

by Mark Saunders | November 19, 2010

The Good Ole Days: When the housing market was humming, most builders had some sort of guaranteed buyout program available for buyers that had a home to sell. In most cases, the builder wasn’t actually purchasing the prospective buyer’s home. Most of the time, builders had established relationships with 2 or 3 real estate agents / investors [...]

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Housing

Foreclosures Slow, Rates Hit New Lows, Building to Jump 40% in 2011

by Ryan Hinricher | November 15, 2010

Foreclosures may have had a rare down month in October, but don’t expect it to last. Interest struck a new low, while mortgage activity is up. We’ll round out the week with 2010 expectations on home-building and guidance for the next two years. RealtyTrac: Robo-Signing Mess Stalls Foreclosures in October Releasing its October Foreclosure Market [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Why the Heck Would You Invest in Finished Lots in This Market?

by Mark Saunders | November 12, 2010

Opportunity, perhaps. Some call it a decade of lost ownership and others call it the biggest housing bust since the great depression – investors call it big time opportunity. Finished lots are less costly than developing new: Over the course of the last couple years, investors have been buying finished lots on the cheap as [...]

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Real Estate

Home Builders Unite: Pulte Homes buys Centex for $1.3B

by Joshua Dorkin | April 8, 2009

In a sure sign that in order to survive the hobbled housing market you must take chances and make drastic moves, two of the largest home builders are going to be merging. According to the Washington Business Journal: Pulte Homes Inc. has agreed to buy fellow homebuilder Centex Corp. in a stock swap valued at [...]

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