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Active Adult

Snowbirds Migrate For Florida Spring Home Selling Season

Builders are reporting traffic is up in some Florida markets, yet challenges remain.
Del Webb Survey Reveals New Realities for Baby Boomers

Eighty is the new old, the Carolinas are the new Florida, and working through retirement is the new norm, according to a recent survey of...
Universal Design Holds Universal Appeal

Winners of AARP’s 2010 Livable Communities Awards blend good looks with comfort, convenience, and safety for all ages.

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Adaptive Reuse

Vintage Details Lend Character to New Homes

Builders and architects turn to reclaimed materials and historic elements to build tradition into high-performance new homes and remodels.
Lennar’s Massive Shipyard Redevelopment Project Moves Forward

Vertical construction for the first phase should begin in the spring, and the builder has completed its environmental impact survey for...
DeVries Place Senior Apartments, Milpitas, Calif.

2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Senior housing

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Affordable Housing

Buffalo sells high-end houses at deep discounts to encourage East Side revitalization

Mar. 8--Just a short distance east of downtown Buffalo, a few blocks away from neighborhoods pocked with vacant lots and boarded-up...
Two Arizona groups win USGBC 'green' grants to build home, apartments

Mar. 4--Two local nonprofit agencies won grants from the U.S. Green Building Council to build green homes.
Fannie Mae seeks $15.3B in gov't aid after 4Q loss

WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae needs another $15 billion in federal assistance, bringing its total to more than $75 billion.

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Attached Development

Bay Area Builder Bucks The Recession

Regis Homes is averaging at least one sale per week in each of its four active communities.
City Place Live-Work Lofts, Santa Ana, Calif.

2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Live/Work project
Small Attached Homes Make Density Feel Nice

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

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Custom Builders

Flexibility Equals Survival For California Custom Builder

Froehlich Signature Homes diversifies into apartment construction, office condominiums, and foreclosure rehabs.
Vista Dunes Courtyard Homes, La Quinta, Calif.

2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Affordable housing project; Green/Sustainable community
A Young Canadian Custom Builder Sets Sights On Growth

Edmonton-based Axiom Homes wants to transport its tight fee-management business model to the United States.

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Custom Homes

2008 Builder's Choice Awards: Lake Washington Residence

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
2008 Builder's Choice Awards: Kelly Residence

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
2008 Builder's Choice Awards: Piedmont Farm

2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner

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Infill

Compromise reached on Maryland stormwater pollution rules

Mar. 9--Builders, environmentalists and government officials have reached a compromise in a looming legislative fight that threatened to...
City officials: More interest shown by developers in downtown project

Mar. 8--DERBY -- More developers are taking an interest in the long-stalled downtown redevelopment project, city officials said last week.
HUD: Redevelopment of razed public housing at risk

NEW ORLEANS - Nearly two years after the contentious bulldozing of large tracts of public housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a...

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Infill Development

Artist Housing Revitalizes Old Fort Lauderdale

A unique public-private partnership uses affordable artist housing to revitalize one of Fort Lauderdale's oldest neighborhoods.
Is the McMansion Dead?

From accusations of ostentatious overconsumption to environmental indifference, the McMansion has taken some brutal hits in the recession...
Retrofitting Suburbia

Ellen Dunham-Jones urges builders, planners, and developers to look for patches of 'underperforming asphalt' to accommodate future growth...

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Mixed-Use Development

Projects hinge on tax credit changes: Current law limits pool of investors

Mar. 8--Mention an upstate city, and chances are good Steven Weiss knows of a development there that's on hold or, even worse, at risk of...
Recession has delivered hard blow to midstate's commercial real estate

Feb. 28--The commercial real estate industry in Middle Georgia took a powerful hit in 2009, and some say it will take years to see a...
Group gets grants to buy, rehab, raze empty homes

Jan. 26--TAMPA -- A local nonprofit organization will receive $50 million in federal grants to buy, rehabilitate or demolish foreclosed and...

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Multi-family

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis

NEW YORK - There was no heat or hot water, so for weeks Mary Fountain would fill a bowl and put it in the microwave, then strip off her...
Frisco council votes to support reduced-rent apartments

Feb. 17--More than 100 people turned out Tuesday to voice opposition to two proposed apartment complexes in Frisco.
Counties rethink subsidies' benefits -- City, county officials say law is unequal tax drain

JACKSON - Mississippi's county supervisors and municipal leaders are asking legislators to rethink a 2005 law that gives a break to...

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Multi-family Building

Future-Proofing Garages for Electric Cars

Plug-in vehicles may finally be hitting the mainstream. Are your garages ready?
Housing Starts Have Unexpected Relapse in July

Increase in single-family starts offset by significant dip in multifamily construction activity.
Slideshow: Townhomes

In today’s economy, there’s much to love about townhouses.

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