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• February Sales Letdown Likely, Upping the Ante for March

  With February home sales data--both existing and new--not due out for two more weeks, a lot of industry stakeholders are scrounging for insights into how the month's numbers stack up. January figures weren't particularly encouraging. Existing Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 12:39 PM by syaussi | 0 Comments Filed under: housing, Big Builder magazine, home building, real estate, residential construction, home builder

• What Happened to Last Year's Green Shoots?

  I got my first real glimpse of spring this morning. Enough snow had melted from the tree box garden in front of my house to reveal a number of hyacinth and daffodil sprigs shooting up from the dirt. Those fledgling green sprigs, nearly eclipsed by the Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:47 PM by syaussi | 0 Comments Filed under: housing, Big Builder magazine, home building, real estate, new home builders, green shoots, capital markets

• Woodside Homes in the News

  Gulp. Gulp. Yes, that's me coming up after spending the past two-and-a-half days in what I affectionately call a hole, trying to finish up a feature story for the March issue of Big Builder. When I'm in my so-called hole, I spend zero time on Read More... Posted Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:21 PM by syaussi | 0 Comments Filed under: housing, Big Builder magazine, home building, real estate, residential construction, home builder, woodside homes, joel shine

• Possible Changes to FHA Lending Ignite Financing Fears

  So, the big news this week was that HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan told the House Committee on Financial Services during a hearing Wednesday that there would be a few more rules related to FHA lending come the end of January 2010. He might as well have just Read More... Posted Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:12 PM by syaussi | 0 Comments Filed under: housing, FHA, LGI Homes, Big Builder magazine, home building, home builder, down payment requirments, closing costs, mortgages, Mortgage Bankers Association, real estatesidential construction, mortgage banking

• The (Latest) Best of the Best on the Web

  I spent a bunch of time on the Web last night, catching up on my news, trolling for new story ideas, and listening to real estate-related conversations taking place online, when I got a message on Twitter from one of Big Builder's 1,800-plus "followers." Read More... Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 3:46 PM by syaussi | 0 Comments Filed under: Lennar, housing, Big Builder magazine, Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, home building, brookfield homes, haverford homes, new home sales

• Former Heads of HUD Spar over Presidential Candidates at ULI

  With much of my time and efforts these days focused on the Big Builder '08 Conference , which will take place in Washington, D.C., over Election Day, I thought it appropriate to blog on something election related. I was at a ULI conference earlier Read More... Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 4:07 PM by syaussi | 0 Comments Filed under: housing, McCain, Cisneros, Obama, HUD, Kemp