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Active Adult

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...
Builders hope boomer buyers will fuel the housing recovery

Jan. 29--Baby boomer buyers fueled a big run-up in U.S. home construction and sales in the 1970s and 1980s.
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

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
ArtBlock 731, Boston

2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Live/Work project

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Affordable Housing

The Disaster-Proof House

Flat-pack manufacturer sees its new age product as an answer to natural disasters, climate change, and the affordable housing crisis.
Stimulus housing plan slow to take shape

Feb. 3--A year into a $6 billion federal program to buy up, rehab and sell abandoned properties in hard-hit neighborhoods, the bulk of the...
Octogenarians get share of the American Dream: Housing bust and tax credit helped these fixed-income retirees buy their first house

Feb. 2--Hank Schmiess waited nearly nine decades for his piece of the American Dream.

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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

Universal Design Holds Universal Appeal

Winners of AARP’s 2010 Livable Communities Awards blend good looks with comfort, convenience, and safety for all ages.
Interest in Lynchburg redevelopment projects renewed

Dec. 14--Lynchburg saw renewed interest last week in two major redevelopment projects that were stalled earlier this year after failing to...
Real estate firm eyes purchase, redevelopment of blighted Nesbitt Courts

Dec. 8--The gloomy gray and khaki-colored Nesbitt Courts public housing development on the city's south side is under contract to be sold...

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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

Construction struggles not going away soon: Less credit, higher prices hurt

Jan. 31--TRAVERSE CITY -- Robert Meyer just retired as Leelanau County's top building official, but he's been in slow-down mode for months.
100 condos sold in RBC Plaza

Jan. 28--Last week, Highwoods Properties announced it had sold its 100th condominium in RBC Plaza, the downtown Raleigh tower that was...
Developer Brian O'Neill sues Citizens Bank for $8 billion

Jan. 28--Developer Brian O'Neill, whose empire is faltering in a brutal economy for builders and who already is being sued by his primary...

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Multi-family

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...
Owners: $5.4B NY housing complexes go to creditors

NEW YORK - Like many homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth, the heavy hitters behind the most expensive real estate deal...
Rents in Sacramento region retreat to 2004 levels

Jan. 22--A long time ago, in the summer of 2006, leading apartment analysts said the party was over for Sacramento's happy tenants.

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Multi-family Building

More rental properties on the way for Las Cruces

Jan. 11--LAS CRUCES -- The rental occupancy rate in Las Cruces is down slightly, but the number of projects to build rental properties has...
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.

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