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Meck 2013 home-building surge shows no signs of slowing at February’s end (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: March 1,2013

The 2013 Charlotte-area housing market is still on a boom as of the end of February. The value of permits issued in the first two months of the year in Mecklenburg County for the benchmark single-family detached home is up nearly 60 percent over the same period of 2012.


Horton a much busier homebuilder in Meck than same time last year (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 20,2013

Fort Worth, Texas-based Horton has pulled 65 permits worth almost $8.83 million so far this year, according to county records as of Wednesday morning.


D.R. Horton on a February homebuilding tear in Mecklenburg County (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 14,2013

CHARLOTTE — D.R. Horton is on a homebuilding rampage this month in the Charlotte area, pulling 19 percent of all the Mecklenburg County single-family home construction permits issued so far in February. As of close of business Wednesday, the Fort Worth, Texas-based homebuilding titan had been awarded 23 of the 119 single-family building permits issued [...]


So far, D.R. Horton is Meck County’s busiest homebuilder in 2013 (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 18,2013

CHARLOTTE — D.R. Horton is the busiest homebuilder in Mecklenburg County so far this year, with 22 building permits worth nearly $2.9 million awarded by the county for detached, single-family homes. Fourteen of those permits, or nearly two-thirds, are for homes in the new, mixed-use Vineyards on Lake Wylie subdivision off Old Dowd Road just [...]


Meck building permits suggest 2012 is year of homebuilding comeback (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 8,2013

The county’s homebuilders in November continued their 2012 surge past the previous year’s building permit figures, according to just-released monthly and year-to-date statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Charlotte.


Meck 2012 homebuilding already over 2011 levels (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 11,2012

According to just-released, year-to-date data compiled by the Home Builders Association of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County had issued 1,911 building permits worth $300.5 million as of Oct. 31 for the benchmark single-family detached house.