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U.S. Homebuilder Confidence at 6-year high

By The Associated Press
Published: October 19,2012

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders remains at its highest level in six years, reflecting improved optimism over the strengthening housing market this year and a pickup in visits by prospective buyers to builders’ communities.


Homebuilders group sees pickup in 
housing this year (access required)

By The Associated Press
Published: February 16,2012

The U.S. housing market will begin to mount a turnaround this year, building toward a solid recovery in 2013, according to a forecast by the chief economist of a homebuilding industry trade group.


Fed up with living in an apartment, Linda Holden built her own duplex 36 years ago (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: December 27,2011

Linda Holden was newly divorced, going to school part time, and raising two kids. “I needed to make some money,” she said.” It was the early 1970s, and at the time she was living in an apartment complex in Endicott, N.Y. Desperate for work, she asked the apartment complex’s owner, who was also a developer and builder, for a job.