Meanwhile, PulteGroup cited pricing power in its quarterly report and fellow home builder DR.
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Home builder KB Home surged 6.4% at the open after reporting a surprise profit.
Chris is the IT manager for a small home builder and they are struggling.
Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the NAHB and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla.
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"We would be buyers of Toll, and nearly every other home builder, at current prices, " says Buckingham.
In corporate news, shares of Lennar jumped after the home builder's fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue topped forecasts.
Oaktree also recently completed the purchase of Countryside Properties, a U.K. home builder, from Lloyds Banking Group PLC.
Lennar, 2.4%, which stumbled Monday on a disappointing home builder sentiment report.
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But his disability claims to the subcontractor and the home builder were denied.
Jim Stack, editor of InvesTech Research, is certainly no home builder bull.
He plunked it all down on three stocks: gold miner Newmont Mining, energy giant ChevronTexaco and high-end home builder TollBrothers.
She has brought that knowledge to her latest post as senior vice president and CMO of home builder PulteGroup Inc.
The Arizona home builder is long on Toronto high-rises at an unusually volatile time for real estate in Canada's biggest city.
The closely held company had grown by 2011 into the nation's eighth-largest home builder, according to Builder Online, a trade publication.
The numbers give Oppenheim a sense of pricing--the key to home builder profitability--in the 40 biggest markets for new home construction.
Home builder Carl Weissensee used to be "addicted to stress, " he says.
Merrill Ross, an analyst at BGB Securities, warns that home builder stocks are temperamental and just as sensitive to prices as sales volume.
These days over half of his Equity International portfolio is invested there in businesses like retail property company BR Mall and home builder Gafisa (NYSE:GFA).
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It is only by such accommodations with local conditions that Pulte, the second-biggest U.S. home builder, has been able to break into the Mexican market.
Grant suggests selling home builder stocks and buying short-term Treasury notes.
The home builder sentiment index fell in February after a several-month uptrend, and housing starts fell to 890, 000 in January after a surge in December.
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Howard, a Vermonter whose father was a home builder, says the NAHB, in all, speaks for a constituency of 8 million to 10 million people.
By the way, the prices of home builder stocks have doubled.
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Momentum investors riding the home builder rally have been richly rewarded.
As a crude (but at least fairly priced) approximation of the insurance you need, you could buy some put options on heavily traded home builder stocks.
Home builder stocks, measured by the XHB ETF, are up 50% since October 3, and Toll Brothers has clocked a 70% gain, Lennar is up 65%.
They figure that at least three home builder companies will post profits by 2012, as start they ramping up sales starting in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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However, no such help will be coming for the thousands of bond issues backed by corporate sponsors or a home builder with empty lots and incomplete infrastructures.
Investment firm Gordon Brothers used its partners' capital and leverage recently to buy 160 homes at a "significant discount" from their previous book value from a bankrupt home builder.
His home builder holdings have helped him produce an annualized 22.7% return in his model portfolios over the past six years (compared to 0.9% annualized for the Wilshire 5000).
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