In August, Moody's announced it placed the debt of Centex, Lennar, and Pulte under review.
Other defendants include wallboard distributors and homebuilders such as Lennar, Pulte and U.S. Home.
So far the reported figures, particularly from builders including Pulte, Beazer Homes USA and D.
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Michael and his partners sold a large Colorado project to Pulte Homes in 2005.
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Shares of Pulte rallied to a 5% gain Thursday morning and is up more than 14% year-to-date.
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Horton Pulte Homes and the rest are off 60%, 80%, even 90% from highs set in 2005.
Pulte Homes just wrapped up its second year of a home-giveaway partnership with real estate site Zillow.
One outlier: Pulte Group, which surged on an analyst upgrade from Goldman Sachs that offset the downbeat housing data.
Homebuilders, such as Pulte, have stated that they are optimistic that the cycle is just beginning to take off.
In addition, even while Ryland disappointed earlier in the week, Pulte announced a 31% increase in its fourth-quarter orders.
If Pulte ever wanted to build middle-class houses, Su Casita would have to issue mortgage-backed bonds, as U.S. lenders do.
In the housing sector, consider Home Depot ( HD), Lennar ( LEN), Pulte ( PHM), and RPM International ( RPM).
Pulte brand homes now offer Gladiator packages to new home buyers who want to organize and store the items in their garages.
Several thousand people visited Pulte communites for that extra chance to win.
Earlier this year, Pulte.com tried a live chat pilot for new-home prospects.
Stocks of home builders such as Toll Brothers, Pulte Homes and D.
Another showed a loss of momentum and relative strength among the builders, using shares of the nation's biggest builder, Pulte Homes, as a proxy.
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.
Almost a year ago, Pulte debuted its so-called Life Tested designs.
But from Pulte's perspective, they solve only part of the problem.
But Pulte forged ahead, convinced that the long-term outlook was good.
Few of Pulte's Mexican customers have much of a credit history.
This year, Meyer added other social mediums, including Twitter and Pinterest, plus an extra chance to win to people who visited a Pulte sales office.
Pulte began looking at the Mexican market in the early 1990s and quickly realized that the only way to sell houses was to provide financing, too.
Despite growing optimism and speculation about a housing recovery, the technical picture for top homebuilding stocks Pulte Group and KB Home remains a house of horrors.
"In a high-inflation market somebody's going to go broke, either the lender or the borrower, " says Michael Mrez, head of Latin American operations for Pulte Mortgage Corp.
And if the new owners get to feeling cramped, they can always expand--Pulte designs the houses so that a third story or a walled-in patio out back can easily be added.
Pulte's Del Webb unit, for example, has built 41 of these boomer complexes--in the suburbs of Boston, New York and Chicago, among other places--and now plans to invade metro Atlanta and Minneapolis.
While the homes Pulte is building are some of the least expensive in Latin America, buyers still, he says, need a mortgage if they are to afford them on a worker's wage.
Another showed a loss of momentum and relative strength among the builders, using shares of the nation's biggest builder, Pulte Homes (nyse: PHM - news - people ), as a proxy.
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