Once the industrial envy of the world, it supported a huge industrial working class with single family detached homes and two car garages.

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This company is more diversified as it builds single-family detached homes and condos in 28 states.

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Kolko dug into Census data to see how common it has been over the years for single young women (aged 25-34) with no children to own a single-family detached home.

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This change can be witnessed in places like Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, and Dallas, Texas, said Leinberger, where once rundown downtowns are being revitalized by well-educated, young professionals who have no desire to live in a detached single family home typical of a suburbia where life is often centered around long commutes and cars.

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Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN ) is the third largest builder of single family attached and detached homes across most of the U.S.. It also engages in real estate development and trading and has an attractive pipeline of land due to opportunistic buying in a distressed housing market.

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Its core business remains homebuilding, which deals with the construction and sale of homes that include single-family attached and detached homes and multi-level residential buildings.

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Ministers announced last year that they wanted a three-year relaxation of the planning rules to allow single-storey extensions of up to eight metres for detached houses and six metres for other houses to be built without planning consent being required.

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