Customers rushed to the sales offices of Meritage Homes, the property firm Mr Hilton runs, not to buy houses but to cancel contracts they had already signed.

在Hilton先生经营的物产公司Meritage Home的销售部办公室里，顾客挤破了脑袋，为的不是买房，而是想要撤回他们已经签订的合同。

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Steve Hilton, the boss of Meritage Homes, is keeping the price of his houses down to at most 15% more than comparable existing ones to compete with the flood of foreclosures.

Meritage Homes总裁史蒂夫·希尔顿将其房产价格降低到至多比现有同类房屋高15%，以应对取消抵押品赎回权的大潮。

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Shares of Meritage were down slightly Wednesday by 0.3%, while Toll Brothers shares saw a 2.5% gain.

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But the twist at Meritage, as the wine forward name suggests, is that they do food pairings with wine.

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Due to uncertainty about the future of the housing market, Meritage now sells for a cheap four times 2001 earnings.

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