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Hidden Lake Receives Award from National Association of Home Builders (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
RALEIGH, N.C.----Hidden Lake, a community near Wake Forest, N.C., has received the prestigious "Green Project of the Year" Award from the National Association of Home Builders. Representatives from Crescent Communities, the developer of Hidden Lake, accepted the award at a ceremony in New Orleans on Sunday.

Housing Prices Tumble in Two-Thirds of U.S. Cities (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
May 13 (Bloomberg) -- The median price for a single-family home in the U.S. dropped 7.7 percent in the first quarter, the biggest decline in at least 29 years, as values tumbled in two- thirds of U.S. cities, the National Association of Realtors said.

Meredith Clarke (London Free Press)
Home builders grow event Not just any event can fill the Lamplighter Inn's Crystal Ballroom to its capacity, but the London Home Builders' Association did just that last Thursday when it paid tribute to the outgoing president and welcomed its new president.

Toll Brothers preliminary 2Q sales fall 30 percent (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Investors scouring for hints of a housing revival won't find much in the second-quarter preliminary sales results of luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc.

6 signs of an economic rebound (Money via Yahoo! Finance)
By now you've had enough of the endless gloom in today's economic news: record oil prices, slower home sales, deepening loan losses, disappointing corporate earnings. What you're really looking for at this point are a few signs of hope.

Home builders grow event (London Free Press)
Not just any event can fill the Lamplighter Inn's Crystal Ballroom to its capacity, but the London Home Builders' Association did just that last Thursday when it paid tribute to the outgoing president and welcomed its new president.

Toll Bros. 2Q sales numbers fall 30 percent (Connecticut Post)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Investors scouring for hints of a housing upturn won't find much evidence in the second-quarter preliminary sales results of luxury-home builder Toll

UK's Brown to reveal plans to help housing market (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Adrian Croft LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will set out plans on Wednesday to shore up Britain's creaking housing market as part of a drive to reverse a slide in support ...