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Sales fall 30 percent at home builder (Asbury Park Press)
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 Brothers Inc.

Home Builders Association endorses Lenthall, Ovitt and Arnold (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Supervisor candidates Jerry Lenthall, Harry Ovitt, and Debbie Arnold have won the endorsement of the Home Builders Association of the Central Coast in the June 3 election. Incumbents Ovitt and Lenthall and challenger Arnold “recognize that meeting the housing challenges of today and tomorrow requires balancing competing interests and making sure that we really plan for and meet the current and ...

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.

Home builders back off opposition to trust land reform (The Arizona Republic)
Arizona home builders, who have repeatedly given the death blow to conservation efforts, have agreed to let a state trust land reform initiative move forward without a fight.

Iron County commissioners grant just 7 of 82 prairie dog removal requests (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Posted: 8:27 AM- PAROWAN - The federally protected prairie dog is slowing down development in Iron County. Home builders complain they have to wait as long as three years to obtain a prairie dog removal permit under the rules.

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.

Mortgage cos. reveal damage from housing crisis (AP via Yahoo! News)
Broad damage in the mortgage industry was in full view Monday as a number of companies posted dismal first-quarter earnings, but there were also some hope that the worst of the housing crisis is over.

April report shows 811 homes for sale in Cowlitz County (The Daily News)
The number of Cowlitz County homes for sale in April reached its highest level in recent memory, but home sales have started rebounding after a slow start this year, according to a Northwest Multiple Listing Service report released Monday.

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.

Brown to reveal housing market plan (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will set out plans on Wednesday to shore up the creaking housing market as part of a drive to reverse a slide in support for his government.

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.

Remodeling business follows housing lower (MSNBC)
The downturn in the housing market has dragged the remodeling sector with it. For many contractors, that means a sudden struggle to stay busy.