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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.

Moms Become Home Builders For Habitat For Humanity (FOX 2 News St. Louis)
Dozens of St. Louis moms got a head start on mother's day, Saturday, cutting wood and driving nails. They were part of the "Women Build Initiative"; turning everyday moms into home builders for Habitat for Humanity. Yolanda Frazier never knew she had it in her: building things, first of all, let alone owning her own house. "Right now I'm on a section 8 program," said Frazier, working on several ...

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.

Home builders to carry more costs from defect lawsuits (Las Vegas Business Press)
Homes in Nevada could end up costing even more as a result of a precedent-setting federal court decision giving insurance companies the right to seek reimbursement from their insured builders for money paid out to settle lawsuits.

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.

Minister lets slips fears over housing (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A minister let slip fears about the state of the country's housing market Tuesday by inadvertently showing briefing notes as she arrived for a meeting.

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 ...

U.S. luxury-home builder reports sharp fall in sales (International Herald Tribune)
Toll Brothers said preliminary home building sales in second quarter fell by 30 percent from a year earlier to $817.9 million.

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