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	<description>Hanley Wood Construction Pulse's daily news and analysis</description>
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		<title>Phoenix&#8217;s Joseph Carl Homes Gets a Strong Starts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re staying focused on a very positive story in home building right now. It&#8217;s not a big story. On the contrary, it&#8217;s rather a small one. Ten new-home sales small.
Still, those 10 homes sales are in four weeks. Multiply by 12 months&#8211;if the housing gods smile&#8211;and we&#8217;ve got ourselves another big builder. That&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/home-builders/phoenixs-joseph-carl-homes-strong-starts/</link>
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		<title>Why the Leading Builders of America are Doing their Own Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost nothing in Washington is easy to explain these days. So, why should the housing industry&#8217;s &#8220;great divorce&#8221;&#8211;the split-off last November of 16 mega-regional and national home building company executives from their role as a committee of the NAHB to form their own association called Leading Builders of America&#8211;be any different?
Housing itself, last we looked at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/home-builders/leading-builders-america/</link>
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		<title>Orleans Homebuilders Files Voluntary Chapter 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This came over PR Newswire yesterday evening.
Orleans Homebuilders, Inc. Files Voluntary Chapter 11 Petitions; Obtains Up to $40 Million in Anticipated New DIP Financing; All Homebuilding and Management Services to Continue Operations
BENSALEM, Pa., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ &#8212; Orleans Homebuilders, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;, or &#8220;Orleans&#8221;) (Amex: OHB), which develops, builds and markets high-quality single-family homes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/uncategorized/orleans-homebuilders-files-voluntary-chapter-11/</link>
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		<title>Private Home Builders&#8217; Moment of Truth Approaches with 2nd Half of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arguably the most important story of the year for the big home builder community is where are many private home builders going to get money to keep their lights on.  
First an explanation of what we mean, then a take on why we&#8217;re saying it now.
If private home builders don&#8217;t get that money, many, many more of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/finance/private-home-builders-moment-truth-approaches-2nd-2010/</link>
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		<title>Behind the Dire New-Home Sales Headlines: The Stimulus Factor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s new-home sales headlines, complete with their indication that they&#8217;d hit a half-century lowpoint, cry for perspective. So let&#8217;s take a look, clear up a few issues, and move on to focus on an operational/financial matter of interest.
Here&#8217;s a key data point, thoroughly lost in the noise and negativity from yesterday&#8217;s reports about new home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/home-builders/dire-newhome-sales-headlines/</link>
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		<title>For Woodside&#8217;s New CEO, Joel Shine, the Job is Simple to Say, Hard to Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As he puts it, Joel Shine has two jobs. One is to generate as much net cash return as possible for newco Woodside Homes&#8217; justifiably high-maintenance, anxiety-prone creditor-owners as possible&#8211;starting yesterday.
The other is to instill his recently sucker-punched operational team of business unit leaders and associates as well as Woodside&#8217;s puzzled base of customers with pride, motivation, confidence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/home-builders/woodsides-ceo-joel-shine-job-simple-hard/</link>
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		<title>Colorado&#8217;s Village Homes Resurfaces from Bankrupty with New Ownership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one doesn&#8217;t bite the dust. Another one does the opposite. Village Homes, a 25-year stalwart in home building in Colorado&#8217;s Denver and Front Range markets, has emerged from bankruptcy as a NewCo.&#8211;with new owners but the same name.
Amid the financial and credit crisis of late 2008, Village Homes filed for bankruptcy in Denver in December, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/home-builders/colorados-village-homes-resurfaces-bankrupty-ownership/</link>
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		<title>Lennar F.D.I.C. and Pulte Centex Game-Changer Plays: Opposite Routes to the Same Goal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Housing Crisis got wind that there were as many as four large &#8220;entity acquisition deals&#8221; in the home building landscape in various stages on a path to lift-off. Whether we get news of them soon that any of them makes it to fruition is not guaranteed.
However, M&#38;A or no, we  feel that consolidation of home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/uncategorized/lennar-fdic-pulte-centex-gamechanger-plays-routes-goal/</link>
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		<title>Grand Opening Green Shoots for New Phoenix Home Builder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far so good on the up-from-the-ashes story unfolding in Phoenix. For a first-blush report on what the home building industry community can only hope is a real thing Spring selling season, we tapped into the trenches in Sun City, where Carl Mulac&#8217;s Joseph Carl Homes went live this past week with a grand opening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/home-builders/grand-opening-green-shoots-phoenix-home-builder/</link>
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		<title>Housing Market&#8217;s Fate is Tied to Jobs and Mortgage Finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like we needed another metaphor for housing&#8217;s deep freeze here in Washington, D.C&#8230;. now intrepid (or foolish) souls who venture out&#8211;as we did this morning&#8211;into the bleak icy tundra that is the nation&#8217;s Capitol need to tromp nary a block before they encounter some car or truck stuck, tires screaming, going nowhere at full speed.
Ice and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.housingcrisis.com/home-builders/housing/</link>
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