About 40 representatives of St. Louis-area home builders got some valuable face time today with well-known housing-market analysts Joe Zanola of St. Louis and Edsel Charles of Nashville.

The gathering at the Des Peres Lodge was billed as a Homebuilder Recovery…

Numbers out this morning from Sageworks, a financial analyst of privately-held companies, show that the housing market appears to be turning around.

Sales growth for home builders began slowing in 2005–to 7 percent from 12 percent in 2004, Sageworks reports. But…

New-home sales are slumping. But new home building is big business in St. Charles County.

So today, the county’s leading economic development agency said it hopes to do something about those weak sales: Offering a $500 matching grant to first-time home…

Update your rolodexes: A big St. Charles County homebuilder is changing names, and leadership.

Manlin Homes will re-name itself Payne Family Homes, the company said in a news release today. Why? Manlin is leaving, and Payne taking the helm.

Michael Manlin, who…

Home builders are in the dumps, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be coming out of it any time soon.

The National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo put out their monthly home builder sentiment index today and found basically…

In case you missed it, the U.S. Green Building Council gave out several first-time awards for green building projects at the end of 2008 for its first Homebuilder’s Day.

One of the winners of those awards - the Live Green, Live Smart Institute…

Well, it was a nice idea while it lasted.

If you haven’t heard, lawmakers in Congress appear to have reached a swift compromise on a $790 billion stimulus package (story here). And to get there, they whacked an item that’s generated…

Fun fact of the day, from the U. S. Census Bureau: New homes are getting smaller.

Yes, after years of steadily-expanding waistlines, er, square-footage, new homes built in the U. S. last year began to shrink. One quarters’ data may not…