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The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 David Lee Smith	Battered Builders Falling Faster As part of a horrible week for housing, big builders lined up with huge quarterly losses. In the midst of this continuously declining set of circumstances, investors are urged to build a barrier between themselves and the battered builders.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Homebuilders Hit Bottom? Have we reached a trough in the housing market? For investors who believe that 2007 will see homebuilding slowly, steadily rise again, Toll and Ryland might deserve your attention.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 David Lee Smith	Horton Hammered Hard Yes, the quarterly results were more than half again better than a year ago. But the losses are still relatively large and aren't falling at a rate that would indicate that the end of the company's travails is near.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 David Lee Smith	No Light in Horton's Tunnel The homebuilder D.R. Horton saw earnings plummet 85% year over year, and management foresees no real improvement.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2007 David Lee Smith	Florida Flags Hovnanian The homebuilder takes $90 million in charges in the Sunshine State. The housing market continues to exhibit softness nationwide, with some areas clearly being harder hit than others. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 David Lee Smith	Three More on the Housing Slide Three more homebuilders, Meritage Homes, Pulte, and Centex, have reported, all demonstrating that builders are still hurting.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2007 David Lee Smith	Two More Homebuilders Get Nailed Pulte and Beazer become the latest large homebuilders to sink into loss positions. Investors without a longer than average time horizon are urged to avoid this sector.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2008 David Lee Smith	Beleaguered Beazer Hunkers Down The homebuilder is shrinking to a shadow of its former self.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Leaky Roof at Centex The homebuilder will report its third-quarter 2007 financial results shortly, where it is likely investors will see another homebuilder falling into a state of disrepair.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2007 David Lee Smith	Hovnanian Gets Floored The New Jersey-based builder pegs subprime-lending difficulties and a hard-hit Florida market as key to its woes. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 David Lee Smith	Pulte Joins Builders' Bad News Line Pulte only adds to the lengthening line of builders already warning of softer-than-expected quarterly results.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2007 David Lee Smith	The Housing Slump's Third Phase It seems that Pulte signaled another phase of the housing crisis with its recent restructuring announcement. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006 David Lee Smith	How Now the Homebuilders? Homebuilders' share prices have always correlated inversely to interest rate movements. No one knows when the Fed will reverse its recent string of rate increases. Given these imponderables, investors may want to avoid the group until the picture turns brighter.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2008 David Lee Smith	The Housing Roundup The housing news is still bleak, but the builders are edging slowly upward.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 David Lee Smith	Take a Hiatus From Housing With the housing market a mess, perhaps this is a good time to take a hiatus from it, and research sectors of the market that are more promising.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2007 David Lee Smith	Hovnanian's Housing Hoedown Hovnanian sells 2,100 houses in a three-day, $100,000 off sale. Does this cut-and-slash approach make sense for other beleaguered builders?
The Motley Fool January 17, 2012 Neha Chamaria	Why There May Still Be Time For This Homebuilder's Turnaround Hovnanian's fourth-quarter losses make better days for the company look far away
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 David Lee Smith	A Tale of Two Homebuilders Lennar and Ryland have reported similar results, only to receive markedly different treatment.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2007 David Lee Smith	Are the Builders Getting Bored? The builders still aren't happy, and -- surprise -- they're not as busy as they used to be.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Rich Duprey	Ryland Puts the Hammer Down The homebuilder manages to exceed expectations and raise home prices. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2007 David Lee Smith	More Useful Housing Data, Please! If the Realtors, the Department of Commerce, or the National Association of Home Builders put more effort into the types of numbers they released, investors would be better able to judge how soon the likes of Centex, Pulte, Lennar, Hovnanian, and Toll Brothers might recover from the current crisis.
The Motley Fool October 24, 2007 David Lee Smith	It's Official: Homebuilding's Lost It Centex's latest loss hit $643.8 million and rendered analysts' forecasts worthless.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2007 David Lee Smith	Housing Schizophrenia The homebuilders and the Realtors give very different reads on housing's health. What's an investor to believe?
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 David Lee Smith	Housing's Horrible Hiatus As bad as they were, the 2007 housing start numbers probably should have been worse.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2007 David Lee Smith	Hovnanian Huffing and Puffing The New Jersey-based builder is KO'd by continued softness in southwest Florida's housing market. But ultimately, the sector will recover. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 David Lee Smith	The Housing Roundup Despite a longing for profits from the homebuilders, the group remains in intensive care.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2007 David Lee Smith	Meritage Homes Joins the Slide Meritage Homes has joined the housing company slide into write-off wonderland. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 11, 2007 David Lee Smith	More Cracks in Housing's Foundation With dire pre-releases from two major builders, the future of housing becomes progressively more uncertain. Investors, beware.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Is Housing Headed for the Basement? When the National Association of Realtors begins disseminating negative news, it must be bad.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2008 David Lee Smith	Could the Builders Begin to Topple? Homebuilding news is worsening, leading some to doubt that all the builders will survive.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2008 David Lee Smith	Can't Cut Those Cancellations at MDC Despite an ongoing loss, homebuilder MDC Holdings has trimmed its write-downs.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 David Lee Smith	How Much Longer Will Housing Be Hammered? As the opportunity for tax benefits expires, housing will still be slammed.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2006 Seth Jayson	Another Housing Hoohah Did new home sales really drop last month? Not according to the numbers. Investing in companies that ride macroeconomic trends is never easy, and that's nowhere more evident than in the housing sector.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2008 David Lee Smith	A Glimmer of Housing Hope? Meritage Home's trends may make this company worth watching.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Cracks in Lennar's Foundation? Are fewer orders and increased incentives temporary phenomena, or warning signs for investors in this home builder?
The Motley Fool November 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Horton's Not So Bad Quarter It's something of a victory when hammered homebuilders beat expectations, as Horton did.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 David Lee Smith	Another Dose of Bad Builder News The latest negative housing numbers, released by the Commerce Department early this week, showed that the sales rate of new houses was lower last year than any time since we started keeping track of housing figures.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2008 David Lee Smith	Can Toll Lead the Housing Recovery? In addition to its luxury builder position, Toll offers balance sheet strength.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Dean Foust	A Scary Stretch Of Vacant Lots If demand for homes slows, builders' recent land grabs could hammer profits.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2007 David Lee Smith	Losses Building Up at KB KB Home's massive quarterly losses were softened, a little, by the sale of their French subsidiary.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2007 Rich Duprey	This Dead Cat Won't Bounce For the third consecutive day, shares of some of the biggest homebuilders rallied. Investors, beware, all data indicates that housing won't be doing well for a very long time to come.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 David Lee Smith	Homebuilders Defying Housing Numbers Sales might be down, but homebuilders' stocks are rising. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2010 Selena Maranjian s	Hold Your Horses on Housing A recovery probably isn't around the corner.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Return to Centex Centex joins the long line of homebuilders with slipping fundamentals. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 9, 2007 David Lee Smith	The Great, Exploding Housing Demand A part of Toll Brothers' pre-release gave the builders a decent year on Wednesday. So maybe there really is an emerging pent-up demand for houses that's about to explode and obliterate a still-sliding credit market.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Are Any Builders Worth Your Shekels? The time isn't yet right to buy the homebuilders, but some preliminary analysis can't hurt.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Taking a Toll on Homebuilders The nation's ongoing soft housing market continues to take a toll on the major homebuilders. Last week, luxury builder Toll Brothers reported lower results for its first quarter of fiscal 2007.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 David Lee Smith	The Housing Roundup Is it too soon to begin building positions in the nation's big builders?
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Rich Duprey	Beazer's Cloudy Future The home-builder reports dismal earnings. Shocking. While Beazer hopes the spring quarter shows more robust results, it has lowered guidance for the full year to $1.25 to $1.50 per share.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 David Lee Smith	Homebuilders Up 25% in One Day? Crazy? Absolutely. And housing's flood of bad news since then has already washed away the results. Investors, take note.