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Home Depot: A Big Orange Buyout?
from BuilderOnline
Home Depot's share price rose more than 2 percent on December 1, after press reports about a possible private-equity buyout of the home improvement retailer. The company's CEO, Robert Nardelli, quickly downplayed the idea... read more

Indianapolis Remains Most Affordable Housing Market
from Nation's Building News
At the top of the housing affordability chart for the fifth consecutive time, Indianapolis, IN kept a strong grip on the title of most affordable major U.S. housing market in the third quarter of 2006, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index... read more

5 Home Trends We Never Saw Coming
from CNN.com
Some of the latest trends in homebuilding and remodeling were not too hard to spot. Is anyone surprised that Americans, already living in monster homes, want even bigger ones?... read more

Coastal Residents Get Help: Insurers Object To Rules Protecting Homeowners
from the Hartford Courant
Some relief is on the way for coastal homeowners in Connecticut who have had a hard time finding or keeping insurance, but new rules designed to help them have already drawn protests from insurers... read more

Bosses Say Jeld-Wen UK Factory Closure Inevitable
from the The Northern Echo (UK)
Manufacturer Jeld-Wen last night said the closure of its Darlington plant in the new year was "inevitable", in a move that will cost 140 jobs. But last night, a dispute broke out between the company and unions, which said neither they nor their members had been told the closure was definite. The unions said that as far as they were concerned, they were still in consultation over the Lingfield Point site's future. ... read more

Vinyl Key to New Home Design at New York Show
from EarthTimes.org
Creative new uses of vinyl in the design of innovative, energy-saving homes of the future will be on display this week through July 29, 2007, at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York... read more