Beazer Homes USA News

In trading on Thursday, general contractors & builders shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Beazer Homes Usa , down about 4.6% and shares of Standard Pacific down about 4.1% on the day.

Shares of home builder Toll Brothers Inc are now trading at a new 52 week high. TOL shares are up nearly 50% over the past six months.

When Greece faced a tense, massive debt restructuring earlier this year, an entrepreneur used iPads to connect 100,000 bondholders, saving billions.

Shares of home builder Beazer Homes USA are down more than 23% over the past three months.

But Two Harbors is crossing the Rubicon. It is one of the first to be entering the "new" housing frontier; the step from owning the debt to owning the property, from financial asset to hard asset.

In trading on Friday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.3%. Leading the group were shares of Hovnanian Enterprises , up about 4.9% and shares of Beazer Homes USA up about 3.6% on the day.

May 9 - Fitch Ratings has published updated recovery analyses for U.S. Homebuilders and Building Materials companies, including: Beazer Homes USA, Inc.

At a time when homebuilders are struggling to compete with the bargain-basement prices of distressed properties and more families are turning to rentals as credit stays tight, Beazer Homes USA seems to have adopted the motto, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." A year ago, Beazer started buying distressed "preowned" homes in its Phoenix and Las ... (more)

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Real Estate Rundown: Many still haven't learned their leverage lesson, Green Street exec says - Monday, April 23, 2012 2:20 PM The company said it would contribute about 200 single-family homes in Phoenix and Las Vegas to the REIT, which will be called Beazer Pre-Owned Rental Homes Inc.

House of the Day : This airy, 3,360-square-foot apartment in Tribeca still bears remnants of its industrial past.

Beazer lost less money and sold more homes in the first quarter of 2012 compared to 2011.

Atlanta builder Beazer Homes, following a national upswing in new house sales, cut losses during its quarter ending in March and reported doubled sales and revenue, increased sale prices and a bit of optimism.

The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund ripped higher around 10:45 this morning.

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com reported a narrower fiscal-second-quarter loss Wednesday as the builder recorded a surge in ... (more)