Pulte News

On a day during which both pending home sales and construction data for the month of October were better than the market was expecting, there was a rally in the homebuilding sector, led by Ryland Group , Hovnanian Enterprises and Pulte Homes .

Early support helped the S&P 500 come within just a couple of points of a new 2009 high, but resistance at current highs left stocks to gradually pare gains for the reminder of the session.

Long exposure to the market's brutality has whipped executives at two publicly owned homebuilders into a business-casual Delta Force.

Close REAL ESTATE By JAMES R. HAGERTY and SARA MURRAY The U.S. housing market is sputtering again, adding to doubts about the vigor of the economic recovery.

Stocks discussed on the in depth s ession of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday November 19.

Pulte Homes Inc. announced Monday that it is opening three new communities in the Twin Cities that will eventually have 150 new homes.

A regional home builder is liquidating its assets through the bankruptcy courts as it exits the troubled metro Atlanta market, which is showing some signs of recovery.

In the wake of a higher-than-anticipated earnings per share loss from D.R. Horton , shares of most of the major homebuilder stocks were down in pre-market trading, and that trend picked up pace throughout morning trading.

Unexpected decline in new home construction scuttles stocks Wednesday; Hershey may jump into bidding for Cadbury.

On Wednesday we wrote a piece talking about the strange upgrade of Pulte Homes by an analyst at Citigroup .

Wednesday morning the Commerce Department released figures that homebuilding activity in the U.S. had unexpectedly fallen in October.

This morning, Citigroup upgraded shares of Pulte Homes from Hold to Buy as the stock has underperformed the sector lately.

U.S. stocks broke three days of gains on Wednesday following worrisome outlooks from two major software makers and a surprising drop in home construction last month.

Shares of most homebuilders were mixed in Wednesday trading after two reports gave weak readings on the current housing market.

At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." So you might think we'd be the last people to give virtual ink to such "news." And we would be -- if that were all we were doing.

Pulte Homes Inc. lost $361.4 million in the third quarter, but with the acquisition of Centex Corp., the homebuilder's new orders increased by more than a third.

Homebuilder Pulte Homes Inc. said Friday that its chief financial officer, Roger A. Cregg, raised his stake by exercising stock options that were set to expire.

Pulte Homes, Inc. announced today that Roger A. Cregg, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, increased his holdings in the Company by 54,000 shares by executing a cashless stock option exercise.

There was no economic data of note released in the region today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained +44.29 points to 10291.26 points.

There's not much to like about real estate these days. After five years of unprecedented home price appreciation, prices are falling back to their historical trend line.