Pulte News

Kristi McCollom, a sales consultant with Pulte Homes, gives a tour of the "Madison" model home at Berkshire Park in Windermere this week.

Since the D.R. Horton home building company made its big $5 million land purchase of 127 acres in north Raleigh in late March, multiple national and regional homebuilder groups have followed suit with similarly impressive buys throughout the Triangle region.

In trading on Tuesday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.7%. Leading the group were shares of Desarrolladora Homex S A DE , up about 4.3% and shares of Pultegroup up about 4% on the day.

Wall Street was facing the same headwinds as Europe through Friday morning - the possibility of a Greek cataclysm and an existential threat to the euro.

In trading on Friday, general contractors & builders shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Lennar , down about 4.4% and shares of Pultegroup off about 3.9% on the day.

Homebuilders were on the move higher Tuesday, with the SPDR S&P Homebuilders gaining 0.6%. The misplaced catalyst for the group arrived from the National Association of Homebuilders , which published its Housing Market Index .

Builder honored PulteGroup and DSLD as the fastest-growing public and private home builders in 2011 during the 26th annual Builder 100 Awards presentation in New York on May 15.

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Pulte Homes is asking for a rezoning of about 6.9 acres at 9600 and 9700 Wade Ardey Road to build roughly 30 homes.

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Chrysler, now part of Fiat S.p.A., is no longer on the list because of its Italian ownership, and PulteGroup of Bloomfield Hills did not make the cut this year.

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Shares of the following companies had unusual moves in U.S. trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 4 p.m. in New York.

Masco gets a boost from an upgrade to Sector Perform on valuation at RBC Capital this morning, based on what it sees as a recovery taking place in the housing market.

A survey from PulteGroup - one of the nation's largest home builders - has found a surprising result: Many renters want to buy homes.

Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based PulteGroup reported a net loss of $12 million for the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a net loss of $40 million in the prior-year quarter.

A majority of renters who have been considering a home purchase intend to do so within the next two years, according to a survey conducted by home builder PulteGroup.