builder
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On the same measure, home builder Lennar is back to housing bust levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Raised in Queens, the son of a builder and a dressmaker, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife of 41 years, Katherine, and still takes the subway to watch his beloved Knicks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Most towns and local governments have rules on how big a lot must be for a builder to construct a single-family home on it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
In his 2010 autobiography, My Life on Mars, he recalled a builder stopping him in The Open University car park to shake his hand.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
When the sun set, the builder mounted his horse and set off for the mountains to gather his first rocks.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
To drive builders to construct eligible homes, the measure would allow them to opt into a “qualified builder” option.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Dozens of builders had been working on the upper floors when it collapsed, but managed to emerge largely unscathed.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
A September John Burns Research & Consulting Survey says two-thirds of builders reported labor force disruptions, up from 13% a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
With buyer traffic to newly built homes at the lowest level since April 2012, excluding the onset of the pandemic, 43% of home builders are cutting prices in October.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
And with the sugar-phosphate backbone placed on the outside, and the general parameters of the measurements ascertained, the model builders could begin the most exacting phase of model building.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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