Centex News

Photo courtesy of Pulte Homes [enlarge] Centex is developing Sinclair Woods in Bothell.

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

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

For the homebuilding industry, the past two years have been a disaster. The largest homebuilder in the Nashville area, Pulte, has lost money for three straight years, and overall home-building permits here are less than half of levels seen two years ago.

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 Beazer Homes USA Inc. reports earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Tuesday.

Village officials say The Jones Company has halted sales at River's Edge, an 82-acre residential development launched in 2007 that was expected to have more than 300 homes.

Developers who promised hundreds of homes in a multiple-phase subdivision along Airport Road are suspending their plans.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: Pulte Homes Inc., up 32 cents at $9.55 Pulte lost $361.4 million in the third quarter, but with the acquisition of Centex Corp., new orders increased by more than a third.

Pulte Homes, Inc. November 4, 2009 8:30 am ET Executives Jim Zeumer - " VP of Investor and Corporate Communications Richard Dugas - " Chairman, President and CEO Roger Cregg - " EVP and CFO Steve Petruska - " EVP and COO Mike Schweninger - " VP and Controller Analysts Megan McGrath - " Barclays Capital Michael Rehaut - " JPMorgan Dave Goldberg - " ...

Bloomfield Hills-based Pulte Homes Inc. is now America's largest home builder, but the company it recently acquired, which targets entry-level buyers, will bypass Michigan for now.

Pulte Homes operations have received the highest ranking for the sixth consecutive year for customer satisfaction in the Tucson market, according to the results announced today for the 2009 J.D. Power and Associates New-Home Builder Customer Satisfaction Study SM .

In this combo made from file photos, a Pulte Homes sign is seen at a Pulte Homes complex in Sunnyvale, Calif., top, and a Centex Homes is seen in a subdivision in Lewisvile, Texas.

Deborah Wahl Meyer, former VP-chief marketing officer of Chrysler, has joined Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based home-building company Pulte Homes as senior VP-CMO, a newly created position.

Brian Woram, senior vice president, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer, and really great guy, is leaving Centex to become senior VP and general counsel of Kansas-City based H&R Block.

H&R Block Inc. has hired Brian Woram as senior vice president and general counsel, effective Sept.

GameStop Corp., video game and entertainment software retailer, announced that Catherine R. Smith has joined the company as executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Kansas City-based H&R Block Inc. tapped a housing industry attorney as its new general counsel.

Large building companies in the Myrtle Beach area, which have been sidelined during the real estate slump, have reduced their inventory and started building houses again.

Michael Vesey, the president and chief operating officer of Orleans Homebuilders Inc., has died, the company said Friday.