An Introduction to USA Home Builders

USA has witnessed the growth of many a homebuilding corporation in the past 50 years. All these corporations, besides striving to provide affordable, energy-efficient homes to both common as well as the upscale homebuyer, are leaving no stone unturned to realize the dreams of their customers.

Growth of Home Building Corporations in America

All these homebuilders are into constructing standard homes, apartments, housing communities and single-family homes keeping in minds the needs and visions of their buyers. The housing market in America is extremely promising today, owing to the steep fall in prices due to the recent global meltdown. New Homebuilders are sprouting all over the place. This can be seen from the simple fact the number of homebuilding corporations in Houston alone has crossed the 1000 mark.

Financial Assistance

Besides homebuilding corporations, a number of financial agencies have come as well, most of which are subsidiaries of homebuilders. These agencies are making the process of procuring home loans as well as the process of buying and selling houses, streamlined and extremely convenient.

Getting a decent home mortgage loan from a decent home mortgage company isn’t difficult at all.

THE HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

A number of National Level organizations have come up that are actively working to protect the rights of consumers. These are:

National Association of Home Builders

NAHB or the National Association of Home Builders, with its headquarters in Washington, DC represents more than 235,000 in the remodeling industry as well as residential home buildings in USA. Every Year, NAHB recognizes and awards homebuilders for excellent work in their respective areas of expertise. For example, The Pillars Award is awarded to homebuilders for exquisite work in multi-family constructions.

USA today has over 110 million housing units out of which, 76 million are owner occupied while the rest are on rent. The National Housing Association also stays alert on new issues related to long-standing projects. 

International Builders’ Show

IBS is a one of a kind association that provides a platform to hundreds of exhibitors from all around the globe to showcase their talents, products and services. Besides this, IBS is also educating homebuilders across America on the latest issues that the industry is facing along with and all current trends in the market.

Homebuilders in America today are constructing well-planned communities all across the nation.

American Homebuilders can be classified into four major categories. These are:

Custom Builders

As the name would’ve already suggested, custom homebuilders are into building homes exactly according to the needs and wants of the customer. These homes are constructed strictly according to individual tastes and as a result are generally expensive.

Semi-Custom Builders

Semi-Customs builder’s work according to a set plan of action while incorporating specific changes and details according to the needs of the individuals who will be staying in them. Needless to say, the homes are constructed with a specific, shape and size in mind, however, its interiors may be changed accordingly.

Production Builders

Production building is carried out buy a number of major as well as regular homebuilders in America. The term is used to indicate high levels of construction where a number of homes are built in a given area with little or no room for the individuals’ say.

Small Volume Builders

Homebuilders that construct less than 25 homes in a year are known as small volume builders.

TOP HOME BUILDERS IN AMERICA

Here’s a list:

• Pulte Homes Inc.
• Dale Alcock
• Beazer Homes USA Inc.
• Centex Homes (Currently Stands merged with Pulte Homes Inc.)
• D.R. Horton Homebuilders Inc.
• KB Homes
• Lennar Corporation
• K. Hovnanian Homes
• Ryland Group Inc.
• MDC holdings Inc.
• NVR Inc.
• Ryan Homes