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The Motley Fool November 27, 2007 Seth Jayson	Home Prices Even More Horrid All over the U.S., home prices are dropping at a record pace, as confirmed by the S&P's Case-Shiller home price index for Q3.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Seth Jayson	Harvest Time for Homebuilders Hovnanian Enterprises drops house prices $100,000. Expect other home-builders to follow.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2007 David Lee Smith	More Useful Housing Data, Please! If the Realtors, the Department of Commerce, or the National Association of Home Builders put more effort into the types of numbers they released, investors would be better able to judge how soon the likes of Centex, Pulte, Lennar, Hovnanian, and Toll Brothers might recover from the current crisis.
The Motley Fool May 29, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Housing Is Booming ... Somewhere You can't escape the media's obsession with the housing apocalypse. Yet in some areas of the country, the housing boom continues unabated. Real estate prices depend a lot on local conditions.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 David Lee Smith	Another Dose of Bad Builder News The latest negative housing numbers, released by the Commerce Department early this week, showed that the sales rate of new houses was lower last year than any time since we started keeping track of housing figures.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Mac Greer	Fool Video: Housing Stocks Gone Wild? Housing stocks rebound after more horrible news. Has all the bad news already been built into the stock prices of homebuilders? Should investors move in to housing stocks? Those questions are answered in this video.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2007 Seth Jayson	Burning Down the House Builders Housing market woes continue to plague homebuilders with the release of the latest new home sales figures.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2007 David Lee Smith	Hovnanian's Housing Hoedown Hovnanian sells 2,100 houses in a three-day, $100,000 off sale. Does this cut-and-slash approach make sense for other beleaguered builders?
The Motley Fool December 23, 2011 Morgan Housel	Robert Shiller on Why Home Prices Could Fall for Several Decades After the housing market does bottom, what you should expect from it going forward?
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Selena Maranjian	"Home Prices Plunge!" Calm down -- the news isn't as bad as it seems. What should we investors and homeowners make of this development?
The Motley Fool October 4, 2010 Selena Maranjian s	Hold Your Horses on Housing A recovery probably isn't around the corner.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 Rich Duprey	Worst Stock for 2009: Hovnanian Enterprises Which 10 companies should you keep out of your portfolio? Find out in our special series on the Worst Stocks for 2009. Here, take a look at why you stay away from this home-wrecker.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 David Lee Smith	Take a Hiatus From Housing With the housing market a mess, perhaps this is a good time to take a hiatus from it, and research sectors of the market that are more promising.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Seth Jayson	Quick Take: Another Reason I Know the Bottom's Not In Why should the residents of a half-built complex shell out for infrastructure Lennar deems necessary? Because Lennar needs something to show shareholders.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2007 Dan Caplinger	What to Do When Your House Won't Sell Times may be tough for people trying to sell their homes, but that doesn't mean you're doomed to failure. There are things you can do to best handle the struggling real estate market.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2007 Rich Duprey	This Dead Cat Won't Bounce For the third consecutive day, shares of some of the biggest homebuilders rallied. Investors, beware, all data indicates that housing won't be doing well for a very long time to come.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Have You Noticed the Interesting Pickup in This Sector? Three factors hint at improvements in the housing sector.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Seth Jayson	Quick Take: Golf Clap for Lennar Homebuilder Lennar presents their horrible quarterly numbers with a straightforward approach.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Is Housing Headed for the Basement? When the National Association of Realtors begins disseminating negative news, it must be bad.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2004 Rich Duprey	Beazer's No Bowzer The homebuilder reports rising profits and expectations in the industry.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2012 Neha Chamaria	Why There May Still Be Time For This Homebuilder's Turnaround Hovnanian's fourth-quarter losses make better days for the company look far away
The Motley Fool November 3, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Turnaround? Downturn? Oh, What a Mess! Is there really a reason to be optimistic about homebuilder stocks.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Racing to the Bottom in Housing KB Homes reports the same tough conditions as everyone else, but are estimates finally low enough? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2012 Robert Eberhard	Earnings Will Drive This Industry Higher Some recent housing numbers point to a better year for home builders.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Horton Hears a Hooray Homebuilders are taking over the S&P 500, but it may be too late to crash this house party. It does seem that investors are starting to tire of real estate stocks.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 David Lee Smith	5 Steps Necessary for a Housing Cure Here are five reasons why the housing sector is in such a pickle, and by examining them we can see more clearly what needs to be done to make it so that the sun again shines on our nation's housing sector.
The Motley Fool November 28, 2007 Seth Jayson	Realtors Fiddle While Home Sales Sink The National Association of Realtors sets a new low in reporting, continuing to insist that all is well in the housing market, despite a 21% drop in year-over-year home sales and a 15% increase in inventory.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Seth Jayson	More Housing Bull The NAR praises pending home sales numbers. Big surprise. The moral of the story for investors of all stripes: Beware the cycle of enthusiasm and pain.
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 John Gittelsohn	Amid the Ruins, Big Homebuilders Gain Access to funding - and less competition - will help big homebuilders gain market share as home sales begin to recover this year.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	Worst Stock for 2008: Beazer Homes This analyst has selected this troubled company in the troubled housing sector as the worst stock of 2008.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Not Much to Build On at KB Home In advance of third-quarter reports for KB Home, analysts are expecting a loss; perhaps even a mega-loss.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2007 David Lee Smith	Are the Builders Getting Bored? The builders still aren't happy, and -- surprise -- they're not as busy as they used to be.
The Motley Fool January 19, 2012 Matt Thalman	Don't Double Dip in Housing If you are a homeowner, you shouldn't buy the homebuilders.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 David Lee Smith	No Light in Horton's Tunnel The homebuilder D.R. Horton saw earnings plummet 85% year over year, and management foresees no real improvement.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2008 David Lee Smith	The Housing Roundup Let's take a quick look at recent housing news and events and try to predict the group's future.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2008 David Lee Smith	For This, We Need Harvard? After two years, the news for the avoid-at-all-cost builders is still worsening.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2006 Seth Jayson	Another Housing Hoohah Did new home sales really drop last month? Not according to the numbers. Investing in companies that ride macroeconomic trends is never easy, and that's nowhere more evident than in the housing sector.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	What Housing Bubble? Lennar debunks the housing bubble pin pushers. Again. Real estate developers are doing just fine. The housing boom may be a bubble, but it's apparently wrapped in a much thicker skin than industry pundits are giving it credit for.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2007 David Lee Smith	Two More Homebuilders Get Nailed Pulte and Beazer become the latest large homebuilders to sink into loss positions. Investors without a longer than average time horizon are urged to avoid this sector.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2007 Seth Jayson	Home Prices Just Keep Crashing The only thing left to wonder is why the media consistently reports on a return to normalcy in home sales and home pricing as if it's a bad thing. Sure, it hurts. But there's no such thing as free money, at least not forever.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2005 Rich Duprey	Roof Collapses on Housing Sales and prices of new single-family housing fall; is bad weather to blame?
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 David Lee Smith	Horton Hammered Hard Yes, the quarterly results were more than half again better than a year ago. But the losses are still relatively large and aren't falling at a rate that would indicate that the end of the company's travails is near.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Marko Djuranovic	Why Housing Prices Are Nearing Bottom It seems that, for the most part, current housing prices are nearing bottom, thanks to forces other than loose lending standards and a corresponding spike in demand.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 David Lee Smith	Battered Builders Falling Faster As part of a horrible week for housing, big builders lined up with huge quarterly losses. In the midst of this continuously declining set of circumstances, investors are urged to build a barrier between themselves and the battered builders.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2006 Seth Jayson	Housing Cheerleaders Losing Pep When the NAR issues a feel-bad press release, we should pay attention. Unfortunately, this may be too little, too late. After all, the NAR has been quietly admitting, for a few weeks now, that things are getting ugly in a lot of markets, and that a correction was necessary.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Sean Williams	I Call Shenanigans on This Economic Indicator Don't believe everything an indicator tells you! Although we have the highest level of optimism among homebuilders since June 2007, I'm still going to call shenanigans on this indicator.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2009 Rich Smith	This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Citigroup has gifted one homebuilder, Lennar, with a long-awaited upgrade.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2007 Seth Jayson	Quick Take: Realtors Get Desperate The National Association of Realtors announces a nationwide advertising campaign designed to counter recent negative housing reports in the media.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2004 Lawrence Meyers	Pulte's Prices Plummet A month ago, Pulte Homes cut prices on homes in 18 of its 23 Nevada developments, sparking an investor sell-off that took the company's stock down 23%.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Jordan DiPietro	Housing Stocks Get Hammered Housing stocks plunge after disappointing sales report.