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The Motley Fool January 16, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Tomb, Sweet Tomb Publicly traded homebuilders are the sector's strongest players, yet they continue to show steeper drops in new home orders than deliveries. Speculators are simply trying their luck at catching falling knives.
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 December 15, 2011 Neha Chamaria	4 Reasons to Start Taking This Homebuilder Seriously Toll Brothers is one of the few homebuilders worth watching.
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 March 5, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Stealing Home The housing sector is still standing tall, but is it a house of cards? The housing sector is still hot, but showing signs of cooling off. While Rick Aristotle Munarriz feels that many -- including himself -- have underestimated the length and the strength of the industry's bullish run, there are plenty of reasons to be cautious.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Return to Centex Centex joins the long line of homebuilders with slipping fundamentals. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Dumb Move, WCI If the next few quarters continue to eat away at the real estate developer's fundamentals, it's in every potential buyer's interest -- including Carl Icahn's -- to wait as long as possible. Absent a turnaround, WCI will continue to deteriorate.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Lennar's Dream Home Management at this residential homebuilder is still ebullient about the future of new home demand in the U.S. While the company has posted solid earnings, forward valuations suggest some investors don't expect it to last.
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 August 23, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Toll No Longer on a Roll Toll Brothers released third-quarter earnings today, giving investors its current take on where the homebuilding cycle may be heading. Investors breathed a sigh of relief, bidding the shares up a couple of percentage points.
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 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 April 28, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Homebuilder Stocks Getting Creaky A.G. Edwards marks down the sector, just as many investors already have. None of this spells a complete collapse of an industry that has fortified itself over the past few gravy years.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Could This Homebuilder Be a Good Long-Term Bet? Toll Brothers reports falling revenue but higher losses.
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 April 9, 2009 Rich Smith	Pulte Needs Better Ideas The merger with Centex makes some sense for Pulte -- but fails to address the real problem.
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 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 September 22, 2006 Todd Wenning	The Homebuilder Blues After a red-hot three-year run, the homebuilding industry has certainly fallen on hard times. Are these stocks undervalued?
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 David Lee Smith	Three More on the Housing Slide Three more homebuilders, Meritage Homes, Pulte, and Centex, have reported, all demonstrating that builders are still hurting.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2007 David Lee Smith	Housing Schizophrenia The homebuilders and the Realtors give very different reads on housing's health. What's an investor to believe?
The Motley Fool December 16, 2003 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Lennar Has Its Day Lennar announced record results for fiscal 2003. Low interest rates are great for home builders, but their P/E ratios remain low because of large risk.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Anders Bylund	Dueling Fools: Homebuilder Bull Rebuttal The bulls feel that even if you mistime the rebound, the best homebuilder stocks will still win big.
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 August 28, 2007 David Lee Smith	Housing's Increased Signs of Trouble The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2008 David Lee Smith	Skittish Buyers Still Taking Their Toll Toll could be the first builder to recover, but it's still suffering.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Why I Am Not Expecting a Turnaround in This Company Soon Closures and orders have risen, backlogs have gone up, but Beazer needs more time to recover.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	KB Home's California Dreaming The homebuilder blows past estimates, but are its shares -- and those of its rivals -- overpriced?
The Motley Fool July 6, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	What If Housing Never Bounces Back? One can only imagine the doomsday scenario as selling prices head even lower if affordability becomes a bigger problem when rates climb higher.
The Motley Fool February 1, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Pulte My Finger As expected, it was a humbling quarter for Pulte Homes.
The Motley Fool August 14, 2008 Rich Smith	This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Citi is emphasizing housing stocks boasting sufficient liquidity to ride out a multiyear storm, and argues that liquidity is more solid at both Pulte and Toll Brothers than at their rivals.
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 October 19, 2005 W.D. Crotty	A Homebuilder with a Weakness NVR reports a strong third quarter. This would be a great company for investors -- if they could stop cranking out the options.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Cracks in Lennar's Foundation? Are fewer orders and increased incentives temporary phenomena, or warning signs for investors in this home builder?
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 September 25, 2007 Seth Jayson	Housing Takes Another Header The latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Index shows that home prices are not only dropping like rocks, in many places, the rate of drop is increasing.
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 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 18, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Don't Miss This Homebuilder Turnaround Higher orders, higher backlog, profits, and encouraging industry signs mean good things for D.R. Horton.
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 July 30, 2004 Rich Duprey	Beazer's No Bowzer The homebuilder reports rising profits and expectations in the industry.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2012 Neha Chamaria	This Homebuilder Has a Long Way to Go KB Home still has some work to do before it becomes the homebuilder to watch out for
The Motley Fool May 24, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Palm Reading Palm Harbor Homes doesn't catch the real estate flu. The stock trades at a richer, double-digit earnings multiple than the larger developers. The premium may be money well spent, though, given the price that investors are willing to pay for a sturdier roof in this tenuous sector.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Sham Gad	Are the Homebuilders a Bargain? Margin of safety or value trap? Investors, at one-time book value, the investment thesis becomes very different.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2010 Michael Johnston	Homebuilder ETFs Face a Tough Road Ahead With government support of the housing market drawing to a close, investors have been unsure of exactly what to expect from the housing market.
The Motley Fool October 7, 2011 Neha Chamaria	Keep an Eye on This Homebuilder Turnaround Lennar has reported a profit for the sixth straight quarter.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	KO at KB KB Home warns, but no one is surprised. Investors, eventually there will be a time to climb back in. So dig into due diligence now to find attractive players, but keep that hardhat on.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2010 Andrew Bond	Is Less Homebuilding a Bad Thing? The latest numbers from the homebuilding industry aren't as sobering as you might think.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2006 Tim Hanson	The Worst Stock for 2007: Toll Brothers There are no values if there aren't value traps. Toll Brothers is a stock to avoid.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 David Lee Smith	Housing's Schizophrenic Day April new-home sales and Toll Brothers' earnings only seemed to tell different stories. Investors, this industry clearly isn't out of the woods yet.