Greenwood Village, Colorado-based home builder, Century Communities, has purchased Atlanta’s No. 2 home builder, Peachtree Communities. With this purchase, Century Communities now has a foothold in the Southeast and the nation’s fifth largest housing marketing [Atlanta] according to Metrostudy. “The sheer size of it [Atlanta] makes it attractive,” says Dale Francescon, Co-CEO of Century. “The other thing that makes it attractive,[...]
In case you missed our post on who Atlanta's top 10 homebuilders in 2012 were, or, if you're just visual in nature, here's the data again in infographic form. Atlanta's Top 10 Builders vs. Other Atlanta Builders D.R. Horton-6.2 percent Pulte Homes-5.5 percent Crown Communities-5 percent Peachtree Communities-4.7 percent Ashton Woods Homes-4.1 percent Wilson Parker Homes-3.5 percent Ryland Homes-2.7 percent Lennar-2.7 percent Beazer Homes-2.4 percent Traton Homes-2.4 percent Other Builders-61 percent Atlanta Top[...]
The housing industry has been buzzing over the recent headlines that Pulte Homes and Centex Homes are merging. Pulte will buy Centex in a $3.1 billion, stock for stock agreement. The merger of these two companies would result in creating the nation's largest builder with 39,000 closings in 2008. We are excited to see the what impact the company will[...]