Neal Communities has risen to #67, up from last year’s #94, on BUILDER magazine’s top home builder rankings, based on number of closings in the United States in 2011. With 384 closings, the new ranking represents a 41% increase from 2010, which was the first year Neal Communities made the top 100 list. “To make such a giant leap on this list is a remarkable accomplishment for my team,” said Pat Neal, president of Neal Communities. “We have had three years of tremendous growth, which has allowed us to move forward [...]

National Experts gathered at New College this week to talk housing and what’s next for this crazy crisis that we are all hoping is coming to the end.It has become common water cooler talk, Facebook fodder and the hot topic of discussion at my daughter’s soccer practice: Why keep an asset that is severely depreciated and not increasing in value any time soon? At a certain point, as one parent put it, it really just becomes a business decision. As Americans have watched major corporations like Simon (the largest shopping [...]