To provide a variety of workspace options into floorplans, homebuilders can be creative by adding offices to accommodate more than one person, showcase flexible spaces that can function as a home office when needed or integrate offices into otherwise unused or underused spaces in homes like niches or extra closets.

This is the sixth straight month in which at least 70 percent of all U.S. metros have qualified for the Improving Markets Index, according to the NAHB.

Blue Wolf Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, announced that its portfolio company, American Builders Supply, Inc., an independent supplier of doors, windows and trusses to homebuilders in Florida, has appointed Ben Phillips to its Board of Directors.

KB Home, one of America's premier homebuilders, today reported results for its first quarter ended February 29, 2012.

Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC, the New York-based private equity firm, announced that Blue Wolf Capital Fund II through an affiliate, has acquired substantially all of the assets of American Builders Supply, the largest independent supplier of doors, windows and trusses to homebuilders in Florida.

NAHB's homebuilder's index shows 23 individual housing markets improving under its new gauge's parameters.

Builder confidence held steady in Sept. on the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, dipping one point to 14.

The wood builder is focusing on educating clients.