We're not a state of big spec builders - that's for sure. That's good for the consumer.
More competition means more choices and better values.
Twice as many home builders left the trade last year as joined it. The 740 builders entering the trade produced a collective 1,219 homes. Most of the 1,488 builders absent from 2000's market had only built a single home in 1999. Snow said he doesn't know what the traffic in and out of the home-building trade means. Builder totals for this year should clarify things, too.