OFT investigates housebuilding industry
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Business & money: Review to focus on planning process, lack of new houses and customer satisfaction.
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NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH -- By its own modest standards, Massachusetts is experiencing a homebuilding boom. Through the first nine months of 2004, the state issued permits for more than 15,000 units of new housing, up about 10 percent from the same period a year ago. If the current pace continues, Massachusetts would build more housing this year than it has in ...
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The answer, according to a report by the US government-sponsored housing finance agency&#39;s newly invigorated regulator, is that it was as profitable as it wanted to be.
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The building-materials specialist bears the brunt of the downturn.
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Celebrating the opening of a new building in the Round Valley Business Park in Covelo, an open house was held this weekend at the new location of the Covelo Machine and Tool Trade Co., says owner Roland Hoehne.
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The home improvement giant said it's considering selling its wholesale supply business.
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Business & money: Building society damaged by the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US and other one-off charges
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Weak housing market hurting demand for power tools.
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When the housing market was booming, many rushed in to the residential real estate business. Now a growing number of agents are looking for other employment.
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State investigators probing possible corruption are looking into city contracts and scrutinizing renovation work at the mayor's home, The Associated Press has learned.
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A former energy company executive testified yesterday that his employees worked on an expansive reconstruction of the house of Sen. Ted Stevens (R), who is under investigation in a federal probe of corruption among Alaska lawmakers.
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An industry economist helps us understand the ins-and-outs of cement.
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to work with consumer groups, businesses and public bodies to help them exploit opportunities thrown up by the UK's [pound]21.4bn internet shopping market.
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The letter from the insurance company said an inspector would come to look over the house.
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Most industries have some not-so-rosy practices.
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The hard-charging homebuilding stocks are making believers of some investors.