Article: Walter Industries Homebuilding Subsidiary Acquires Texas-Based Dream Homes, Inc.

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Walter Homes, Inc., the homebuilding and mortgage financing subsidiary of Walter Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WLT), today announced that it has acquired Texas-based builder Dream Homes, Inc. in an all-cash purchase.

Like Jim Walter Homes, Dream Homes is an "on-your-lot" builder of detached, single-family homes on customer-owned property. Dream currently builds approximately 170 homes annually at an average selling price of $83,000, generating revenues of approximately $14 million from sales offices in Dallas, Houston, Cleveland and New Braunfels, Texas.

Jim Walter Homes, with 117 sales locations in 19 Sunbelt and ...

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