Article: Local leaders: the top 10 builders in the top 50 markets across the country.(Industry Overview)

LAST YEAR WAS A GOOD YEAR for builders in the country's top 50 metropolitan areas. As they did in 2000, builders in these markets took home more than half the total number of single-family permits issued, accounting for 634,899 such permits in 2001, or 52 percent of the total 1,221,200 permits issued in the 430 metropolitan areas the U.S. Census Bureau tracks. The size of the 430 areas varied from 10 permits in Pittsfield, Mass., to 48,428 in Atlanta. (By comparison, the 50th market--Monmouth/Ocean, N.J.--issued 5,320 single-family permits last year.)

BIG BUILDERS

Three builders were tops in 19 of the 50 markets in 2001: Lennar and Pulte each were No. 1 ...

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