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Special Report from IBS: Unsettled Housing Industry
Feb 14, 2008

“What a difference a year makes,” noted Bill Donges, CEO of the Atlanta-based Lane Co. during a press conference about the state of the multi-family industry held on the first day of the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Teresa O’Dea Hein, managing editor of Multi-Housing News has reported. “This last year proves that real estate indeed is cyclical.” Despite the challenges in the housing industry, over 90,000 people are reportedly in attendance here—the convention’s last year in Orlando until 2011—for the 64th annual convention and exposition sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Over 1,900 exhibiting companies are also here in force to showcase new and popular building products. At the press conference, Donges reported that in the last year, Lane was able to switch over about 8,000 units that had been originally slated as condos to be developed as apartments instead. To see the complete story, reported by our sister publication Multi-Housing News, click here.

 
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