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• To Stay Competitive, Builders Need to Run their Companies More Efficiently, and One of the Best Ways is to Use the Latest Software Technology

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• Builder MR's Business Process Management Software Lets Builders Build Workflow Processes

  Builder MT’s BPM tool automates dozens of standard business processes.

• AEC Software's FastTrack Offers Green Building Templates

  AEC Software offers a green template for its FastTrack 9 project management software.

• Builder Blocks: The Week in Review

  S&P report calms the market; Freddie Mac chairman sees more declines ahead for home prices; Nevada's first solar community launched; HBAs say now is the time to buy; BUILDER catches you up with the news you might have missed.

• Standard & Poor's Report Calms The Market

  S&P report says there's an end in sight for the subprime write-down process, news that offers hope that the housing market and overall economy may stabilize later this year.

• Freddie Mac Chairman Sees More Declines Ahead For Home Prices

  Dick Syron tells investors housing prices will bottom out at a 15 percent loss.

• Toll Brothers Compensation Plan Approved

  Despite objections by proxy group, shareholders give OK to new cash bonus plan.

• Hovnanian Enterprises Has First-Quarter Loss of $169 Million

  Company’s lot position is down 51 percent from its peak in 2006.

• KB Home Exits Three Markets

  Big builder leaves regions where it had a small footprint.