The market builders, Santoro says, are "doing good while doing well".
The first group, the market builders, are improving human rights in China, he points out, simply through their presence there.
In the booming real estate market, builders or remodelers of larger homes are finding that a full-size pool table (eight feet long, or nine feet for championship and most antique models) can have a lot of uses besides being a place to make judicious wagers (a practice that went out of style with stogies, anyway).
In many markets, builders cannot compete with the price of foreclosures.
We need market-makers to invest, incentivise and build these new forms of business; and we need market-builders, to develop the critical infrastructure that supports new approaches and metrics.
Investors also got a less-than-enthusiastic reading on the housing market from builder D.R. Horton, which reported a wider-than-anticipated loss in its fourth-quarter.
But according to Stephen J. Melman, director of economic services for the association, which is the home builders' trade group, in the current sluggish housing market, fewer builders are relying solely on models, and more are turning to real estate agents.
"That says the market for builders is still awful.
Also, after a decade-long downturn in the residential market here, builders and construction workers are scarce.
In a buoyant market the builders would be going full tilt, but so far only around 100 homes have gone up, most for publicly supported housing.
