Orleans Homebuilders (OHB) prefers the City of Brotherly Love to The Big Easy. OHB builds communities of single-family homes, condos, and townhomes for first-time and move-up buyers, luxury homebuyers, empty nesters, and active adult homebuyers. Prices range from $165,000 to more than $2.3 million, depending on the region. OHB operates mainly in the Philadelphia metro area, New Jersey, New York, the Carolinas, and Virginia. It is also active in Orlando and Chicago. OHB also offers mortgage services, which approximately three-fourths of its buyers utilize. Hit hard by the US housing downturn, OHB filed for Chapter 11 protection in early 2010, seeking to restructure its debts.

company builds single-family homes and townhouses in the Orlando and Tampa area. Park Square Homes has developed about 20 planned communities and subdivisions across central Florida that range in price from the mid-$100,000s for a townhouse to about $1 million for a custom home in a gated waterfront community. The company offers about 30 floor plans for its townhouse models and more than 50 floor plans for detached houses. Park Square Homes markets many of its homes as vacation or resort homes due to its proximity to Central Florida's vacation hotspots. The company was founded in 1984.

Persimmon is enjoying the fruits of its hard labor. One of the UK's largest homebuilders, the company designs and constructs homes, bungalows, and apartments; its Charles Church division builds larger luxury homes. Working with the UK government, Persimmon also undertakes social housing projects through its Westbury Partnerships business and its Space4 timber-frame housing operations. Persimmon's land bank is one of the largest in the country, with some 76,000 plots. The company constructs more than 15,000 homes annually, with an average selling price of around 185,000.

Redrow, a major homebuilder in England, Scotland, and Wales, completes around 2,000 homes annually through its regional Redrow Homes subsidiary companies. The slow housing market has Redrow refocusing its efforts on more mid-market residential homes and moving away from apartment, three-story, and starter homes. It is also building mixed-use residential developments and, through its Redrow Regeneration division, renovating brownfields and other commercial properties. Redrow homes have an average price of about $219,000. The group's land bank has some 13,000 plots. Founder and chairman Steve Morgan now controls about 30% of Redrow.

Richmond American Homes believes in enriching lives through home ownership. Encompassing the homebuilding subsidiaries of M.D.C. Holdings (MDC), Richmond American is one of the top homebuilders in Colorado and operates in othe US markets, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah, northern Virginia, and West Virginia. The company also provides mortgage financing, insurance and title services, primarily for MDC homebuyers, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency and American Home Title and Escrow. Richmond American targets first-time and move-up buyers.

Russell Armer turns brownfield sites into vibrant, beautifully landscaped housing developments. The builder is one of the largest independently-owned new homebuilders in the Cumbria and north Lancashire region of England, and it has been building for more than 40 years. Russell Armer designs and constructs new houses and apartments that range in price from about 170,000 to more than 400,000. Some of its developments have won "Green Leaf" awards, which recognize the importance of creating whole living environments rather than just building new homes. Russell Armer is a subsidiary of Russell Armer Holdings Limited.

Russell Eppright Custom Homes specializes in custom residential projects in and around Austin, Texas, and on the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country. The company builds homes in the $500,000 to $2 million range. In 1996 president Russell Eppright acquired the assets of Russell Parker Homes (where he had previously served as a superintendent of custom-home construction) and renamed the company.

S&A Custom Built Homes (S&A Homes) builds homes and develops residential communities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The company offers more than 200 basic floor plans that can be customized to meet customer needs. The homes range in size from about 1,200 sq. ft. to more than 3,800 sq. ft. S&A Homes offers a variety of styles, ranging from one-story ranch, bi-level, and split-level homes to Cape Cod-style and two-story homes. The company operates from more than 15 offices in the southern half of Pennsylvania and two in West Virginia (Martinsburg and Bridgeport).

Saussy Burbank has a sassy attitude when it comes to building what a homeowner wants. The company constructs single-family, detached homes in communities in the Raleigh and Charlotte areas of North Carolina and in the Charleston area of South Carolina. Its houses feature two to six bedrooms and range in price from the $100,000s to $600,000. Saussy Burbank uses classic designs, contemporary floor plans, and affordable pricing to create its "customer-centered" homes. Formed in 1988, the group has built more than 5,000 new homes. The firm was acquired by The St. Joe Company in 1999, and sold to Charles Teal, Jim Burbank, and a group of North Carolina real estate professionals in 2007.

Seddon Homes, a speculative housing subsidiary of privately held construction group Seddon Group Limited, builds residences from one and two-bedroom apartments to three-story luxury homes primarily in the Cheshire area of England. The company develops brownfield and greenfield real estate and also refurbishes homes. Seddon Homes delivers about 100 homes annually. The homes generally cost from 135,000 to more than 450,000. The company got its start back in 1897 when brothers George and John Seddon established a building firm in Little Hulton, Manchester.

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