Ryland Group Incorporated

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. builders broke ground on fewer homes in April, one month after topping the 1 million mark for the first time since 2008. But most of the decline was in apartment construction, which tends to vary sharply from month to month....

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders rebounded this month, reflecting improved sales trends during the spring home-selling season and the strongest outlook for sales over the next six months in more than six years. The National Association of Home...

May 14 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Yahoo and Microsoft, on Tuesday. HIGHLIGHTS * Yahoo : Goldman Sachs raises target to $30 from $27; rating conviction list buy...

It's been a long time since Wall Street analysts were on conference calls with publicly traded homebuilders, congratulating executives on a great quarter. But that's what's been happening, as one publicly held national homebuilder after another has...

April 26 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Amazon, Wynn Resorts and Celgene, on Friday. HIGHLIGHTS * Amazon.com Inc : JP Morgan, others cut price target on the...

April 25 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Apple, Boeing and Eli Lilly, on Thursday. HIGHLIGHTS * Apple : Hilliard Lyons raises to buy from long-term buy -...

Reports: MBA mortgage index for week ended April 20, 6 a.m.; Durable goods orders for March, 7:30 a.m.; Crude inventories for week ended April 20, 9:30 a.m. Local earnings: Boeing Co., First Midwest Bancorp Inc., Horace Mann Educators Corp., Morningstar...

April 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Caterpillar and Halliburton, on Tuesday. HIGHLIGHTS * Caterpillar Inc : JP Morgan raises to overweight from neutral *...

Enterprise Community Partners, a Columbia-based organization that helps people around the country find affordable housing, is itself getting a new home but staying in Columbia. After considering numerous locations, the nonprofit founded by James and...

As a further sign of its investment in the revitalization of Columbia's town center, the Howard Hughes Corp. last week acquired the former Ryland Group headquarters, a nine-story office building next to The Mall in Columbia and close to land where...

The following are real estate transactions recorded in Harford County during November 2011: Lisa C. Stone from Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 923 Edmund St., $127,777, 11/1. Jeffrey Lynn Hinte from Jeffrey Lynn Hinte, 521 Windemere Drive,...

The Ryland Group, one of the nation's largest home builders, has agreed to pay $625,000 in penalties for storm-water pollution violations at construction sites in 14 states, including Maryland. The settlement, announced by the U.S. Justice Department and...