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Looking for land in all the right places

Published: November 6, 2009 1:46 PM
By The Associated Press ALEX VEIGA (AP Real Estate Writer)

Quick ReadLand market heats up again as homebuilders vie for property in promising markets

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The housing bust left homebuilders with plenty of red ink on their books as they walked away from swaths of land they no longer needed.

But now homebuilders are on the hunt again, vying for choice parcels even in foreclosure-riddled markets like Las Vegas, Southern California and Orlando, Fla., where prices are cheap and there are early signs of a recovery.

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