PULTE HOMES

'Pulte Homes, Inc' () is a Bloomfield Hills, MI based company founded by Bill Pulte. Pulte is the second largest (by units) builders of homes and residential community developers in the United States and is the nation's largest builder of active adult communities for people 55 years of age and older. Pulte Mortgage LLC is the lending division of Pulte Homes.
Pulte's company motto is "Homeowner for Life." Signifying that their business goals are to provide first time homeowners with their first homes and work them up through their signature communities up to an estate size home and even to their retirement homes. Because of their hard working customer service managers, their customer devotion ranks high and records show that compared to other public homebuilders, their repeat buyer business is the highest.
On the building side of the company the company typical hires a Construction Management major, often starting in the Customer Service department. The Customer Service representative then has an option of staying in Customer service or moving into the construction division as a back end superintendent, supervising construction of a home or condo from drywall to completion, then onto front end superintendent, working from beginning of the process until drywall, then onto a project manager, who is in charge of the entire process.

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Operations

Key Statistics

Criticism

References

External links

Operations

'Pulte Homes' operates through two segments, Homebuilding and Financial Services.
:'Homebuilding'

::The Homebuilding segment engages in the acquisition and development of land principally for residential purposes within the continental United States and Puerto Rico, as well as the construction of housing on such land targeted for the first-time, first and second move-up, and active adult home buyers. Pulte has subsidiaries that include Del Webb, which builds retirement communities, and Palm Beach Gardens-based Divosta Homes, a pioneer in the mass-market construction of cast concrete houses. They use pella windows in all of their new home constuction.
:'Financial Services'

::Financial Services segment provides mortgage banking and title operations services. The company serves its customers through its sales team and brokers.

Key Statistics

★ Pulte operates in 53 markets and 27 states.

★ Pulte has built over 500,000 homes during its 50-year history.

★ In 2005, the company delivered 45,630 homes in the U.S.

★ Pulte sales duplexes, townhouses, and condominiums at prices from $62,000 to almost $2.4 million

★ Most of the house are in the $100,000 to $400,000 range (The average is $315,000)

★ Pulte Mortgage Corporation provides lending services.

★ Founder William Pulte owns about 16% of the company

Criticism

In late 2006, early 2007 and still ongoing, Pulte Homes was criticized for building houses that had larger-than-normal cracks in the foundation, inadequate plumbing and poor electrical wiring and overall rather poor to fair build quality. Beginning in May 2007, The Building Justice campaign, supported by the AFL-CIO, targeted Pulte Homes for providing inadequate health care, no overtime pay and no vacation days or sick days for its workers.^[1]. During a subsequent protest at a Pulte Homes construction site, an employee used a water truck owned by the company to repeatedly assault a group of workers picketing outside a home with a high pressure water hose.^[1]. On June 20, 2007, a video of the incident was posted on Youtube.^[3].

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★ Pulte on Google Finance

External links

★ Corporate Site

★ Investor Relations