In Manatee, it’s a builder buying binge: Economic slump’s survivors are now picking up pieces of victims
May 10–MANATEE – Residential developers and homebuilders who survived the housing bust now are feasting on the remains of those who didn’t. They’ve been on a buying spree, using cash savings to acquire finished, but unbuilt lots and subdivisions that have been stalled or lost to foreclosure or bankruptcy. They’re paying up to 75 percent [...] Read more








