After they purchased a 21-acre plot of land in rural Summerville, GA, one couple set out to build their dream home on the ...

The trend grew and shipping container homes are popular even today. In case you're not totally sold on the idea of owning a ...

Are shipping container homes actually good for the environment? The reality is more complex than it appears on the surface.

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

The Neighborhood Center of West Volusia is rolling ahead with a roughly $1 million experiment in small-scale housing on its ...

At a typical home construction site, two-by-four beams build the skeleton of a home. Insulation and drywall complete the inner walls. A roof is placed on top; in Florida it’s usually made of shingles, ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A Pinellas Park business is thinking outside the box when it comes to giving people the option of high-quality, inexpensive container builds and modifications. The container ...

We all know real estate can be really interesting in the Granite State, from homes tucked into New Hampshire mountains, or lake- and ocean-front finds, or gems in quaint towns across the state. There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten massive dumpsters of debris hauled away and six years later, the property has completely transformed into a rental community ...

In the Fishers Nickel Plate District south of 116 th Street, developers have built dozens of modern homes on small lots where bungalows once stood. The custom and semi-custom 3-story townhouses ...

Fort Wayne has more people than current housing can handle, and the population is expected to keep growing at a brisk pace, according to county data. The city’s population growth is more than double ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...