Arizona home builders buying up land once again

Homebuilders are buying land again in metropolitan Phoenix. So far this year, according to the Arizona brokerage firm Land Advisors, homebuilders here have spent $90 million on land purchases for new homes. That's the most builders have invested in the region's land in any year since the peak of the housing boom in 2006. New land purchases are a sign the cycle is stirring to life again in a retooled housing industry. The parcels of land and the pool of builders buying them are both much smaller than before the real- estate crash. But residential lot prices are climbing as a steady stream of purchases by builders the past six months restarts the region's new-home industry.

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