KB Home launched the company's first net-zero-energy home in January 2011.

KB Home specializes in the type of suburban tract development that the New Urbanist movement opposes.

Shares of KB Home fell 96 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $51.60 yesterday.

KB Home has 483 communities under development in 13 states and expects to complete more than 40,000 new homes this year.

Focus on Market Research One area in which KB Home takes pride is its market research.

So KB Home offers them all.

Q. Recently, KB Home said that orders fell 12 percent in the first quarter from a year ago.

During his time in France, KB Home grew into one of France's largest homebuilders.

During his tenure as CEO, KB Home became a Fortune 500 company.

He recommends KB Home of Los Angeles, which trades at $32.37.