• A housing recovery certainly seems to have arrived for Meritage Homes, which reported it had 33% more new-home orders in July and August than had come in a year earlier.
• August was the big boom month, with a 410 orders. That was 52% above August 2011. July was ahead 17% year over year, with 374 orders.
• Meritage is the nation's ninth-largest home-builder based on 2011 closings.

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Meritage Homes announced Wednesday that it had received orders for a net total (minus cancellations) of 784 homes in July and August of 2012. ...