Miami-based Lennar Corp., one of the country’s largest homebuilders, on Tuesday reported lower fiscal second quarter earnings that still exceeded analyst expectations. Earnings including noncontrolling interests fell to $200.7 million, or 91 cents a share, from $224 million, or $1.01 a share, in the second period of 2016. Still, the average estimate among eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for Lennar earnings to reach 78 cents a share. Revenue rose... [read more]

  Lennar Homes acquired the long-stalled Silver Palms Southwest project in southern Miami-Dade County for $10.3 million. Madeira Investors, managed by Juan Carlos Rodriguez in St. Augustine, sold the 106 home lots at the southwest corner of Southwest 240th Street and Southwest 117th Avenue to Lennar Homes, an affiliate of Miami-based Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN). The property was platted into home lots in 2007, but no construction took place as the recession set in. The property... [read more]