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M J Gleeson Group has gleefully shedded its noncore operations. The company has sold or otherwise cut loose its rail, concrete, and engineering businesses to focus on three areas: housing regeneration, commercial property development, and strategic land trading. Gleeson Regeneration works with local governments to build urban planning projects under private finance initiatives. Gleeson Commercial Property Development has some 16 properties in development. Gleeson Strategic Land manages the company's land bank, currently at around 2,500 acres. Michael Joseph Gleeson, who was the great-uncle of current chairman Dermot Gleeson, founded the firm in 1903.

M/I has its eye on the homebuilding prize in 10 markets throughout the midwest, mid-Atlantic, and Florida regions. M/I Homes sells single-family detached homes to first-time, move-up, empty-nest, and luxury buyers under the M/I Homes and Showcase Homes names. It delivers more than 2,000 homes a year, at prices ranging from about $90,000 to $1.3 million (averaging $231,000) and sizes ranging from 1,200 to 4,400 sq. ft. The company has an exclusive arrangement with retailer Sherwin-Williams to supply paint, stain, and other coatings for its homes. M/I Homes also builds attached townhomes and condominiums in select markets. Its M/I Financial mortgage banking subsidiary provides title and mortgage services.

Mapledean Developments Limited develops real estate and builds homes in the South Hampshire area in and around Southampton, Winchester, the Meon Valley, and Bishop's Waltham. Mapledean offers homes at Vears Lane, Colden Common for about 370,000 as well as one- and two-bedroom apartments in Bishops Waltham that range in price from 125,000 to more than 167,500. The company actively seeks development sites from single plots to larger schemes. Mapledean also assists customers with plot development. Mapledean Developments was established in 1991 by directors Jeff Adams and Nigel Freemantle.

McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc. company annually builds some 3,000 single-family residential homes in Texas in the Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio areas. The company markets its homes under the Coventry Homes, Pioneer Homes, Carmel Homes, and Plantation Homes brands, with prices ranging from the low $100,000s to more than $1 million. It operates from four offices in its service areas. Chairman and CEO Frank McGuyer and president and COO Mike Love, founders of MHI and MHI Partnership, Ltd., have worked closely since the start-up of the businesses in 1988.

McInerney Holdings has its grips on European real estate. Its flagship subsidiary McInerney Homes develops and builds homes in Ireland, where it is one of the largest home builders, and in the North and Midlands regions of England. The company targets first-time buyers with affordable offerings ranging from apartments to four-bedroom detached houses. In Spain, subsidiary Alanda Group develops and builds luxury residential and resort properties. The company is also engaged in commercial and public facilities through subsidiary Hillbert Developments.

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