Home builders at SC coast say business improving

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Home builders along South Carolina’s once-booming coast say business is picking up, raising hopes that the worst of the recession’s construction collapse is over.

The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports (http://bit.ly/z5NtaC ) the Horry Georgetown Home Builders Association is adding members in one sign that construction interest is increasing again.

Association president Berkley White says his company is working on five custom homes, about the same as it 2002 or 2003.

Several builders say they’re not sure what created the recent uptick in activity, but Harry Dill of Sterling Homes says it’s real.

Dill says his company is negotiating more projects and he soon expects to have more projects going at the same time than the company has had in the last three or four years.

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Information from: The Sun News, http://www.thesunnews.com/