John Stephens

M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. engages in providing homebuilding and financial services. It operates through the following geographical segments: West, Mountain, and East. The West segment includes operations in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. The Mountain segment refers to the operations in Colorado, Idaho, and Utah. The East segment operates in Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. It also operates through the following segments: HomeAmerican, Allegiant, StarAmerican, American Home Insurance, and American Home Title. The company was founded by Larry A. Mizel in 1972 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Standard Pacific Corp. engages in the building of homes and communities in the United States. It primarily focuses on building family oriented communities in many of the housing markets including California, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Colorado. The company operates in two principal businesses: homebuilding and financial services (consisting of its mortgage financing and title operations). Its homebuilding operations construct and sell single-family attached and detached homes. Its mortgage financing operation provides mortgage financing to its homebuyers in substantially all of the markets in which it operates, and sells substantially all of the loans it originates in the secondary mortgage market. Its title service operation provides title examinations for its homebuyers in Texas. Standard Pacific was founded by Ronald R. Foell and Arthur E. Svendsen in 1965 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Stephenson Properties, Inc. provides real estate brokerage services. The firm engages in real estate acquisition, re-hab, property management and sales business. It focuses on management of apartment buildings, office buildings, single family homes and sale of real estate. The company was founded by John M. Stephenson in 1998 and is headquartered in Overland Park, KS.

The New Home Co., Inc. engages in the designing, construction, and selling of homes. It operates through following segments: Arizona Homebuilding, California Homebuilding, and Fee Building. The Arizona Homebuilding and California Homebuilding segments is involved in the acquiring and developing of lands; and constructs and sells single-family attached and detached homes. The Fee Building segment focuses on building and selling homes, and managing construction related activities. The company was founded by Joseph D. Davis, Thomas Redwitz, Wayne J. Stelmar, and H. Lawrence Webb on August 26, 2009 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.