After building more than 360,000 homes since World War II, Jim Walter Homes has gone kaput. Jim Walter, known for building inexpensive homes on customer-owned lots, closed Tuesday. Though it built ...

For more than 50 years, Tampa-based Jim Walter Homes built hundreds of thousands of affordable houses — but only for people who already owned some land. The company actually turned away business ...

And it featured a 71-year-old founder, Jim Walter, who had built the home-building empire after leaving his father's trucking business. The deal provided for nearly everyone. Attorneys for the ...

Jim Walter Homes, Inc. was a modular ... Gordon replaced the original Masonite siding with HardiPlank siding, and the old shingle roof with standing-seam metal, giving the house a fresh new ...

Jim Walter Homes, a fixture in the site-built and modular-home business since 1946, announced today that it is closing all of its offices, including one in Goose Creek. Its owner, Tampa-based ...

On Aug. 13, 2022, Jim Walter lost his wife and his mother-in-law. His grandson, Gage Walter, struck both of them with a hammer multiple times, killing them in his home while Jim was out on a ...