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- Sekisui House, Ltd. (1928.T) is a leading Japanese homebuilder that designs, constructs and sells detached houses, condominiums, rental housing and urban redevelopment properties; provides remodeling services, architectural and civil engineering works; and manages real estate, including medical facilities, commercial buildings and hotels. The company operates through segments encompassing custom detached houses, rental housing, architecture/civil engineering, remodeling, real estate management fees, houses for sale, condominiums, urban redevelopment and overseas business, with a focus on prefabricated and modular homes such as its flagship SHAWOOD wooden-framed brand, custom-built residences, ZEH net-zero-energy houses and high-performance sustainable housing solutions. Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Osaka, Japan, Sekisui House maintains factories across Japan and conducts operations in Japan, the United States across 16 states, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and China, targeting individual homebuyers, investors and institutional clients with an emphasis on safety, comfort, environmental performance and disaster resilience. Recent developments include the April 2024 completion of its $4.9 billion acquisition of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc., expanding U.S. homebuilding capacity to approximately 15,000 units annually and integrating it with subsidiaries Woodside Homes, Holt Homes, Chesmar Homes and Hubble Homes under reorganized SH Residential Holdings; the September 2025 announcement of a U.S. homebuilder business reorganization consolidating four group builders into one company with a name change for M.D.C. Holdings; ongoing SHAWOOD rollout with projects like Sommers Bend in California winning multiple awards in 2024 and 2025; and strategic expansions such as Hankyu Hanshin Properties' participation in the Melrose Park condominium project in Australia.