
	Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.&nbsp; is a&nbsp;United States&nbsp;real estate&nbsp;company involved in every aspect of marketing homes, including design, construction and sales. The company works with individual&nbsp;detached housing&nbsp;as well as higher-occupancy dwellings, including&nbsp;townhouses,condominiums&nbsp;and&nbsp;retirement homes. In most cases, the company acquires and develops the land on which these developments are built, but in some geographic regions, Hovnanian offers to build their proprietary house designs on private land. The company consists of two operating groups,homebuilding&nbsp;and&nbsp;financial services, and recently entered the&nbsp;Fortune 500.
