The group's principal activities are to design, construct and market single-family and multi-family homes mainly to move-up and luxury homebuyers. It also develops land for sale to other homebuilders. The group operates through local business units, which are involved in all phases of the planning and building of the group's master-planned communities and infill developments. The operations of the group are focused primarily in five markets: the san francisco bay area; southland / los angeles area; san diego / riverside; sacramento and northern Virginia.