KB Home, located in Phoenix, is a regional office for its parent company, KB Home, which maintains headquarters in Los Angeles. KB Home is one of the leading publicly traded homebuilders in the United States. The company was established in 1957 and builds more than 30,000 homes annually. KB is active in nearly 40 of the top 75 MSAs in the United States, including cities in Arizona, California, Colorado, lorida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and France. KB HOME is the first publicly held homebuilder in the United States to implement certification by the Research Center, a subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders, for building quality homes. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol KBH.