Berkshire buys more Lennar shares, but pace of purchases slows

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire Hathaway added to its bet on Lennar this week, raising its stake in the homebuilder to 11.2%, although the pace of its buying appears to be slowing. In an SEC filing late Wednesday , Berkshire disclosed it bought a total of $53.6 million of Lennar's Class A shares and another $329,000 of the super-voting B shares on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. That puts the position at a total of 26.6 million shares valued at $2.1 billion based on Friday's closing prices . At the end of the second quarter , Berkshire owned a 5.4% stake of 13.