Capital Bumpier Times As Market Forces Stress-Test Solid Fundamentals P4 -- a fourth revision to 2021 budget and operational forecasts -- needs to reflect shifts from tailwinds to headwinds before 'actuals' start comping to booming 2020 measures.
Building Tech & Products How The Tiniest Details In A New Home Could Change Real Estate Digibilt, a software as a solution platform, could be the missing link to precisely measuring a home's carbon impact. The economic implications range far and wide.
Capability and Culture A 'People Business' Has This No. 1 Challenge: People The Homebuilding Workforce Engagement Survey -- a collaboration of the Leading Builders of America and the Building Talent Foundation -- needs your help. Here's how.
Capital Public Builders' Dilemma: How Big A Miss To Guide To For 2021 As 2021 Q4 approaches, public homebuilder face a harrowing prospect: How to level-set to reality on delivery misses without jeopardizing 2022 forecasts or penalizing operators in the field.
Land In One Fell Swoop, Dream Finders Joins Building's Big Leagues Patrick Zalupski's latest coup -- landing a $475 million deal for Texas powerhouse MHI Partners -- underscores a meteoric rise to multiregional relevance as a homebuilding power player.
Land Stanley Martin Adds Florida's Avex To Daiwa House Footprint Here's why a Q4 surge in private-to-private, private-to-public, and private-to-financial buyer deals will take homebuilder consolidation to a next level.
Capital Stop Saying 'Labor Shortage;' Focus On Talent Magnetism Solving American homebuilding's biggest challenges -- attainability, sustainability, and next generation talent -- may seem impossible. Left with no choice, we'll rally.
Policy In Digital ID Era, Property And Privacy Enter Brave New World The inevitability of an industry standard property identification record -- and its vast array of benefits and uses -- doesn't diminish the need for eyes-open recognition of the big risks.
Building Tech & Products How Builders Look For An Edge: Surviving Supply Chain Limbo "We need back-ups of back-ups, multiple suppliers to turn to" -- A public homebuilding company president's view of how to contend with today's tricky supply chains.
Land PE Firms Bring Buy-Now-Pay-Later Gambit To Land Wargames "Some of these deals today will be the big distressed deal plays of tomorrow." -- A strategic land pro describes private equity blitz into build-for-rent as "extraordinarily risky."
Land Suburban Renewal: America's Pandemic Embrace Of Backyards Fresh Pew Research affirms a mindset shift toward bigger, less dense, houses, versus walkable access to neighborhood retail, food, health, and entertainment connections. Two big questions here.
Land CastleRock Clinches Daiwa House's 'Smile States' Empire Now, three strategically-joined operators stretch coast-to-coast, and are poised to grow the business into one of homebuilding's 15 leading enterprises. An exclusive interview with CastleRock EVP Lance Wright.
Building Tech & Products Model Home E-Retail As-A-Service Taps Pandemic-Era Mojo As Pulte ventures with Mine on turnkey interior design and furnishings e-commerce solutions, a business model pivot on model home economics begins to come clear.
Marketing & Sales Pandemic-Era New Normal Segments: 50+ Is The New 55+ As Dream Finders Homes unveils its active adult game plan, it starts by including a spryer customer set. Here's why that's a game-changer.
Marketing & Sales The Price, Pace, Profit Plot Thickens In A Murky Outlook Here's why builders are hoping existing home inventory trends continue upward -- for at least the rest of 2021.
Architecture What Builders And Their Partners Need To Know About Hybrid Life One of business's pandemic-era buzzwords is both all-important and transitory. There's no way around addressing it, and yet, one day, its meaning will fade.
Marketing & Sales Look Who's Selling: The 2020s Baby Boom Pivot Has Arrived Just as millennials' latent family-formation awakening has galvanized single-family demand, a Baby Boom age 55-to-75 analog -- extended family formation -- will transform resales and ignite the 2020s housing economy.
Land Ground Rule Trouble: Built-To-Rent Land Rush Stresses Publics Clashing land valuation models -- IRR vs. gross and net yield REIT valuations -- have upped the antes, raised the risks, and elevated the stakes in the residential land acquisition landscape.
Marketing & Sales New Open-Source X Lab Market Looks To Cut 6% Commissions An open-sourced power-of-information platform would give consumer sellers and buyers more sway, more savings, and less friction in one of life's anxiety-filled experiences: Property transactions.
Land 2020 Census: Fast-Changing Households Hold Keys To 2030 An underlying, strategically critical question for market-rate housing leaders: How geared are their organizations, designs, land plans, and price offerings for 'explosive' diversity in household composition?
Capital Throughput Delays Crush Private Homebuilders' Cashflow As constructus interruptus disrupts building cycles, privately capitalized operators hold little leverage for continued access to lines of credit, construction-to-perm loans, and project financing.
Land Nashville Plats: Module's Platform To Power Urban Core Cottage Cluster Here's what life in the upzone might look like if more downtown urban core areas drop restrictive land-use obstacles, and explore a more expansive and inclusive 'equity box.'
Land Spree For All: Toll Brothers Lands Vegas-Area's StoryBook Homes Here's The Builder's Daily perspective on the latest strategic deal in a mergers and acquisition feeding frenzy whose pace won't likely abate before year-end.
Land As Lot Prices Soar, Risk Rises For Homebuilders' Margins, Sales It's musical chairs time in residential land acquisition and development, with more contestants in the game, surging unmet need for shelter, and a lot to gain for the winners.
Capital Daiwa House Dials In Texas: $400M For 80% Of Castlerock Here's the 411 on 2021's largest homebuilding mergers and acquisition deal to date, giving Japan-based Daiwa House the fast-growing strategic puzzle piece its $3.6 billion goal calls for now.
