Capital Gravity Yanks LBM Back To Earth, Labor Retakes Spot As No. 1 Risk As lumber and other commodities begin to obey market laws of gravity, the underlying issue -- people -- clarifies as the root issue to focus on for the present and future.
Land Here Are The New Table Stakes For 2020s Retirement Meccas Forbes' top 25 "Best Places to Retire in 2021" map a shifting geography of "next adventure" living for 55-plus present and future.
Building Tech & Products Builders Fret As The I-Word Bandies Between Wall Street And Capitol Hill As market-rate builders sweat out Fed policy agenda on managing inflation and its impact on borrowing costs, site-level risk -- from potential construction defect backsliding -- also grows.
Building Tech & Products Hot Market Optics: The Triple-Threat Of Sizzling-Sales The moment's alignment of stars – economic, social, and environmental – give the positive tidings of order-volume, deep demand, especially for lower-price-tiered new homes, and profitability, a darker side.
Policy Locked-Out Of FOMO Rush, Would-Be Buyers Delay Dreams As FHA and VAA homebuyer share shrinks, a torrid market decouples from a materially-important domino-effect buyer pool. What's left is a discretionary universe of prospects with cash.
Capital TBD Dream Teamer Margaret Whelan Honored As Deal-Maker Whelan specializes in bridging building and real estate's time-tested M&A motivators with data and tech's exponential impact on consumers, capital, and other stakeholders.
Building Tech & Products A Sign Of Trying Times: Jobsite Robberies Rise For Scarce LBM Surging commodity prices on the black market of goods have begun rewarding theft and fraud.
Policy New Or Used: Housing's Public Enemy No. 1 Is The Public Itself Much as they'd rather not face it if they don't have to, builders and their business partners face a critical challenge to get out of a victim-villain vicious circle, and start winning over voters.
Policy A 20-Year Gap Of 5 Million Homes Not Built Defines '20s Challenge In shock-therapy approach, the National Association of Realtors calls on lawmakers to call housing what it is ... infrastructure, and fund it accordingly.
Land Second Homes Surge In The Wake Of The Pandemic Here are the U.S. top 30 counties for vacation homes, as Americans blend their urge for recreation with a newfound capacity to work from anywhere.
Marketing & Sales Kids Go Missing In Action As American Households Change The demos don't lie. With fertility rates falling and Baby Boom generation adults rotating into older ages, housing's transformation is a non-negotiable.
Land Not All SFR Markets Are Created Equal: Many Thrive, Some Don't On average, single-family-rental is one of housing's biggest winners of 2020 into 2021. How many markets will behave according to the law of averages?
Policy A Tale Of Two Markets: Housing's Split Personality Challenges All The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies annual analysis, "The State of The Nation's Housing 2021," releases today, diving deep in the data that tells housing's sharp divides.
Marketing & Sales What A Bottom In Inventory Means For New-Home Sellers A tipping point in inventory tightness is not just a moment for financial reforecasts, but a time to double-down focus on customers -- who now will enjoy more buying options.
Capital Fed Watch: As Economy Revs Up, All Eyes Are On Interest Rates At stake in what the Fed signals is a lynchpin of new-home sales momentum that kicked into overdrive practically with the onset of COVID-19 in late winter 2020.
Land To Detect Job Magnets, Follow Job Opportunity Scorecards Which top 10 states rankings for job seekers will win out in predicting where young people match up with career opportunity?
Marketing & Sales With Pandemic-Etched Clarity, 55-Plus Americans Crave Purpose A more sharply-defined priority around purpose now goes along with health, family, and finance as a must for well-being. And that post-pandemic definition makes a difference to builders.
Building Tech & Products Mill Work: As Supply Kicks Up; Lumber Futures Go Down Sawmills pick up their pace of output, rewarding those who can sit out immediate-term scrums for lumber supply, and wait to see where pricing settles in the medium-term.
Land Drought Shifts Wildfire's Fault Lines Into No Man's Land Buys Arguments pro and con on the risks of development, where and where not to develop, who's got which rights to do what, etc., are the matters of power, money, and politics. Meanwhile, there's a housing affordability crisis.
Capital Can A Bubble Boil With All The Toil But Not The Trouble? Soft-landing scenarios ... we've heard them before. Here's ways leaders can control where their firms wind up coming out of price-shock bottlenecks in the months ahead.
Building Tech & Products TBD Partners With The Building Talent Foundation On Capability And Action The partnership will work to create a field guide for builders, partners, community colleges, and local officials to turn the tide on building's ability to attract, retain, and grow people into tomorrow construction talent force.
Marketing & Sales Mood Craters: Torrid Turning To Cool? Is That A Good Thing? As price trends price-out more buyers, the role of customer care and learning around the buyer's journey meaningfully changes. It's a risk or an opportunity.
Building Tech & Products Builder Job Quits And The Retention Rate Challenge Ahead One in three entrants into the field of construction bolts to another occupation within 24 months. A culture pivot is essential.
Building Tech & Products In Katerra's Wake, Builders Blaze Paths To Progress Katerra's gutsy play to revolutionize home construction hinged on a Silicon Valley linchpin that connects data to real-world productization. Here's how that key tech building block failed.
Building Tech & Products When Strategy Backfires: Producers' Role In Supply Shock The time to de-risk forecasts for inflation impacts is now, given that the commodities crunch can pivot into consumer price stresses in the months ahead.
