Marketing & Sales
A New Venture Erases Boundary Between Model Home And VR
Builders Design teams with Focus 360 to fuse physical world design's emotive power with the everywhere-ability of virtual reality -- giving builders a more direct digital thread to the minds, hearts, and purses of homebuyers.
Leadership
A Personal Note Of Thanks To Builders For What You Do, ... And What You Still Have To Do
The Builder's Daily celebrates and extends thanks to the homebuilding business community for 2021 achievement, and years-ahead of livelihoods that make lives and communities whole. Here's 10 blessings.
Leadership
Root Causes: Future-Fit Building Firms Reset Who's A Customer
In this first-of-a-series of beyond-the-budget housing analyses, we'd challenge business leaders to now consider reframing customer-centricity as a strategic foundation to secure and sustain capability.
Leadership
Priority #1 Amid Economic, Policy, Supply Upheaval: Customers
Your homebuying consumers may pay higher prices for all durables -- including new homes -- in the months ahead. But it's the wrong time to deemphasize focus on what they value. That's where imagination plays a role.
Technology
Lennar's LenX Taps Veev In NoCal Modular Pre-Fab Project
Lennar's second foray in as many months into industrialized, precision-based, vertically-integrated home construction signifies its acceleration as a consumer-obsessed home and community developer.
Technology
Synergos — A Unit Of Japan's Asahi-Kasei — Buys AZ's Brewer Companies
A multi-scoped supersub array of contractor services under one roof, running on advanced digital-twin building technology, rises in Phoenix. Here's what it means.
Leadership
The Common Sense Competitive Edge Of Social As Business Tool
Homebuilding's got a running start in realizing the business and competitive advantages of the 'S' in ESG. It's a natural extension of builder-of-choice, preferred-partner, and best-place-to-work.
Leadership
The People Squeeze: The Risk Of Talent Drain As Pressures Build
Here's a look at why a misstep in priorities -- the hidden-in-plain-sight focus on your talent -- could carry a heavy cost at precisely the wrong time.
Leadership
Don't Get Fooled By A Myth Of A Helpless Buyer; Listen To Yours
With apologies to Mark Twain, rumors of the demise of consumer households' market power in residential real estate are premature. Stay alert for a waking giant. Here's how and why.
Leadership
In His Own Words: Larry Webb's 5 Teachable Moments As Leader
As one of the homebuilding business community's revered leaders looks back and looks ahead, here's a first MasterClass in building company cultures you can apply today.
