John McManus

John McManus

President and Founder

John McManus, founder and president of The Builder’s Daily, is an award-winning editorial, programming, and digital content strategist. TBD's purpose is a community capable of constant improvement.

'People's Memories Are Short' - A Natural Hazard Axiom Gets A Real-Time Stress Test

Land

'People's Memories Are Short' - A Natural Hazard Axiom Gets A Real-Time Stress Test

What happens when abstraction crashes into homebuilding and development's real-world, morning, noon, and evening reality?

PulteGroup Legal Plot Thickens As Firm Moves To Dismiss Suit

Leadership

PulteGroup Legal Plot Thickens As Firm Moves To Dismiss Suit

The new legal filing carries stirrings of a stiffer response to a concurrent and intertwined campaign of criticism and suspicion of wrongdoing heaped on PulteGroup top executives by the late company founder's grandson, William J. Pulte.

Early-Movers D.R. Horton And Pretium Signal It's Their Time To Strike

Capital

Early-Movers D.R. Horton And Pretium Signal It's Their Time To Strike

The $1.5 billion agreement between Pretium and D.R. Horton reflects conviction of each of the participants around two plausibilities, or perhaps, likelihoods. That doesn't mean they're bound to turn out as expected.

A.I. And New-Home Demand: Are They On A Collision Course?

Technology

A.I. And New-Home Demand: Are They On A Collision Course?

The economy's direction and trajectory now have an added catalyst sculpting the shape and size of the "buyer pool" ... A.I.

Flux Is Not An Option ... How Homebuilders Manage It Is

Technology

Flux Is Not An Option ... How Homebuilders Manage It Is

When business variables seem each to be channeling their inner VIX index, and when each of those operational spinning plates bears directly on outcomes for every other priority area, agility and resilience emerge as anything but fodder for the B.S. detector.

Together with

Constellation HomeBuilder Systems

'People's Memories Are Short' - A Natural Hazard Axiom Gets A Real-Time Stress Test

Land

'People's Memories Are Short' - A Natural Hazard Axiom Gets A Real-Time Stress Test

What happens when abstraction crashes into homebuilding and development's real-world, morning, noon, and evening reality?

PulteGroup Legal Plot Thickens As Firm Moves To Dismiss Suit

Leadership

PulteGroup Legal Plot Thickens As Firm Moves To Dismiss Suit

The new legal filing carries stirrings of a stiffer response to a concurrent and intertwined campaign of criticism and suspicion of wrongdoing heaped on PulteGroup top executives by the late company founder's grandson, William J. Pulte.

Early-Movers D.R. Horton And Pretium Signal It's Their Time To Strike

Capital

Early-Movers D.R. Horton And Pretium Signal It's Their Time To Strike

The $1.5 billion agreement between Pretium and D.R. Horton reflects conviction of each of the participants around two plausibilities, or perhaps, likelihoods. That doesn't mean they're bound to turn out as expected.

A.I. And New-Home Demand: Are They On A Collision Course?

Technology

A.I. And New-Home Demand: Are They On A Collision Course?

The economy's direction and trajectory now have an added catalyst sculpting the shape and size of the "buyer pool" ... A.I.

Flux Is Not An Option ... How Homebuilders Manage It Is

Technology

Flux Is Not An Option ... How Homebuilders Manage It Is

When business variables seem each to be channeling their inner VIX index, and when each of those operational spinning plates bears directly on outcomes for every other priority area, agility and resilience emerge as anything but fodder for the B.S. detector.

Together with

Constellation HomeBuilder Systems