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.

Homebuilding’s Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 5 Visibility’s Value

Leadership

Homebuilding’s Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 5 Visibility’s Value

While first-cost hurdles remain a mathematical challenge to price-in would-be buyers, total lifetime value and financial constants play a key role in persuading folks to buy now.

Together with

Westwood Insurance Agency

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 4 Price Drops

Marketing & Sales

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 4 Price Drops

Success – homebuilding, and residential development senior strategists and principals must consider as a better-than-expected 2023 winds down – may be the enemy.

Together with

New Home Star

A Thank-You To All The People Who Make New Homes A Reality

Leadership

A Thank-You To All The People Who Make New Homes A Reality

For past giants and present everyday people in homebuilding and residential development, one thing is always and forever true. There's always more to learn than the sum total of all we know from experience.

Homebuilding's Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 3 Smaller Houses

Architecture

Homebuilding's Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 3 Smaller Houses

Smaller home sizes don't – and can't – mean less value. It remains to be seen whether architects, engineers, and operators will succeed in creating iconic entry-level style homes whose form and function speak particularly to Millennial and Generation Z adult households.

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 2 Gen A.I.

Leadership

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 2 Gen A.I.

Gen A.I. could put machine learning to work in a process builders are already working through to remove time, money, materials waste, policy burdens, and other "costs" a consumer household does not value and only does, develop, and build more precisely what consumers do value.

Together with

FTS

Homebuilding’s Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 5 Visibility’s Value

Leadership

Homebuilding’s Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 5 Visibility’s Value

While first-cost hurdles remain a mathematical challenge to price-in would-be buyers, total lifetime value and financial constants play a key role in persuading folks to buy now.

Together with

Westwood Insurance Agency

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 4 Price Drops

Marketing & Sales

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 4 Price Drops

Success – homebuilding, and residential development senior strategists and principals must consider as a better-than-expected 2023 winds down – may be the enemy.

Together with

New Home Star

A Thank-You To All The People Who Make New Homes A Reality

Leadership

A Thank-You To All The People Who Make New Homes A Reality

For past giants and present everyday people in homebuilding and residential development, one thing is always and forever true. There's always more to learn than the sum total of all we know from experience.

Homebuilding's Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 3 Smaller Houses

Architecture

Homebuilding's Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 3 Smaller Houses

Smaller home sizes don't – and can't – mean less value. It remains to be seen whether architects, engineers, and operators will succeed in creating iconic entry-level style homes whose form and function speak particularly to Millennial and Generation Z adult households.

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 2 Gen A.I.

Leadership

2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 2 Gen A.I.

Gen A.I. could put machine learning to work in a process builders are already working through to remove time, money, materials waste, policy burdens, and other "costs" a consumer household does not value and only does, develop, and build more precisely what consumers do value.

Together with

FTS