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.

Private Homebuilders Turn To Coopetition As A Path Forward

Land

Private Homebuilders Turn To Coopetition As A Path Forward

As Raleigh, N.C.-based Glenwood Homes' big land asset sale to LGI Homes illustrates, win-win-win deals can add optionality and runway to private builders and provide needed finished and unfinished lot inventory to earnings-hungry publics.

Together with

Builder Advisor Group

How Builders Can Dial Up Value While Others Compete On Price

Leadership

How Builders Can Dial Up Value While Others Compete On Price

The risk of not standing out, standing apart, and standing above increases on an axis equal to or greater than the trajectory of monthly payments as price and rates push higher.

Together with

Westwood Insurance Agency

The 12 Critical Reasons Builders Need To Regain Lost Cycle Time

Capital

The 12 Critical Reasons Builders Need To Regain Lost Cycle Time

Operational focus on high-velocity build cycles is essential as a homebuilder’s solution to navigate volatile, uncertain, and a higher-for-longer financing costs regime, not to mention ongoing challenges to keep expenses from getting out of control.

Together with

SNAP.BUILD

Some Build Homes In Factories; Cuby Builds Factories To Produce Homes

Technology

Some Build Homes In Factories; Cuby Builds Factories To Produce Homes

A cap-ex-light portable mini-factory approach to getting deep local scale and high-velocity end-to-end home construction capability aims to be production builders' local partner. TBD dives deep with the co-founders of Cuby.

There Are Three Kinds Of Buyer Demand: One Matters The Most

Leadership

There Are Three Kinds Of Buyer Demand: One Matters The Most

Although most builders' well-engineered "shock absorber" – hefty gross margins – has undergone moderate stress in the past six or seven months to keep selling pace up, that shock absorber's got its work still cut out for it in the stretch ahead.

Private Homebuilders Turn To Coopetition As A Path Forward

Land

Private Homebuilders Turn To Coopetition As A Path Forward

As Raleigh, N.C.-based Glenwood Homes' big land asset sale to LGI Homes illustrates, win-win-win deals can add optionality and runway to private builders and provide needed finished and unfinished lot inventory to earnings-hungry publics.

Together with

Builder Advisor Group

How Builders Can Dial Up Value While Others Compete On Price

Leadership

How Builders Can Dial Up Value While Others Compete On Price

The risk of not standing out, standing apart, and standing above increases on an axis equal to or greater than the trajectory of monthly payments as price and rates push higher.

Together with

Westwood Insurance Agency

The 12 Critical Reasons Builders Need To Regain Lost Cycle Time

Capital

The 12 Critical Reasons Builders Need To Regain Lost Cycle Time

Operational focus on high-velocity build cycles is essential as a homebuilder’s solution to navigate volatile, uncertain, and a higher-for-longer financing costs regime, not to mention ongoing challenges to keep expenses from getting out of control.

Together with

SNAP.BUILD

Some Build Homes In Factories; Cuby Builds Factories To Produce Homes

Technology

Some Build Homes In Factories; Cuby Builds Factories To Produce Homes

A cap-ex-light portable mini-factory approach to getting deep local scale and high-velocity end-to-end home construction capability aims to be production builders' local partner. TBD dives deep with the co-founders of Cuby.

There Are Three Kinds Of Buyer Demand: One Matters The Most

Leadership

There Are Three Kinds Of Buyer Demand: One Matters The Most

Although most builders' well-engineered "shock absorber" – hefty gross margins – has undergone moderate stress in the past six or seven months to keep selling pace up, that shock absorber's got its work still cut out for it in the stretch ahead.