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.

Buffett Bets On Three Of A Kind In $800 Million Public Builder Play

Capital

Buffett Bets On Three Of A Kind In $800 Million Public Builder Play

Here's a look at Berkshire Hathaway's first major investment foray into the public homebuilders in 25 years, and why D.R. Horton, NVR, and Lennar stood out amidst a raft of ongoing near- and mid-term challenges in the housing market.

Homelessness And Homebuilders: Parallel Realities Or Merging Worlds?

Leadership

Homelessness And Homebuilders: Parallel Realities Or Merging Worlds?

As the housing crisis and its effects spread faster and come to "a neighborhood near you," market-rate enterprise leaders may either end up as part of the solutions or be viewed as part of the problem.

Trailblazers '23: Pearl Homes Aims At Housing's Three-Headed Hydra

Architecture

Trailblazers '23: Pearl Homes Aims At Housing's Three-Headed Hydra

Marshall Gobuty's Pearl Homes game plan is to ramp up an enterprise scale capability platform – using the net zero, LEED, solar-battery-powered blend as a scaleable ingredient brand -- for housing as a solution.

Homebuilding Lightning In A Bottle For A Soaring 2nd Time Start-Up

Leadership

Homebuilding Lightning In A Bottle For A Soaring 2nd Time Start-Up

Greenwood Homes – which cut its first new communities' ribbons in very late 2020 has catapulted to just shy of $200 million in expected 2023 revenues across its three mid-Atlantic operating nodes.

Expected Squeeze On Banks Tightens Credit Access For All

Capital

Expected Squeeze On Banks Tightens Credit Access For All

A "tighter-for-longer" credit and lending regime may – with an uneven-handed impact – unwind some of those benign forces pulling would-be homebuyers into the new-home demand pool, and turn them negative.

Buffett Bets On Three Of A Kind In $800 Million Public Builder Play

Capital

Buffett Bets On Three Of A Kind In $800 Million Public Builder Play

Here's a look at Berkshire Hathaway's first major investment foray into the public homebuilders in 25 years, and why D.R. Horton, NVR, and Lennar stood out amidst a raft of ongoing near- and mid-term challenges in the housing market.

Homelessness And Homebuilders: Parallel Realities Or Merging Worlds?

Leadership

Homelessness And Homebuilders: Parallel Realities Or Merging Worlds?

As the housing crisis and its effects spread faster and come to "a neighborhood near you," market-rate enterprise leaders may either end up as part of the solutions or be viewed as part of the problem.

Trailblazers '23: Pearl Homes Aims At Housing's Three-Headed Hydra

Architecture

Trailblazers '23: Pearl Homes Aims At Housing's Three-Headed Hydra

Marshall Gobuty's Pearl Homes game plan is to ramp up an enterprise scale capability platform – using the net zero, LEED, solar-battery-powered blend as a scaleable ingredient brand -- for housing as a solution.

Homebuilding Lightning In A Bottle For A Soaring 2nd Time Start-Up

Leadership

Homebuilding Lightning In A Bottle For A Soaring 2nd Time Start-Up

Greenwood Homes – which cut its first new communities' ribbons in very late 2020 has catapulted to just shy of $200 million in expected 2023 revenues across its three mid-Atlantic operating nodes.

Expected Squeeze On Banks Tightens Credit Access For All

Capital

Expected Squeeze On Banks Tightens Credit Access For All

A "tighter-for-longer" credit and lending regime may – with an uneven-handed impact – unwind some of those benign forces pulling would-be homebuyers into the new-home demand pool, and turn them negative.