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.

Leveling The Field: How Outlier Local Builders Can Win On Land

Capital

Leveling The Field: How Outlier Local Builders Can Win On Land

Land deals are out there to be had. Getting them to pencil — especially with upward or downward pricing flexility in the mix — puts capital and its cost in focus.

Together with

SNAP.BUILD

The Role Of Feeback Loops In Homebuilding Today Is Hard To Overstate

Leadership

The Role Of Feeback Loops In Homebuilding Today Is Hard To Overstate

"All of this is a coordinated program of taking steps at a time to improve the ingestion of data, to use the data more constructively and then to bring it to its next level where we're actually driving productivity gains within our business." -- Stuart Miller, executive chairman, Lennar

The 'Lennar Machine,' A Cycle-Proof Growth Plan Proves Itself

Leadership

The 'Lennar Machine,' A Cycle-Proof Growth Plan Proves Itself

The Machine's central implication for Lennar as one of the leading $30-billion-plus competitors in its markets is as a pace and production-first operator that models growth and profitability around those tenets as imperatives.

Trailblazers '23: Vantem's CapEx Light Plan To Scale Modular Fast

Technology

Trailblazers '23: Vantem's CapEx Light Plan To Scale Modular Fast

While other residential construction innovators race against the clock -- and investors' and lenders' financing -- to scale, this plan to build a 10-facility network of local plant affiliates may stand as an offsite model to watch.

A.I. Numbers Days Of New Home Sales Agents As 'Gatekeepers'

Marketing & Sales

A.I. Numbers Days Of New Home Sales Agents As 'Gatekeepers'

A deep-dive conversation with New Home Star founder David Rice on nearer-term impacts of A.I. on new home sales associates, and their role in business value creation. Get ready to pivot.

Together with

New Home Star

Leveling The Field: How Outlier Local Builders Can Win On Land

Capital

Leveling The Field: How Outlier Local Builders Can Win On Land

Land deals are out there to be had. Getting them to pencil — especially with upward or downward pricing flexility in the mix — puts capital and its cost in focus.

Together with

SNAP.BUILD

The Role Of Feeback Loops In Homebuilding Today Is Hard To Overstate

Leadership

The Role Of Feeback Loops In Homebuilding Today Is Hard To Overstate

"All of this is a coordinated program of taking steps at a time to improve the ingestion of data, to use the data more constructively and then to bring it to its next level where we're actually driving productivity gains within our business." -- Stuart Miller, executive chairman, Lennar

The 'Lennar Machine,' A Cycle-Proof Growth Plan Proves Itself

Leadership

The 'Lennar Machine,' A Cycle-Proof Growth Plan Proves Itself

The Machine's central implication for Lennar as one of the leading $30-billion-plus competitors in its markets is as a pace and production-first operator that models growth and profitability around those tenets as imperatives.

Trailblazers '23: Vantem's CapEx Light Plan To Scale Modular Fast

Technology

Trailblazers '23: Vantem's CapEx Light Plan To Scale Modular Fast

While other residential construction innovators race against the clock -- and investors' and lenders' financing -- to scale, this plan to build a 10-facility network of local plant affiliates may stand as an offsite model to watch.

A.I. Numbers Days Of New Home Sales Agents As 'Gatekeepers'

Marketing & Sales

A.I. Numbers Days Of New Home Sales Agents As 'Gatekeepers'

A deep-dive conversation with New Home Star founder David Rice on nearer-term impacts of A.I. on new home sales associates, and their role in business value creation. Get ready to pivot.

Together with

New Home Star