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Land, Capital, And Control — A New Playbook In Homebuilding
Five Point Holdings’ acquisition of a controlling stake in Hearthstone points to the direction of homebuilding strategy: toward lighter land positions, more agile capital flows, and a far more disciplined focus on vertical construction, consumer targeting, and time-to-market velocity.
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Gravity Yanks LBM Back To Earth, Labor Retakes Spot As No. 1 Risk
As lumber and other commodities begin to obey market laws of gravity, the underlying issue -- people -- clarifies as the root issue to focus on for the present and future.
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TBD Dream Teamer Margaret Whelan Honored As Deal-Maker
Whelan specializes in bridging building and real estate's time-tested M&A motivators with data and tech's exponential impact on consumers, capital, and other stakeholders.
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Fed Watch: As Economy Revs Up, All Eyes Are On Interest Rates
At stake in what the Fed signals is a lynchpin of new-home sales momentum that kicked into overdrive practically with the onset of COVID-19 in late winter 2020.
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Can A Bubble Boil With All The Toil But Not The Trouble?
Soft-landing scenarios ... we've heard them before. Here's ways leaders can control where their firms wind up coming out of price-shock bottlenecks in the months ahead.
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Jobs And Homes: Amid Mixed Signals, Learning Beats Knowing
How to read the May jobs report in five easy pieces.