Land
Oversupply or Overreaction? DFW Market Needs To Hit Reset
Scott Finfer breaks down the DFW-area oversupply crisis: post-pandemic assumptions, slower job growth, and mispriced inventory. Across the U.S., high-volume markets face similar risks. Finfer outlines five strategic moves to cut through the noise — and seize ground as bigger players pull back.
Leadership
'21 Misses Become '22 Home Runs: Must Be The Season Of The Switch
Here's No. 4 in TBD's countdown of 10 trends that will change homebuilding forever: a game-change in measures of success.
Land
Evolving Local Rules Are Changing The Land Game
Path of growth land positions — once the vast realm of broken deals and distress — are pencilling for development. Local community engagement will determine which builders overcome entitlement risk ... and which ones don't.
Leadership
The Contrarian: How To Adapt To A Capacity-Constrained Future
TBD Dream Teamer Scott Cox looks ahead at market-rate housing's longer-run ramp way. He sees constraints increasing -- not easing -- and imagines what it will take companies to become fit to thrive in such a future.
Leadership
Homebuilding's Backlog Logjam Weighs On 2022 Forecasts
It's crystal ball time in housing, and a number of factors bedeviling homebuilders' production and value cycles remain stubbornly resistant to modeling a plan. Welcome to a new normal of de-risking 2022 operations for uncertainty ahead.
Leadership
Omicron — In An Era Of Ongoing Challenge — Means More Testing
Housing leaders — already battling a daunting array of business, operational, and logistical challenges — need to up their game on ensuring workplace, jobsite, customer, and partner safety as variants emerge.