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How High Performing Builders Are Winning The Margin War
Margins are shrinking, and market tailwinds are gone. At Focus on Excellence in Denver, builder presidents shared the hard truths—and proven tactics—behind operational discipline, cycle-time mastery, and the relentless pursuit of efficiency.
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Value-Adds For New Home Tech: Loss Reduction, Lower Premium, Peace Of Mind
New homes tend now to include as a non-negotiable standard a smart-home suite of services. Fact is, as they evolve, those smart home devices have emerged as more than “nice-to-have” convenience solutions.
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Westwood Insurance Agency
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The Builder's Daily Readers Say They're Up To '23's Challenges
Three out of four respondents in our survey two weeks ago see a housing market on the rebound, righting itself relatively quickly.
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Kohler
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How Better-Than-Expected Results Became A New Win
Outperforming expectations now qualify as chest-pumping, back-flips-worthy triumphs. Compared-with-expectations measures – particularly on the price concessions and cancellations calculus that reveals net pace – amount to an accomplishment: Less-bad is the new good.
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RIFs Alone Won't Outrun Revenue Loss. Here's An Option
The way layoffs work is that the loss in capability – i.e. revenue reduction – often eclipses any gains in margin protection. This sets a Catch-22 of racing-to-the-bottom in motion that it's hard to stop unless economic and demand tides turn and start raising "all boats."
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FTS
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1st-Mover Lennar Continues To Set Pace, Starts As Cash Drivers
Lennar's core strategy to fuse price, pace, and production at a volume level that remains consistent maps the enterprise to fill the present market's dire unmet need, and the future market's most explosive growth opportunity.