Marketing & Sales
U.S. Apartment Rents Post First Third-Quarter Drop Since 2009
Apartment rents slipped for the first time since the Great Recession, signaling a cooling market driven by oversupply. Developers are pulling back—but economists warn the pause won’t last. Richard Lawson explores how and why.
Leadership
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.
Marketing & Sales
Volatility And The Myth Of Predictive Customer Data: A Tactical Alternative
A relatively better-than-expected and improving outlook among homebuilders – based on conditions and order trends and traffic and other tips builders get into the strength of their demand – may add up to yesterday's news.
Leadership
A Start To Healing Rampant Crises Of Confidence: Focus On Making Places Safer
Running through the present, even scoping to a close-up on homebuilders' Spring Selling season – with countless sources in the past and countless future destinations – streams a stack of crises of confidence, riding piggy-back on one another.
Marketing & Sales
Spring Selling 2023: Is This Time Different? Please Do Tell
For just the second time, The Builder's Daily asks you to tell us your view of how Spring Selling Season and the balance of 2023 will work out. Please take five minutes to respond to our survey here.
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Marketing & Sales
Value: A Love Story
"Why is there only one day a year that is International Women's Day? Does that mean that the other 364 days of the year are Men's Days?"