Marketing & Sales
How Homebuilding Sales Became A Strategic Center Of Gravity
Dave Rice and New Home Star help turn homebuilder sales associates into data-powered business strategists and a linchpin to critical customer feedback. Here’s why that matters now more than ever.
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Marketing & Sales
The Clearest Lens Of New Home Demand Ahead: The Kitchen Table
The 'this time's different' truism that's trenchantly true this time is inflation, which is running higher and hotter even than mortgage rates for the first time in at least six decades.
Marketing & Sales
Homebuilders Work To Solve Buyers' New Math Challenges
What they're counting on is that desire to own eclipses consumers' fear of overpaying — buyer's remorse — as market corrects.
Marketing & Sales
Process Of Elimination: How The Next Fed Rate Hike May Hit Buyers
Fed hikes and higher borrowing costs siphon both consumer households and commercial investor-lenders from the market. Within the past 2 weeks, underwriting for 1x1 existing home acquisitions for SFR went dark.
Leadership
Gravity Kicks-In, Spreading Fast, With No Choice But To Buckle Up
Tougher, more challenging conditions spread from once-frothy markets into the mainstream. 'Price cuts are inevitable,' says Ivy Zelman
Marketing & Sales
Believe Millennial Home Demand Is Unwaverable At Your Own Peril
Homebuilders can no longer count on macro economics, pandemic panic, and Fed policy to pull Millennial households into their force-field. Classic competitive marketing, selling, and customer focus are going to have to do that job now. Who's up to the challenge?