Marketing & Sales
Homebuilders Can Keep Selling 55+ Homes In A Tough Market
Deborah Blake's zero-base, customer-first framework helps builders win 55+ buyers in a down season.
Marketing & Sales
Hidden In Plain Sight, The Baby Boom May Be The Next Big Thing
Homebuilders, developers, and investors fixate on younger adult buyers and their path into new homeownership. Meanwhile, a still untapped -- and unconventional -- market lies ahead in a longer 55-plus runway.
Marketing & Sales
What To Watch: How To Model For An Either-Way Year Ahead
How might we pick up telltales that better help us predict what's ahead? Looking back at "trends that have been stopped in their tracks" may offer clues.
Marketing & Sales
A New Venture Erases Boundary Between Model Home And VR
Builders Design teams with Focus 360 to fuse physical world design's emotive power with the everywhere-ability of virtual reality -- giving builders a more direct digital thread to the minds, hearts, and purses of homebuyers.
Leadership
Root Causes: Future-Fit Building Firms Reset Who's A Customer
In this first-of-a-series of beyond-the-budget housing analyses, we'd challenge business leaders to now consider reframing customer-centricity as a strategic foundation to secure and sustain capability.
Leadership
Priority #1 Amid Economic, Policy, Supply Upheaval: Customers
Your homebuying consumers may pay higher prices for all durables -- including new homes -- in the months ahead. But it's the wrong time to deemphasize focus on what they value. That's where imagination plays a role.