Marketing & Sales
When Homebuyers Pull Back, Builder Brands Must Step Up
In markets under stress, consistency, empathy, and value-driven messaging provide builders with a critical edge among today’s cautious buyers. Advisor Barbara Wray gets real about the path forward for homebuilders today.
Marketing & Sales
Self-Serve Meets White Glove Service: Empire's Homebase
Empire Atlanta's pre-Covid marketing and sales integrated services platform, HomeBase, plays as though it was designed with the pandemic-era in mind. Instead, it reflected putting homebuyers first, and mapping to their journey.
Marketing & Sales
Data Says It: A New Homebuyer Behavior Pivot Has Happened
Households searching online for new homes declined, year-on-year, for the first time in 52 weeks. Panic time? No. Time to shift from order-taking to high-level customer focus and care? You decide.
Marketing & Sales
Transparency's Path To Trust Puts Data To Work On Buyer Experience
Zeroing in on part of the pain in residential real estate and construction's building lifecycle -- lack of transparency -- a new combination seeks to apply proptech data solutions.
Leadership
Price And Profit: Homebuilders Walk A Fine Line At A Tricky Time
You may be able to raise prices -- especially as costs surge -- but should you? Algorithms may have one answer. And there may be other choices.
Marketing & Sales
Take Demand From These Buyers For Granted At Your Peril
Focus these days zeroes in on the crush of capital flooding into residential real estate. However, it would be a mistake to lose track of an equally unpredictable business force-factor: Who will buy?