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
Sneak Peak: As Sales Top Out, Signs Of Softening Multiply
Keeping an eye on new-home "search" behavior offers a smart way to take stock on signals versus noise in the next several months.
Marketing & Sales
As More Home-Seekers Click-To-Pay, Builders Bypass Middlemen
The pandemic-accelerated arrival of end-to-end digital search, selection, personalization, and purchase among homebuilding's power players has two profound sea-change implications. Here they are.
Marketing & Sales
America's Covid Baby Bust Means The Future Has Arrived Early For Homebuilders
Demographics, the structural basis for long-range optimism in residential investment, real estate development, construction, distribution, and related manufacturing and partner businesses, has suddenly hoisted a Jolly Roger.
Marketing & Sales
Kids Go Missing In Action As American Households Change
The demos don't lie. With fertility rates falling and Baby Boom generation adults rotating into older ages, housing's transformation is a non-negotiable.
Marketing & Sales
What A Bottom In Inventory Means For New-Home Sellers
A tipping point in inventory tightness is not just a moment for financial reforecasts, but a time to double-down focus on customers -- who now will enjoy more buying options.