TBDconcessions
Marketing & Sales
Rate Buydowns: Temporary Fix, Long-Term Risk For Homebuilders
Financial incentives like mortgage rate buydowns may boost sales today, but builders using them broadly risk margin erosion, mispricing, and long-term strategic misalignment—especially those without Lennar-scale flexibility.
Marketing & Sales
A Gap Grows: Buyers Vs. Those Who Now Wait On The Sidelines
While homebuilders excel at reducing barriers through incentives, they must also focus on creating a stronger emotional connection with potential buyers.
Marketing & Sales
This A.I. Taps Every Tool, Tactic Needed To Win In Spring Selling
In our first episode of TBD Player, New Home Star Marketing Director Chris Laskowski leads a deep-dive exploration into an epic new A.I. capability that puts a firm's entire institutional knowledge-base into users' hands in split seconds.
Together with
New Home Star
Marketing & Sales
2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 4 Price Drops
Success – homebuilding, and residential development senior strategists and principals must consider as a better-than-expected 2023 winds down – may be the enemy.
Together with
New Home Star
Capital
Margin Pressure Mounts In A Higher-For-Longer Marathon
The squeeze on private homebuilders' margins comes from three key sources: High mortgage rates eroding demand, leading to greater price concessions; tighter credit access, leading to higher borrowing costs; and land price inflation due to lot supply constraints.





concessions
Marketing & Sales 06.20.25
Rate Buydowns: Temporary Fix, Long-Term Risk For Homebuilders
Financial incentives like mortgage rate buydowns may boost sales today, but builders using them broadly risk margin erosion, mispricing, and long-term strategic misalignment—especially those without Lennar-scale flexibility.
Marketing & Sales 06.07.24
A Gap Grows: Buyers Vs. Those Who Now Wait On The Sidelines
While homebuilders excel at reducing barriers through incentives, they must also focus on creating a stronger emotional connection with potential buyers.
Marketing & Sales 01.30.24
This A.I. Taps Every Tool, Tactic Needed To Win In Spring Selling
In our first episode of TBD Player, New Home Star Marketing Director Chris Laskowski leads a deep-dive exploration into an epic new A.I. capability that puts a firm's entire institutional knowledge-base into users' hands in split seconds.
Marketing & Sales 11.27.23
2024's Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 4 Price Drops
Success – homebuilding, and residential development senior strategists and principals must consider as a better-than-expected 2023 winds down – may be the enemy.
Capital 11.14.23
Margin Pressure Mounts In A Higher-For-Longer Marathon
The squeeze on private homebuilders' margins comes from three key sources: High mortgage rates eroding demand, leading to greater price concessions; tighter credit access, leading to higher borrowing costs; and land price inflation due to lot supply constraints.