TBDcustomer segments
Marketing & Sales
Discretionary Buyers — AKA Baby Boomers — Reclaim Focus
Both "younger" and "older" Baby Boom buyers in the market tend to be classic discretionary purchasers, versus adult "rental refugee" households looking to cross the Rubicon to homeownership, or ones compelled to seek larger living space due to expanding family formation.
Marketing & Sales
Volatility And The Myth Of Predictive Customer Data: A Tactical Alternative
A relatively better-than-expected and improving outlook among homebuilders – based on conditions and order trends and traffic and other tips builders get into the strength of their demand – may add up to yesterday's news.
Marketing & Sales
Buck The Trend: Find The Buyers' Whose Best Time To Buy Is Now
A "soft landing" calculus for homebuilders in 2023 – based on eventually lowering input costs, transferring some of those savings plus some gross margin points to lower asking prices, and re-securing an absorption rate – is the story many operators and principals are sticking to right now
Capital
Many Homebuilders Look At Build-To-Rent As A Safety Valve ... Is It?
Given a last-resort chance to keep the lights on, pay the banks, and eke out a livelihood – versus the alternative – most builders would do what they need to do to remain a going concern ... Of course, there are ifs.
Marketing & Sales
What Happens As One-Person Households Reach Critical Mass?
Oops! They have! Almost 38 million of the U.S.’s 131 million households are one-person households. Compare that to the raw number of married-with-children-under-age-18 households: 23 million or so. That number’s falling.
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Marketing & Sales 03.29.23
Discretionary Buyers — AKA Baby Boomers — Reclaim Focus
Both "younger" and "older" Baby Boom buyers in the market tend to be classic discretionary purchasers, versus adult "rental refugee" households looking to cross the Rubicon to homeownership, or ones compelled to seek larger living space due to expanding family formation.
Marketing & Sales 03.17.23
Volatility And The Myth Of Predictive Customer Data: A Tactical Alternative
A relatively better-than-expected and improving outlook among homebuilders – based on conditions and order trends and traffic and other tips builders get into the strength of their demand – may add up to yesterday's news.
Marketing & Sales 01.20.23
Buck The Trend: Find The Buyers' Whose Best Time To Buy Is Now
A "soft landing" calculus for homebuilders in 2023 – based on eventually lowering input costs, transferring some of those savings plus some gross margin points to lower asking prices, and re-securing an absorption rate – is the story many operators and principals are sticking to right now
Capital 01.04.23
Many Homebuilders Look At Build-To-Rent As A Safety Valve ... Is It?
Given a last-resort chance to keep the lights on, pay the banks, and eke out a livelihood – versus the alternative – most builders would do what they need to do to remain a going concern ... Of course, there are ifs.
Marketing & Sales 11.30.22
What Happens As One-Person Households Reach Critical Mass?
Oops! They have! Almost 38 million of the U.S.’s 131 million households are one-person households. Compare that to the raw number of married-with-children-under-age-18 households: 23 million or so. That number’s falling.
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