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Architecture
Could Bigger Apartments Reverse America's Birth Decline?
A new study from the Institute for Family Studies links shrinking apartments to falling birth rates. It suggests developers could help stabilize the nation’s population by building more family-sized rental homes.
Marketing & Sales
Why Homebuilders Must Widen Their Lens On Today’s Buyers
Families with kids matter. However, they’re no longer the entire market. Singles, empty nesters, and multigenerational households are reshaping who buys new homes. Barbara Wray shows builders how to reflect today’s real buyer mix.
Marketing & Sales
Strength In Numbers: What The Healthy Jobs Report Means For Builders
Even with the spectre of higher interest rates ahead, opportunities will emerge for organizations capable of evolving customer focus among all of their customers, ... including owner-occupiers.
Marketing & Sales
In Housing's New Normal Rules, Supply And Demand Matter Less
For what comes next in market-rate housing -- given low supply and what will become pent-up demand -- count on experts to talk of slowdowns, softness, downturns, etc. in terms of letters: V, L, U, W, and K. After that, a boom resumes.
Marketing & Sales
As Bastion Of Future Demand, Demographics' Heyday Is Over
We're seeing the beginning of the end of demographics and generational cohorts as tools to measure market size and demand drivers. Here's the X factor we see as a bulwark of business strategy for the decade ahead.





Household formation
Architecture 10.13.25
Could Bigger Apartments Reverse America's Birth Decline?
A new study from the Institute for Family Studies links shrinking apartments to falling birth rates. It suggests developers could help stabilize the nation’s population by building more family-sized rental homes.
Marketing & Sales 10.07.25
Why Homebuilders Must Widen Their Lens On Today’s Buyers
Families with kids matter. However, they’re no longer the entire market. Singles, empty nesters, and multigenerational households are reshaping who buys new homes. Barbara Wray shows builders how to reflect today’s real buyer mix.
Marketing & Sales 10.07.22
Strength In Numbers: What The Healthy Jobs Report Means For Builders
Even with the spectre of higher interest rates ahead, opportunities will emerge for organizations capable of evolving customer focus among all of their customers, ... including owner-occupiers.
Marketing & Sales 04.26.22
In Housing's New Normal Rules, Supply And Demand Matter Less
For what comes next in market-rate housing -- given low supply and what will become pent-up demand -- count on experts to talk of slowdowns, softness, downturns, etc. in terms of letters: V, L, U, W, and K. After that, a boom resumes.
Marketing & Sales 12.17.21
As Bastion Of Future Demand, Demographics' Heyday Is Over
We're seeing the beginning of the end of demographics and generational cohorts as tools to measure market size and demand drivers. Here's the X factor we see as a bulwark of business strategy for the decade ahead.