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Land
Here's Homebuilding Data Guru Jody Kahn On The '24 Land Sweeps
Homebuilders are stoked about better-than-expected demand that arrived ahead of schedule in 2024. For many of them, it's supply -- particularly lot supply -- that represents the red flag risk ahead.
Land
The New Math: The 5 Metrics To Get Right For Success In 2024
During the period since the Global Financial Crisis, the underlying math of the homebuilding and residential development business has changed in ways I am not sure has been thought through by all participants.
Land
As Land Inflation Looms Over 2024, New Solutions Emerge
Mix shift or not, land and residential building lots are not only the homebuilding and development's precious resource "they're not making any more of," but also the very one 30,000 U.S. localities happen to make a common practice of making less of.
Land
Beyond The 'What-Inning-Is-It?' Question: 2024-'25 Land-Spend
To feed the machine, public, private, large, medium, or small builders need lots out ahead of them. To keep that machine hungry, builders need those lots to pencil in an environment that's getting tougher and tougher for a larger and larger portion of would-be home buyers.
Land
A Land 'Reload' Is A Pain Point Builders Did Not Expect In 2023
Having to go out now – in a business backdrop where land sellers never got the memo that they'd better concede on lot pricing – and buy land feels, to some of the builder execs we've heard from, just wrong. That doesn't mean they won't do it.





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Land 03.05.24
Here's Homebuilding Data Guru Jody Kahn On The '24 Land Sweeps
Homebuilders are stoked about better-than-expected demand that arrived ahead of schedule in 2024. For many of them, it's supply -- particularly lot supply -- that represents the red flag risk ahead.
Land 12.15.23
The New Math: The 5 Metrics To Get Right For Success In 2024
During the period since the Global Financial Crisis, the underlying math of the homebuilding and residential development business has changed in ways I am not sure has been thought through by all participants.
Land 11.15.23
As Land Inflation Looms Over 2024, New Solutions Emerge
Mix shift or not, land and residential building lots are not only the homebuilding and development's precious resource "they're not making any more of," but also the very one 30,000 U.S. localities happen to make a common practice of making less of.
Land 10.04.23
Beyond The 'What-Inning-Is-It?' Question: 2024-'25 Land-Spend
To feed the machine, public, private, large, medium, or small builders need lots out ahead of them. To keep that machine hungry, builders need those lots to pencil in an environment that's getting tougher and tougher for a larger and larger portion of would-be home buyers.
Land 05.19.23
A Land 'Reload' Is A Pain Point Builders Did Not Expect In 2023
Having to go out now – in a business backdrop where land sellers never got the memo that they'd better concede on lot pricing – and buy land feels, to some of the builder execs we've heard from, just wrong. That doesn't mean they won't do it.