TBDLand risk
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
Undersupplied And Over-Built: How Could Both Be True At Once?
The paradoxical riddle – undersupply and overbuilding – has moving-target market-rate for-sale new-construction demand disruptors many market appraisers neglect as well.
Land
Insurance Tactics Builders Adopt As Volatility Casts Its Shadow
Big public builders have pivoted land strategies to allow them to weather a bumpier patch ahead and troll for opportunity. Smaller players have literally fewer options to de-risk.
Land
Next-Normal Mobility Rewards Relocation, Repurpose, Reuse
No. 10 among trends that will transform homebuilding by 2030: Adaptation -- in an era defined by a pandemic virus that shows no sign it will stop making all the rules -- will reignite migration and redefine 'location, location, location.'
Leadership
Homebuilding's Backlog Logjam Weighs On 2022 Forecasts
It's crystal ball time in housing, and a number of factors bedeviling homebuilders' production and value cycles remain stubbornly resistant to modeling a plan. Welcome to a new normal of de-risking 2022 operations for uncertainty ahead.





Land risk
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 05.15.23
Undersupplied And Over-Built: How Could Both Be True At Once?
The paradoxical riddle – undersupply and overbuilding – has moving-target market-rate for-sale new-construction demand disruptors many market appraisers neglect as well.
Land 01.18.22
Insurance Tactics Builders Adopt As Volatility Casts Its Shadow
Big public builders have pivoted land strategies to allow them to weather a bumpier patch ahead and troll for opportunity. Smaller players have literally fewer options to de-risk.
Land 12.24.21
Next-Normal Mobility Rewards Relocation, Repurpose, Reuse
No. 10 among trends that will transform homebuilding by 2030: Adaptation -- in an era defined by a pandemic virus that shows no sign it will stop making all the rules -- will reignite migration and redefine 'location, location, location.'
Leadership 12.02.21
Homebuilding's Backlog Logjam Weighs On 2022 Forecasts
It's crystal ball time in housing, and a number of factors bedeviling homebuilders' production and value cycles remain stubbornly resistant to modeling a plan. Welcome to a new normal of de-risking 2022 operations for uncertainty ahead.