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Meritage's Elliott Deal Signals New Stakes In Mid-2020s Land Rush

Land

Meritage's Elliott Deal Signals New Stakes In Mid-2020s Land Rush

Meritage Homes' Gulf Coast expansion highlights the elevated pressure among public builders to secure land for higher-velocity, affordable growth.

Lending More Than $700 Million In '23, Avila Real Estate Capital Reaches A&D Zenith

Capital

Lending More Than $700 Million In '23, Avila Real Estate Capital Reaches A&D Zenith

"The Avila team has always been a tremendous resource. He knows the builders, the capital partners – he knows everybody in our industry." -- Gary Tesch, Regional President, Coventry Homes, a Dream Finders Homes firm.

Together with

Builder Advisor Group

Margin Pressure Mounts In A Higher-For-Longer Marathon

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.

UHG Picks Raleigh-Based Herring As Its First Step In An M&A Spree

Land

UHG Picks Raleigh-Based Herring As Its First Step In An M&A Spree

The move comes in a homebuilding and development business environment vibrating now with mergers and acquisitions courtships, particularly in America's domestic migration and regional economic growth magnets.

A Land 'Reload' Is A Pain Point Builders Did Not Expect In 2023

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.

Value Engineering Is Only Partly About Design And Price ... It's A Strategy

Architecture

Value Engineering Is Only Partly About Design And Price ... It's A Strategy

Tactics and tailwinds – necessary and successful as they've been in stemming what could have been a rout from the start of 2023 – amount to this: They've bought builders time.

Land Deals Pivot From Fast-Forward To Pause, But For How Long?

Land

Land Deals Pivot From Fast-Forward To Pause, But For How Long?

Wait-and-see kicks into effect, with a few noteworthy walk-aways and some agreements falling through at the 11th hour. The question is how long land in limbo can last.

Houston Rocket Fuel: Starwood Pairs Up With Land Tejas MPCs

Land

Houston Rocket Fuel: Starwood Pairs Up With Land Tejas MPCs

As builders and their partners search and vie for visibility and predictability in early 2022, true north will point to fewer, larger mega platform master plans and land banks. Here's a case in point.

Remote Control: Here's CoreLogic's 15 Hottest Cities

Land

Remote Control: Here's CoreLogic's 15 Hottest Cities

Will the drivers that set the tone for 2020 migration patterns continue to reshape real estate strategy beyond the near-term? Or are we in limbo?

Here's A Look At The $338M New Home-Apollo Deal, And What It Means

Capital

Here's A Look At The $338M New Home-Apollo Deal, And What It Means

TBD's exclusive analysis of a homebuilder M&A transaction that bears not just on the future of one of the industry's premium operators, but on what happens next in a business environment shrouded in uncertainty.

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Meritage's Elliott Deal Signals New Stakes In Mid-2020s Land Rush

Land

Meritage's Elliott Deal Signals New Stakes In Mid-2020s Land Rush

Meritage Homes' Gulf Coast expansion highlights the elevated pressure among public builders to secure land for higher-velocity, affordable growth.

Lending More Than $700 Million In '23, Avila Real Estate Capital Reaches A&D Zenith

Capital

Lending More Than $700 Million In '23, Avila Real Estate Capital Reaches A&D Zenith

"The Avila team has always been a tremendous resource. He knows the builders, the capital partners – he knows everybody in our industry." -- Gary Tesch, Regional President, Coventry Homes, a Dream Finders Homes firm.

Together with

Builder Advisor Group

Margin Pressure Mounts In A Higher-For-Longer Marathon

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.

UHG Picks Raleigh-Based Herring As Its First Step In An M&A Spree

Land

UHG Picks Raleigh-Based Herring As Its First Step In An M&A Spree

The move comes in a homebuilding and development business environment vibrating now with mergers and acquisitions courtships, particularly in America's domestic migration and regional economic growth magnets.

A Land 'Reload' Is A Pain Point Builders Did Not Expect In 2023

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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Meritage's Elliott Deal Signals New Stakes In Mid-2020s Land Rush

Land 10.31.24

Meritage's Elliott Deal Signals New Stakes In Mid-2020s Land Rush

Meritage Homes' Gulf Coast expansion highlights the elevated pressure among public builders to secure land for higher-velocity, affordable growth.

Lending More Than $700 Million In '23, Avila Real Estate Capital Reaches A&D Zenith

Capital 01.11.24

Lending More Than $700 Million In '23, Avila Real Estate Capital Reaches A&D Zenith

"The Avila team has always been a tremendous resource. He knows the builders, the capital partners – he knows everybody in our industry." -- Gary Tesch, Regional President, Coventry Homes, a Dream Finders Homes firm.

Margin Pressure Mounts In A Higher-For-Longer Marathon

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.

UHG Picks Raleigh-Based Herring As Its First Step In An M&A Spree

Land 08.21.23

UHG Picks Raleigh-Based Herring As Its First Step In An M&A Spree

The move comes in a homebuilding and development business environment vibrating now with mergers and acquisitions courtships, particularly in America's domestic migration and regional economic growth magnets.

A Land 'Reload' Is A Pain Point Builders Did Not Expect In 2023

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.