TBDLot pipeline

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.

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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.

Lot pipeline

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.

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

Architecture 05.01.23

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 08.04.22

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.