TBDLot pipeline
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.