Success in homebuilding over the ages shows a rare, often counterintuitive balance between what changes in an instant and what remains timeless. Living legends of the business – like NVR founder Dwight Schar – wise up to the fundamental role of land in housing, understanding that it holds a genomic key to homes, prices, processes, […]
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I love Jerusalem Demsas’ “Housing Breaks People’s Brains” article in The Atlantic from November 2022. For me, it’s a trailhead for understanding why efforts and solutions aimed at the housing access and attainability crisis for so many Americans often short-circuit and fizzle before they can fix anything. Demsas’ unflinching reporting on “localism and shortage denialism”
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In today’s challenging homebuilding environment, builders are often presented with a lesser-of-evils choice: maintain a strong sales pace at the expense of slimmer margins, or sacrifice market share in favor of higher profitability. Multi-regional private homebuilding powerhouse Ashton Woods chose the former, increasing its community count and maintaining its sales and closings pace, according to
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U.S. Bank has turned to Built Technologies, which provides technology for real estate and construction finance, to help manage its portion of this process. Processing Content The bank says it will be able to fund projects faster as well as give clients real-time visibility into each step in the construction process and the related financing.
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All eyes are on Lennar’s forthcoming 10-K filing, maybe as soon as Thursday, as a wave of investor questions converges around one central issue: How much financial risk – recognized or not – sits inside the company’s land-light strategy? In recent days, that question has pitched from a routine analyst inquiry into a whirlwind of
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The U.S. homebuilding industry remains more fragmented than outsiders believe, even after years of consolidation. Lennar continues to be one of the biggest builders in the country, but size alone isn’t the main factor anymore; the next advantage comes from blending operational efficiency with customer segmentation. That is why KB Home appears to be a
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LoanDepot is behind a new mortgage business from West Texas-based Betenbough Cos., helping launch the affiliate as part of an expanded strategy to expand upon homebuilder partnerships. Processing Content Olive Branch Home Loans will serve customers of Betenbough, a top 50 builder based in Lubbock. Betenbough sells its homes through eight sales centers located throughout
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It may come as a surprise amid the noise, negativity, and volatility in today’s new-home market that Florida remains one of the most dynamic homebuilding markets in the country. The housing landscape in the nation’s third-most-populous state shares a vertiginous, bumpy near-term outlook with other Sun Belt markets. The region has been challenging for homebuilders.
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BuildersUpdate.com has rolled out a “pay upon performance” model that shifts new-home marketing costs from upfront spend to a flat fee due only when a sale closes, aiming squarely at builders’ growing concern over wasted lead-gen dollars in a choppy demand and rate environment. Announced March 26, 2026, the program lets homebuilders list communities on
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For the past decade, Dallas-Fort Worth’s housing story has been written in bold letters along the U.S. 75 corridor – Frisco, McKinney, Plano and every patch of land north of there that could support a rooftop and a Starbucks. The northeast corner became a symbol of Texas growth: prices soared, commutes stretched and master-planned communities
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