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KB Home pivots to its build-to-order strengths, but not without risk

Earnings, Homebuilders, Leadership, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

KB Home’s fiscal Q1 2026 results showed weaker revenue and margin performance alongside a strategic shift that management asserts will improve predictability and profitability later this year. Quarterly revenue was $1.08 billion, down nearly 23% year over year. The average selling price fell 3% sequentially and nearly 10% from a year ago. Gross margin fell […]

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Why modular construction fits high-cost custom markets

Architecture, Homebuilders, Residential Real Estate, Technology, The Builder's Daily /

Modular and panelized construction – often positioned as a tool to expand the supply of affordable housing – is also gaining traction in the luxury, custom homebuilding market. At The SHIFT, a placemaking conference hosted by Tavistock Development Company earlier this month in Orlando, Florida, Plant Prefab Founder and CEO Steve Glenn said off-site methods

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Housing needs a fifth place. It’s how builders design belonging

Homebuilders, Land, Marketing & Sales, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

Let me say something that might make a few developers roll their eyes so hard they pull a muscle. Housing needs a fifth place. Not another splash pad. Not another pickleball court. Not another “resort-style amenity center” with furniture nobody uses. A fifth place. Here’s a quick tutorial on Ray Oldenburg’s framework. The first place

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Rekindling urgency: A Spring Selling 2026 homebuilders elegy

Homebuilders, Leadership, Marketing & Sales, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

Show of hands. Who among us has purchased a home to live in – any home, in any place, at any price – without feeling at some point like we were on an emotional roller coaster? Anybody? Buying a home is one of those acts few would call entirely rational. For most of us, it

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Groundworks aims to train 5,000 trade frontliners to meet repair crisis

Construction, Homebuilders, Leadership, Remodeling Activity, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

Groundworks, a large foundation repair and water management contractor, plans to create 5,000 skilled trades jobs over the next five years as demand for structural and moisture remediation grows across the aging U.S. housing stock, the company said. The Virginia Beach, Virginia-based firm, which operates 84 offices across the U.S. and Canada, called the initiative

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Why these round homes are resilient to hurricanes

Architecture, Homebuilders, Homeowners insurance, Hurricane, The Builder's Daily /

Deltec Homes, an Asheville, North Carolina-based builder of prefabricated, round houses, says its designs can withstand the extreme wind loads associated with a Category 5 hurricane. CEO Meg Gore said the company’s circular footprint and roof system reduce pressure points that can lead to structural failure in high-wind events. “Round really works with nature, instead

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Daiwa House deal adds Washington foothold as Trumark buys JK Monarch

Daiwa House deal adds Washington foothold as Trumark buys JK Monarch

Homebuilders, Leadership, Mergers and Acquisitions, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

Before Daiwa House Industry unveils its 8th Medium-Term Management Plan this May, the globally integrated real estate giant has already achieved – and possibly surpassed – the goals of its previous 10-year U.S. expansion plan. With Trumark Homes’ acquisition of Washington-based JK Monarch, Daiwa House’s U.S. homebuilding platform now spans cohesively across the country’s busiest

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January new home sales fall 17.6%, weather and rates in focus

Homebuilders, Marketing & Sales, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

After seeing an uptick in sales last year, the nationwide new home market experienced a sharp drop in new home sales activity in January, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s New Residential Sales report released on Thursday. Economists say that this could be a momentary drop due to extreme weather conditions, or that the sales

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BFS CEO Jackson maps a bigger role in homebuilding workflows

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Builders FirstSource‘s decade-long strategic jag has expanded the construction giant beyond its traditional role as a building materials supplier, pitching itself as a full-service partner that can support homebuilders with planning, procurement, delivery, installation and digital project management. In a one-on-one interview with The Builder’s Daily, CEO Peter Jackson said the company’s acquisition strategy and technology

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Fewer buyers are interested in newly built homes

Homebuilders, Housing markets, Mortgages, REALTORS & HOMEBUILDERS /

There was less interest in buying a newly constructed home last month, as macroeconomic uncertainty squashed a recent market rally.  Processing Content New home purchase applications for February were up 0.9% from the same time last year, but down 1% from January, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Thursday. The tepid Builder Application Survey results follow

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