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Lennar margin ‘circuit breaker’: Is Stuart Miller right, wrong or bluffing?

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A year ago, Stuart Miller described homebuilder margins as a “shock absorber.” The Lennar Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer had begun doing so two or three years earlier, as mortgage-rate pathways began wreaking havoc on the post-pandemic housing market. The metaphor suited the moment. Mortgage rates had risen sharply, and buyer affordability had plummeted […]

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The best real estate agents aren’t tougher, they are more structured

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When every deal feels personal, even winning gets expensive. There is a particular look you start to recognize once you have been around the real estate industry long enough. You know the one. That steely, thousand-yard stare that comes from decades of real estate. It shows up at open houses around hour four. In late-night

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Contrarian Smith Douglas leans into its system, goes for market share

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

Uncertainty, margin compression and the gut-check math of affordability are the givens of a new-home market impatiently waiting for relief on at least one of those three fronts.  Most public homebuilders – facing this indefinite limbo – are doing the same thing: slowing down. Production starts are throttling down. Spec inventory is being sold down.

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Hajime Construction Buys 51% of Utah Builder Wright Homes

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

Japan-based real estate and construction giants have spent the past decade quietly building footholds across the U.S. housing market. By early 2026, those footholds are transforming into a noticeable wave of expansion. The latest development comes from Tokyo-based Hajime Construction Co., Ltd., which announced on March 10 that it has acquired a 51% equity stake

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Bryan-College Station is a Texas sleeper market for builders

Homebuilders, Land, Real Estate, Residential Real Estate, Secondary market, The Builder's Daily /

Most people view Texas in two ways: through our large cities or the stereotypical image of a man on a horse. One is about skyscrapers, private equity, and traffic; the other focuses on boots, cattle, and a mythology that has increased tourism. However, some of the real opportunities in Texas may be found in the

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Fix-and-flips fill a critical entry-level home vacuum, data reveals

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Fix-and-flip investors brought more homes to entry-level market homebuyers in 2025 than homebuilders, a new data analysis from real estate investment platform New Western asserts.  The report defines starter homes as those priced at $261,000 and below. While there aren’t many homes available at that price point in a wide range of major cities, many

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Builders gut check what buyers may like vs. what they’ll pay for

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As home sizes shrink and a new mega-generation ages into the homebuying market, homebuilders may have to rethink certain aspects of home design.  With affordability the main issue for buyers, builders are now working to maximize space with functional design over flash. Buyers are still largely driven by emotion, but they are also constrained by

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Crexi adds residential rental data as rent algorithms face limits

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Strong, accurate residential rent data is becoming a prized asset as lawsuits, regulators and new state laws upend how landlords set rents.​ Los Angeles-based commercial real estate platform Crexi is moving to capitalize on that demand. The company has partnered with Dwellsy, a rental marketplace with extensive residential properties, to plug rent data into Crexi

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New York’s housing crisis won’t be solved by one mega-project

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s attempt to revive an old plan to build 12,000 affordable units over a borough railyard is seen as a long shot, even if he gains support from President Trump. Mamdani has garnered headline attention for proposing to build units on a platform above Sunnyside Yard, a 180-acre freight and

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What war risk could mean for builders, rates and spring demand in 2026

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

Nature abhors a vacuum and does something about it. Homebuilders, their business and channel partners, their investors and lenders and their customers abhor uncertainty. But what can and will they do about it? Other than brace for more bumps. More air pockets. More “buying” of sales rather than selling of American households on houses that

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