Sep 08, 2025
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In a housing economy testing every lever of operational and financial resiliency, homebuilders face a difficult, almost paradoxical ask: move faster, build smarter, and spend less — all while navigating buyer hesitancy, macroeconomic landmines, and a new era of scrutiny from capital partners. Margins thin. Incentives balloon. The clock is ticking. In the face of […]
Aug 22, 2025
Cities across America face an intensifying financial reckoning, with mounting evidence showing that the status quo in downtown real estate is unsustainable. As pandemic aftershocks linger, city budgets are buckling under falling property values prompted by mostly vacant, obsolete office buildings. Experts warn that if municipal leaders, investors, and developers fail to act, the consequences […]
Aug 22, 2025
California housing advocates had hoped that a state law passed four years ago would help bring modest density to fire-ravaged areas around Los Angeles. That won’t be happening in the Pacific Palisades area, one of the hardest hit by Los Angeles-area catastrophic wildfires. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass recently signed an emergency executive order that bars […]
Aug 21, 2025
While Texas lawmakers were busy passing laws this year to make housing more plentiful through modest density measures, a new development near Houston was already on that path. Indigo, a master-planned community in Fort Bend County designed by JZMK Partners and Dahlin Architecture | Planning | Interiors, demonstrates what can happen with planning: homes priced […]
Aug 21, 2025
In 2025, life circumstances trump preferences. “Life-happens” motivators come in different brands and colors, but they share common ground in how they work – even now – amidst a broad and deep pall of uncertainty. Job relocations, family changes, and evolving household structures create urgency that cuts through market hesitation. With affordability challenges, mortgage rates […]
Aug 21, 2025
When Warren Buffett moves, markets pay attention. Berkshire Hathaway’s disclosure last week that it had taken fresh stakes in D.R. Horton and Lennar—two of America’s largest homebuilders—comes at a moment when the housing market feels fragile, uncertain, and in many ways stalled. On the surface, the move looks like a classic Buffett contrarian play: buying […]
Aug 20, 2025
By Colorado state law, Denver had to remove parking requirements for specific residential developments. The city council this past week decided to up the ante and remove parking minimums altogether throughout the city. While the decision affects all types of new development, the quest to make housing easier and more affordable to build became a […]
Aug 19, 2025
For years, builders treated insurance as a back-end detail — something to finalize at closing after the hard work of land acquisition, entitlement, design, and construction was done. But in 2025, insurance has moved upstream. For many projects, it’s now one of the earliest — and most decisive — tests in the new-home building lifecycle […]
Aug 19, 2025
[Image IDs, from left: Tyler Belcher, Executive VP, Signature Homes, Kyle Bear, VP Research & Development, Signature Homes, Marc Minor, Co-Founder, CEO, Higharc, and John McManus, The Builder’s Daily] The American new-home market looks and feels like it’s trying to run in ankle-deep mud. Sales are happening, but every deal feels harder to land than […]
Aug 18, 2025
New home markets give and new home markets take away. This one – right now – is giving very few homebuilders a break. A few consider that turbulence and drag one of this cycle’s biggest opportunities. Single-family permits have been sliding for six straight months. Buyer mobility is at historic lows. Affordability has hardened into […]
Aug 15, 2025
In the boom years, recognition came with the turf. When Fortune’s Great Places to Work list came out in 2022, 2023, and 2024, homebuilders were fairly coasting on a pandemic afterglow — demand outpacing supply, resales scarce, margins fat – the only game in town. The list landed in an environment where growth felt inevitable. […]
Aug 14, 2025
