Capital
Exclusive: Inside Dream Finders' Bold Liberty Communities Acquisition
The Builder's Daily explores how Dream Finders expands its Southeast U.S. footprint and plans to leverage Liberty’s innovations to compete in 2025’s high-stakes M&A wave.
Capital
Recently-Acquired Firms Better Hit Their Growth Plans, Or Else
The Big Wait: As the Fed maintains a cautious approach toward an eventual pivot on interest rates, homebuilders deal with a seasonal slowdown and an indefinite timeline to the endurance test of stalled demand.
Capital
Why Access Private Credit To Secure A&D Financing? Why Now?
Investment in new housing takes many forms, and private credit funds are now a huge part of it. Here's a primer on the whys and wherefores of one of homebuilders' flexible channels to access capital.
Capital
Doldrums Unsettle Builders As Sales Slow, Cancels Creep Up
A spreading belief among homebuyer prospects is that new home prices must and will come down from where they are and – in light of the growing use of concessions and incentives – that they've already started on their way down.
Capital
Banks Tighten Screws On Builder Loans As Feds Clamp Down
The glimmer of hope homebuilders – specifically, privately-held firms whose capital lines for acquisition, development, construction, and operations tend to come from regional and community banks – got from the recent Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) may be short-lived.
Land
A Start-Up With A Model Built To Scale Up In Scattered Infill Sites
A competitive advantage for a new homebuilding firm in a hotbed of market share-thirsty rivals in North and Central Florida can come only one way – and it's not by outspending them in any part of the end-to-end building lifecycle – the hard way.