Capital
McKinley Homes Expands to Texas with Liberty Acquisition
The deal highlights the growing importance of private-to-private partnerships in reshaping U.S. homebuilding amid rising competition — in places like Houston, especially — and evolving buyer demands.
Leadership
Olivia Clarke Homes: The Origin Story Is A Story Of Resilience
A story from homebuilding's well of resiliency may always be there if you look for it, but today especially – against a global backdrop of fear, doubt, and uncertainty – we're glad for this one about Olivia Clarke Homes' founder Jennifer Clarke Johnson.
Land
Trumark's Wathen Castanos Buy Puts It On An M&A Fast-Track
With an "imperative" to grow, according to Trumark co-founder and co-CEO Michael Maples, and a green light to tap the deep, highly-motivated capital resources of Daiwa House, he says, "stay tuned."
Land
Beyond The 'What-Inning-Is-It?' Question: 2024-'25 Land-Spend
To feed the machine, public, private, large, medium, or small builders need lots out ahead of them. To keep that machine hungry, builders need those lots to pencil in an environment that's getting tougher and tougher for a larger and larger portion of would-be home buyers.
Land
Grid Block: How A Transformer Shortage Impacts Affordability
Grand Oak Builders president and CEO Dave Erickson lays out the domino effect of an acute shortage of distribution transformers needed to bring new homes and communities onto the grid.
Land
Private Homebuilders Turn To Coopetition As A Path Forward
As Raleigh, N.C.-based Glenwood Homes' big land asset sale to LGI Homes illustrates, win-win-win deals can add optionality and runway to private builders and provide needed finished and unfinished lot inventory to earnings-hungry publics.
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