Land
Steel, Skeptics, And The Real Innovators In U.S. Homebuilding
TBD MasterClass contributor Scott Finfer shares a brutally honest tale of land, failed dreams, and a new bet on steel-frame homes in Texas. It's not just bold — it might actually work.
Leadership
The 'Lennar Machine,' A Cycle-Proof Growth Plan Proves Itself
The Machine's central implication for Lennar as one of the leading $30-billion-plus competitors in its markets is as a pace and production-first operator that models growth and profitability around those tenets as imperatives.
Land
Will Spring's Green Shoots Take Firm Root In A Higher-Rate Era?
After today's expected Fed pause and plans to continue to raise its funds rate twice more this year, the stress tests -- on consumer households, employers, and financial markets -- will continue to try to shock them into capitulation.
Land
Buyers Now Can Swap An Old Home For A New One On The Same Site
"People would look at the homes we're already building in their neighborhoods, the sites with the TJH branding on the fence wrap around the job site, and they asked us, 'how do I get what you're doing here where I am on my site?'" -- Tommy Beadel, founder, CEO, Thomas James Homes
Land
Woodside Homes Is Finalizing Purchase Of Boise-Area's Hubble Homes
Hubble Homes has been built under the steady, service-as-a-strategy hand of E. Don Hubble, who at age 73 is said to be "choosing to take his chips off the table at the top of his game." He's created a strong business culture and a land position in what's viewed as a resurgent Boise marketplace.
Land
'People's Memories Are Short' - A Natural Hazard Axiom Gets A Real-Time Stress Test
What happens when abstraction crashes into homebuilding and development's real-world, morning, noon, and evening reality?