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.
Architecture
Value Engineering Is Only Partly About Design And Price ... It's A Strategy
Tactics and tailwinds – necessary and successful as they've been in stemming what could have been a rout from the start of 2023 – amount to this: They've bought builders time.
Land
Now That Builders' Have Pace In Hand, The Worry Turns To Land
Many homebuilders, giddy about the fact that they're selling homes when they didn't know for sure what would be going on right now, now begin to feel uneasy about backing up their legacy land deals with new lot pipelines.
Leadership
Another Monday In Builderland, With A Birthday To Celebrate
Homebuilder and their partner business teams put themselves in a position to pivot and play aggressively, rather than to simply concede to gravity and the headline risk cycle.
Capital
Homebuilding's Newest Public Goes Live Day One On Nasdaq
While it took more work and time to cross the finish line as a listed enterprise, the premise and promise of Columbia, S.C.-based United Homes Group, up-to-now a regional powerhouse, remains undeterred and poised for a launch.
Technology
Trailblazers '23: Higharc Teams Up With Giants To Power Build-Cycle
"This enables agility to flow down that value chain, ultimately to where builders can engage consumers with things like a 3D, automotive-style configurator experience," Higharc ceo Marc Minor says. "The market needs more of that now."