Leadership
Rachel Bardis: Building A New Blueprint For Community Living
A family legacy in homebuilding gave Rachel Bardis a foundation. Now, as COO of Somers West, she’s applying risk strategy, development grit, and a deep sense of purpose to Braden—an ambitious new master-planned community near Sacramento.
Leadership
Fall Focus: 3 Lenses A Housing Leader Needs For '22 Results
Trade-offs may be a hallmark of smart deal-making in real estate. What homebuilding strategic leaders can not afford to trade-off on is deep focus, the ability to keep near-, mid-, and long-term priorities equally sharp.
Marketing & Sales
Notes On A Fall Weekend For Homebuilders In 21's Home Stretch
What do the 'dynamics' of housing, the economy, policy, the pandemic, and social upheaval challenge building's leaders to do as 2021 leads to next year?
Land
Spec Power: Why Move-In-Ready New Homes Are Key To '22 Plans
Here's how Century Communities' Complete line cuts through some of the supply chain and labor constraint bottlenecks as it fuels expansion to America's hot markets of tomorrow.
Land
Q4 Deals: Lennar Lands Carolina Coastal Stalwart Realstar Homes
As tertiary market power shift brightens local market attraction, small deals become a big deal in new-normal M&A.
Land
Will Real Estate Remap Value To Waterfront, Fire Zone Threats?
A longer tail of implied promise in property's value may begin to trigger land price adjustments, contract modifications, etc. Here's why.