Leadership
Eastwood Homes, Napolitano Unite In Culture-First M&A Deal
In a rare private-to-private M&A deal, Eastwood Homes acquires Virginia’s Napolitano Homes—uniting two family-founded builders in a move that blends culture, strategic market expansion, product synergy, and generational transition.
Leadership
A Winners Vs. Losers Patch Ahead Give Speed And Value An Edge
Interest rates and inflation may price out the price-sensitive 'needs-driven' buyers; leaving a more discriminating buyer household still active, and seeking value.
Leadership
As Housing Weathers A New Market, A New Normal Awaits
It's on the leaders of homebuilding and their partner organizations to envision and stand for a new normal on the other end of bumpy, choppy, iffy market conditions ahead.
Leadership
Leaders' Playbook: As Housing Risk Brews, The Focus Is Forward
Headwinds, tailwinds, crosscurrents, and riptides ... they're the executional and operational stepping stones to the future of private sector housing success.
Leadership
It Rhymes With Trouble And Flashes Orange Before It Goes Red
For Frank Anton, the strongest signals in housing are ones that impact a stark 'fundamentals' gap between households' payment power and the combo of asking prices and monthly costs. Data, evidence, action.
Land
Lennar Mini M&A Spree Continues With Buy Of Columbia, S.C. Firm
The purchase of Executive Construction Homes reflects how secondary, and tertiary markets — getting a pandemic era economic lift — have spiked as prime targets for opportunity as land and building capability blend with technologies, and nimbler operational and selling processes.