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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.
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What Is Affordable? Do Market Rate Builders Need To Know?
Monthly payment power equates to how builders measure their ability to build and deliver affordably. Interest rates are the biggest stressor to this benchmark in the near future.
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Sticker Shock Has Brought Down Titans Before ... It Can Do So Again
Builders -- whether they want to or not -- are testing price elasticity limits of customers. Those customers have a known history of changing their behavior when costs exceed their tolerance point. Here's how.
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As Stresses Pile Up, People Mean More Than Ever As Ways Forward
None of today's array of risks, threats, and challenges is insurmountable if leaders sustain the trust, resolve, and focus of team members.
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A Spectre Of Back-Charges Challenges Builder Performance
Who will pay for all the variations to original purchase order agreements and deliveries amidst supply chain chaos? Where field challenges roll up to business risks.
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Fits And Starts: Housing Business Leaders' Biggest Risk
Looming underneath housing's present-day struggles with its construction supply chain, the issue of supply itself. Fixing the supply chain won't fix that. Here's what might.