Marketing & Sales
A Sneak Preview Of '25: A Tale Of Two Homebuilding Markets
As the housing market faces shifting demographics, affordability pressures, and regional disparities, the year ahead will favor the well-capitalized and operationally agile.
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John Burns Research & Consulting
Leadership
Hovnanian Embraces Higher Spec Counts To Battle Customer Angst
Here are six take-away insights from Hovnanian execs wrap-up of fiscal year 2022 and Q1 guidance on 2023.
Leadership
Take-Aways: Six Insights Into Toll Brothers' Path To '24 And Beyond
The resiliency of the Toll Brothers backlog offers greater visibility and strategic optionality many homebuilding enterprise peers have to enter a tough 2023 without.
Marketing & Sales
Homebuilders And Incentives: The Story Is Still A Work In Progress
It's no surprise that surveys of builders over the past several months reflect both a limbo of unknowing, and a blend of what's-going-on-on-the-ground and wishful thinking with respect to the Fed's next move and how it could positively jolt buyer momentum.
Marketing & Sales
Spectator Or Player? The Choice In 2023's Housing Market Is Yours
The calculus – given that the next step up in Fed funds rates, the ultimate peak rate, and the duration of the plateau at the peak rate remain unknowns – for homebuilders sorts out as a split between what they can do and what they have to have patience and staying power to wait it out.
Marketing & Sales
What Happens As One-Person Households Reach Critical Mass?
Oops! They have! Almost 38 million of the U.S.’s 131 million households are one-person households. Compare that to the raw number of married-with-children-under-age-18 households: 23 million or so. That number’s falling.