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.
Together with
John Burns Research & Consulting
Marketing & Sales
Bubble? No Bubble? Sometimes You Just Have To Trust Your Gut
By-the-numbers takes a more personal turn, to see the writing on the wall. When there's a disparity between housing economic models and common sense, it may be that the models aren't up to the task.
Marketing & Sales
As Uncertainty Kicks Up, CX's Value Grows As A Builder's Tool
Here's how the role of machine learning-enabled consumer experience focus expands as tidal new-home demand morphs in the direction of value-driven discretionary buyers.
Together with
Cecilian Partners
Leadership
Customer Focus Point: Mind The Growing Gap Impact On Demand
The simple math of market-rate demand that is cushioned from a new raft of X factors has suddenly gotten more complicated. Simple rule: Take no customer for granted.
Leadership
Signal Vs Noise: As Fed Shifts, Double-Down On People Care
Amid a rocky patch of higher cost inflation and likely interest rate increases, focus on customers -- and the new map of their motivations -- will set sharp competitive boundaries.
Marketing & Sales
Century's 'Buy-Now' Ground-Breaker Shifts The CX Goal Line
Here Century Communities president Liesel Cooper unpacks the strategic, operational, and consumer-focus reasons for cutting over to its click-to-buy contract platform. And, she affirms the "integral ongoing role" of sales associates in the new normal.