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
As Bastion Of Future Demand, Demographics' Heyday Is Over
We're seeing the beginning of the end of demographics and generational cohorts as tools to measure market size and demand drivers. Here's the X factor we see as a bulwark of business strategy for the decade ahead.
Marketing & Sales
Hidden In Plain Sight, The Baby Boom May Be The Next Big Thing
Homebuilders, developers, and investors fixate on younger adult buyers and their path into new homeownership. Meanwhile, a still untapped -- and unconventional -- market lies ahead in a longer 55-plus runway.
Marketing & Sales
What To Watch: How To Model For An Either-Way Year Ahead
How might we pick up telltales that better help us predict what's ahead? Looking back at "trends that have been stopped in their tracks" may offer clues.
Marketing & Sales
A New Venture Erases Boundary Between Model Home And VR
Builders Design teams with Focus 360 to fuse physical world design's emotive power with the everywhere-ability of virtual reality -- giving builders a more direct digital thread to the minds, hearts, and purses of homebuyers.
Leadership
Root Causes: Future-Fit Building Firms Reset Who's A Customer
In this first-of-a-series of beyond-the-budget housing analyses, we'd challenge business leaders to now consider reframing customer-centricity as a strategic foundation to secure and sustain capability.