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 Wage Vs. Price Wedge Widens, Interest Rates Matter More
The pace of price increases is faster than wage growth in many places, exposing a fault line defined by historically low interest rates to narrow the gap to attainability.
Marketing & Sales
Sneak Peak: As Sales Top Out, Signs Of Softening Multiply
Keeping an eye on new-home "search" behavior offers a smart way to take stock on signals versus noise in the next several months.
Marketing & Sales
As More Home-Seekers Click-To-Pay, Builders Bypass Middlemen
The pandemic-accelerated arrival of end-to-end digital search, selection, personalization, and purchase among homebuilding's power players has two profound sea-change implications. Here they are.
Marketing & Sales
America's Covid Baby Bust Means The Future Has Arrived Early For Homebuilders
Demographics, the structural basis for long-range optimism in residential investment, real estate development, construction, distribution, and related manufacturing and partner businesses, has suddenly hoisted a Jolly Roger.
Marketing & Sales
Kids Go Missing In Action As American Households Change
The demos don't lie. With fertility rates falling and Baby Boom generation adults rotating into older ages, housing's transformation is a non-negotiable.