Leadership Fire-Ready Future Forward: KB Home Builds Hardened Homes At Scale Escondido, CA-area’s Dixon Trail becomes the nation’s first IBHS-certified Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood—fusing resilience, affordability, and innovation into a new model for community design.
Technology Home Grown: An Inflection Point For Builder Technology In 2025 Homebuilders need faster, cleaner decisions to protect margins and stay competitive. The Builder’s Daily explores a fully-integrated building lifecycle solution that promises operational traction when every move matters.
Leadership KB Home Guidance Cut Bodes Sharper Sector Challenges Ahead In a reflection of broader market tensions, KB Home — following on an earlier lowered guidance from Lennar — drastically revises its 2025 outlook downward amid weakening consumer confidence and escalating costs.
Leadership Lennar: Volume Wins, Everyone Else Adjusts To 'Share The Pain' In a slower housing market, Lennar leans into a land-light, asset-light strategy, doubling down on sales pace—even at the cost of incentives and margin compression. The message to suppliers: help us cut costs, or risk being cut out.
Marketing & Sales Research: Supply Constraint Is Not No. 1 Driver Of Housing Crisis Findings imply that constrained housing supply is relatively unimportant in explaining differences in rising house prices among U.S. cities -- suggesting that easing housing supply constraints may not yield the anticipated improvements in housing affordability.