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T-Time Ticking? Ken Pinto's Q4 Homebuilding Commodities Report
With end-of-year price hikes looming, homebuilders are pushing back harder than ever on material costs. Sharpened cost-control strategies, from commodity tracking to supplier negotiations, will be critical as builders brace for supply chain and demand-driven price shifts.
Products
With Cash From Record Profits, LBM Deals Shake Up Rankings, Portend M&A Arms Race
TBD explores what this week's building channel consolidation moves mean for builders and for the building and real estate landscape in the months ahead.
Technology
Fiber-Timber Bamboo Crops Up As A Spruce, Pine, Fir Alternative Of The Future
Bamcore, a Windsor, CA-based fledgling offsite building platform led by former Goldman Sachs executive Hal Hinkle, has a big, bold, scaleable, sustainable, and doable strategic and operational model, whose moment to shine is now.
Leadership
Supply And Destiny: A Housing Crisis Leadership Story
"Can't not," the equivalent of program trading on Wall Street, leads from unsustainable price increases to a breaking point. Solutions, anyone?
Products
Owed To Plumbers: Waxing Poetic On The Power In Pipes And Wrenches
A WSJ contributing author riffs rhapsodic on plumbers, who "rule[s] supreme atop the pantheon of residential" tradespeople." Here's why.
Products
Lumber Liquidated: What's Next For The Commodity That Ate Building?
As lumber and engineered wood product prices break all historical price barriers, producers begin to pump capital into mill capacity expansion. Too little too late?
