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Capital
Fed Watch: As Economy Revs Up, All Eyes Are On Interest Rates
At stake in what the Fed signals is a lynchpin of new-home sales momentum that kicked into overdrive practically with the onset of COVID-19 in late winter 2020.
Land
To Detect Job Magnets, Follow Job Opportunity Scorecards
Which top 10 states rankings for job seekers will win out in predicting where young people match up with career opportunity?
Marketing & Sales
With Pandemic-Etched Clarity, 55-Plus Americans Crave Purpose
A more sharply-defined priority around purpose now goes along with health, family, and finance as a must for well-being. And that post-pandemic definition makes a difference to builders.
Products
Mill Work: As Supply Kicks Up; Lumber Futures Go Down
Sawmills pick up their pace of output, rewarding those who can sit out immediate-term scrums for lumber supply, and wait to see where pricing settles in the medium-term.
Land
Drought Shifts Wildfire's Fault Lines Into No Man's Land Buys
Arguments pro and con on the risks of development, where and where not to develop, who's got which rights to do what, etc., are the matters of power, money, and politics. Meanwhile, there's a housing affordability crisis.
Land
To Detect Job Magnets, Follow Job Opportunity Scorecards
Which top 10 states rankings for job seekers will win out in predicting where young people match up with career opportunity?
Products
Mill Work: As Supply Kicks Up; Lumber Futures Go Down
Sawmills pick up their pace of output, rewarding those who can sit out immediate-term scrums for lumber supply, and wait to see where pricing settles in the medium-term.
Brief
Capital 06.15.21
Fed Watch: As Economy Revs Up, All Eyes Are On Interest Rates
At stake in what the Fed signals is a lynchpin of new-home sales momentum that kicked into overdrive practically with the onset of COVID-19 in late winter 2020.
Land 06.15.21
To Detect Job Magnets, Follow Job Opportunity Scorecards
Which top 10 states rankings for job seekers will win out in predicting where young people match up with career opportunity?
Marketing & Sales 06.15.21
With Pandemic-Etched Clarity, 55-Plus Americans Crave Purpose
A more sharply-defined priority around purpose now goes along with health, family, and finance as a must for well-being. And that post-pandemic definition makes a difference to builders.
Products 06.14.21
Mill Work: As Supply Kicks Up; Lumber Futures Go Down
Sawmills pick up their pace of output, rewarding those who can sit out immediate-term scrums for lumber supply, and wait to see where pricing settles in the medium-term.
Land 06.14.21
Drought Shifts Wildfire's Fault Lines Into No Man's Land Buys
Arguments pro and con on the risks of development, where and where not to develop, who's got which rights to do what, etc., are the matters of power, money, and politics. Meanwhile, there's a housing affordability crisis.