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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.
Land
The Lennar Business System: A How-To For De-Risking Land Buys
Lennar Executive Chairman and Co-CEO Stuart Miller reinforced a mantra he’s been drilling into stakeholders' and observers' heads for years. It’s not complicated to grasp: Starts. Sales. Deliveries.
Technology
Eliminating Guesswork In Real-Time A Key To 2024 Resiliency
In a "VUCA-for-longer" backdrop, guesswork and the wide margins of error needed to sustain viability that go with ballpark ranges, rough estimates, and theoretical outcomes practically beg for extinction moments.
Architecture
'Value Engineering' 2023-Style Adds Real Value As It Cuts Cost
Value engineering needs a reset to satisfy both the business requirements to produce homes profitably in trickier times, and to win over customers whose discrimination and hesitation guards may go up at any moment.
Land
The Private Builders' Dilemma: Sell Now Or Hold The Line In '24
Are strong, local, private homebuilders feeling pressured to sell right now as competition, tight-credit, consumer volatility, and economic questions swirl? We asked. Here's one response.
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Products 02.03.25
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.
Land 03.15.24
The Lennar Business System: A How-To For De-Risking Land Buys
Lennar Executive Chairman and Co-CEO Stuart Miller reinforced a mantra he’s been drilling into stakeholders' and observers' heads for years. It’s not complicated to grasp: Starts. Sales. Deliveries.
Technology 11.07.23
Eliminating Guesswork In Real-Time A Key To 2024 Resiliency
In a "VUCA-for-longer" backdrop, guesswork and the wide margins of error needed to sustain viability that go with ballpark ranges, rough estimates, and theoretical outcomes practically beg for extinction moments.
Architecture 10.06.23
'Value Engineering' 2023-Style Adds Real Value As It Cuts Cost
Value engineering needs a reset to satisfy both the business requirements to produce homes profitably in trickier times, and to win over customers whose discrimination and hesitation guards may go up at any moment.
Land 09.15.23
The Private Builders' Dilemma: Sell Now Or Hold The Line In '24
Are strong, local, private homebuilders feeling pressured to sell right now as competition, tight-credit, consumer volatility, and economic questions swirl? We asked. Here's one response.
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