TBDLand strategy
Leadership
Is This Time Different? Builders' Playbooks Look For The Same Gains, With Different Plays
Builders downturn strategies typically call for narrowing the pricing gap that gives existing home sellers an edge when demand is low. It's the same now, only different.
Leadership
Green Brick Strategy, Focus On Execution, Bode Well In 2023
Being good, which is a prerequisite for being lucky, means "knowing how they make money," which is a blend of strategy and discipline – i.e. land and product – and operational excellence and execution, which redound to pricing. Put together, they make a homebuilder stand apart.
Leadership
Spring Leaning: Pulte's Plan To Excel, Adjust, Reset, And Roll
The burning question: How it is the Pulte team manages to improve on its gross margin edge over peers, and on the other hand projects it will continue to drive pace amidst building price and margin pressures in the horizon.
Land
Who Needs Who More? Do BTR Buyers Have The 'Say' On Prices?
A multiregional homebuilding executive strategist clocks in with word that failed deals on the BTR front are resulting in calls from developer/investors saying, 'Hey! You want to buy some lots?'
Leadership
A Real-Time Practical Survive-To Thrive Field Guide For What's Next
Almost all of the risk preparation builders and developers need to do to weather late '22 and 2023 should already have been done -- and in many cases, has. Still, it's not too late to cut losses and secure gains for the next stretch. Here's how.
Land strategy
Leadership 03.08.23
Is This Time Different? Builders' Playbooks Look For The Same Gains, With Different Plays
Builders downturn strategies typically call for narrowing the pricing gap that gives existing home sellers an edge when demand is low. It's the same now, only different.
Leadership 03.01.23
Green Brick Strategy, Focus On Execution, Bode Well In 2023
Being good, which is a prerequisite for being lucky, means "knowing how they make money," which is a blend of strategy and discipline – i.e. land and product – and operational excellence and execution, which redound to pricing. Put together, they make a homebuilder stand apart.
Leadership 02.01.23
Spring Leaning: Pulte's Plan To Excel, Adjust, Reset, And Roll
The burning question: How it is the Pulte team manages to improve on its gross margin edge over peers, and on the other hand projects it will continue to drive pace amidst building price and margin pressures in the horizon.
Land 01.11.23
Who Needs Who More? Do BTR Buyers Have The 'Say' On Prices?
A multiregional homebuilding executive strategist clocks in with word that failed deals on the BTR front are resulting in calls from developer/investors saying, 'Hey! You want to buy some lots?'
Leadership 09.23.22
A Real-Time Practical Survive-To Thrive Field Guide For What's Next
Almost all of the risk preparation builders and developers need to do to weather late '22 and 2023 should already have been done -- and in many cases, has. Still, it's not too late to cut losses and secure gains for the next stretch. Here's how.