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| The Builder’s Daily Thanks You For 2 Magical Years, & Counting | More than 700 The Builder’s Daily original posts and two magical years ago, I invited and challenged you to regard yourselves in a fresh light, as solutions-seekers to housing’s “echochamber” challenges, ones that go hand in hand with epic ... |
| 2024’s Top 10 New Trends In Homebuilding: No. 2 Gen A.I. | Some days, we start with a digression. Today is one.
Around this time of year, many years ago, the CEO of the firm I worked for challenged every one of my managerial colleagues and me to come up with the best ideas we could to improve our r... |
| Tuskes Homes: Building Legacy And Leadership For Tomorrow | In American homebuilding, family-owned firms represent the industry’s soul. Their names dot suburban communities and rural townships alike, building not just houses but local economies, civic relationships, and lifelong reputations. These b... |
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Weekley, PulteGroup, Tri Pointe Nab ‘Best Place To Work’ Honors | The only passage to a brightly lit future of market-rate homebuilding, development, investment heads straight through the clouds of now, real-time. Real-time now is volatile, complicated, testy. Still, that doesn’t make real-time the wrong ... |
| A National Homebuilding Comp Report Details Industry Pay Grades | Affordability’s sunk to decade-long lows.
Interest rates are parked in higher-for-longer mode until at least May this year.
Regulation, zoning, and local barriers lay out minefields of entitlement risk.
Building homes affordably for people ... |
| What The $4.9 Billion Blockbuster Sekisui House Purchase Of MDC Means | A top-five-ranked U.S. homebuilding company doesn’t happen overnight.
Except when it does.
In a global business marriage that promises not just to reset power balances among U.S. homebuilding’s upper-echelon organizations, but – over the lo... |
| As Builders Eye Future Growth, It’s Time For A ‘People Pipeline’ | The talk-track a third of the way through the 2nd quarter of 2023 – and well into Spring Selling season – is no longer a surprise. New home sales have outpaced expectations. They’ve done so sequentially, and in a steadily improving trajecto... |
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Will Homebuilders Backslide On Building Frontline Capability Now? | This week lands us in the thick of public homebuilders’ 3rd-quarter calendar year 2022 earnings season. In succession, they’re likely to report terrific results based on business they booked nearly a year ago, challenged results based on wh... |
| Taylor Morrison’s Voyager Push Mints New Supers In Six Weeks | It hit home – literally — early one February 2022 morning for 35-year-old John Harbin, a thermos cup of coffee in one hand and a tablet in the other.
The former U.S. Army vet – on the eve of graduating as one of the first six enrollees in T... |
| C-Level Set: Homebuilding’s Top Strategists’ 2022 Pay Packages | AboutLearn more
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Land-Light, Land-Bank Pivot Reshapes Homebuilding Teams | This time is different. Often, that’s just not the case. But in homebuilding, now and for the foreseeable future, this time is different, changing from the ground up.
The U.S. homebuilding industry is rewriting its rulebook, transitioning f... |
| Navigating The Margins: How Private Builders Can Get An Edge | For all comers in housing right now, the next decade looks swell, the next 12 to 24 months, not so much.
A lot of industry experts who assured us 10 months or a year ago that homebuilding and sales activity were headed to pre-pandemic “norm... |
| Sumitomo Forestry Sharpens U.S. Focus With DRB Move | Ronny Salameh is now one of the most important strategic leaders in U.S. homebuilding, and that’s no accident.
The March 2025 consolidation of Brightland Homes into DRB Group, announced by Sumitomo Forestry America, Inc., reflects more than... |
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Davidson Homes Seals Down Last Details To Acquire Evermore Homes | In a homebuilding M&A move that principals involved in the combination say is set to close officially by midnight tonight, Davidson Homes is finalizing details in its purchase of Columbus, GA-based, multiregional private operator Evermo... |
| Camillo Weds Its Brand Family With A Newly-Spoken Vow: Opening Doors | Necessity may be the mother of invention, but without exception, strong traces of character are inevitably present in invention’s DNA.
Camillo may be one of the biggest names in American residential real estate and construction you may neve... |
| Inside Landsea’s Playbook For M&A Integration And Market Lift-Off | Landsea Homes’s launch last week of its High Performance Home program in its recently-redoubled Dallas-Fort Worth market offers a strategic lens into homebuilding’s macro narrative of market share wars, local scale, and longer-term housing ... |
| As Layoffs Take A Toll, Some Builders Scramble, Some Upgrade | Layoffs are a thing in homebuilding, except where they’re not.
Inside this paradox, a plotline new in the past 10 years or so to the residential construction sector and its shifting ecosystem is playing out as game-changing.
Culture as a re... |
| Davidson Homes Gets In Growth’s Fast-Lane As It Builds Out Its Destiny | Think Ashton Woods ceo Ken Balogh, circa 2011.
Think LGI Homes ceo Eric Lipar, circa 2012 or so.
Think Dream Finders Homes’ ceo Patrick Zalupski, circa 2018 or so.
If you knew Ken, Eric, and Patrick back when, it’s absolutely no surprise to... |
| Bob Toll, A Homebuilding Legend, Leaves A Mark Of Incomparable Impact | We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness…” – Richard Wagner
In Wagner’s Ring Cycle, an epic work in an artform the late Robert I. Toll held near-and-dear to his... |
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Homebuilding’s Top 10 Trends In ’24: No. 10 Land’s New Rulebook | Builders by and large wind up 2023 feeling cheery about what’s ahead.
For a big clue of just how bullish they are, look no further than at their redoubled focus on land – getting it, getting it right, and transforming it into every homebuil... |
| Homebuilders Re-ignite Sales Toolkits As Markets Lose Steam | We haven’t sold a house in the last three weeks.”
That came last week from the ceo of a mountain states-based privately-held production homebuilding firm. He added that zero sales in three weeks’ time is a first in almost two years.
He’d ex... |
| Public CEO Compensation Averaged $11.5 Million In 2023 | AboutLearn more
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| Challenges, Compensation, and Leadership Breakthroughs In 2025 | [Data visualization below by Maggie Goldstone]
At The Builder’s Daily Focus On Excellence Leadership Forum and Workshop in Austin this past October, Cory Boydston — a board member of firms like Builders FirstSource and the New Home Company ... |
| Sekisui House Re-Sets U.S. Strategic Leadership In New Growth Drive | With an eye toward driving to an ambitious goal of producing and selling 9,000 homes or more in the U.S. by 2025, SH Residential Holdings elevated Toru Tsuji to CEO of Sekisui House’s U.S. portfolio of homebuilding and residential developme... |
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Landsea Adds Colorado To Its Map With Richfield Homes Deal | Landsea Homes’ aggressive move up the charts among the nation’s biggest homebuilding and residential real estate enterprises gets another burst of momentum in typical fashion, by securing a dynamic and potent springboard in a top-15 U.S. ne... |
| Squeezed On Three Fronts, Private Builders Pare Back Staff | The asset-lighter, market-share-forward, tech-and-data-powered strategies of the nation’s big, national, public homebuilding enterprises are playing out now in real-time, with private, more locally-focused firms feeling the full destabilizi... |