As public homebuilders work to reduce their spec inventory and strike price-pace-and-incentives balances that best fit their land positions and operational fortes, Century Communities strategists are betting they can win on underpricing peers and rebuilding margins on the back of operational excellence and production velocity. So while other top-15 ranked public builder competitors have chosen a binary...

A third go at trying to reboot starter-home construction in Minnesota is on life support at the state Legislature, with supporters scrambling to revive it before the session ends. High-profile zoning reform bills failed in a House committee and missed key Senate deadlines late last month, potentially dooming the effort as had happened over the past two years. The bipartisan Starter Homes Act –...

Maybe your kitchen is looking a little dated or lackluster. Or maybe you’d just like to switch up its style. Whatever your motivation, you don’t need to dive into a major kitchen renovation to make significant upgrades. Here are 10 simple yet strategic ways to give your kitchen a fresh new look and...

A South Florida digital financial market infrastructure company aims to reshape how global real estate is invested, traded, predicted and financed--by turning property into a continuously traded, liquid and programmable asset class. Vector Markets, a Miami-based fintech company founded by Michael J. Gerrity, is developing what it describes as a "parallel digital financial market ecosystem." At the center...

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A new study conducted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) shows that more young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 are expressing interest in construction trades, though industry leaders say more work is needed to raise awareness of the sector's earning potential and career opportunities. The findings build on a similar NAHB survey conducted in 2016. The share of young adults interested...

A new study conducted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) shows that more young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 are expressing interest in construction trades, though industry leaders say more work is needed to raise awareness of the sector's earning potential and career opportunities. The findings build on a similar NAHB survey conducted in 2016. The share of young adults interested...

Securing homeowners’ insurance is reshaping the homebuying process itself. Premiums are rising, carriers are pulling back from entire states and buyers are increasingly discovering, sometimes days before closing, that the home they plan to purchase is either too expensive to insure or cannot be insured at all. What was once a routine, last-step check is now introducing unnecessary uncertainty into the...

To my shock, housing demand grew noticeably last week, even though the war with Iran continues and mortgage rates are higher today than before the war started. Last week was one of the more positive reports since I started writing the Housing Market Tracker at the end of 2022. Everything I want to see in our weekend tracker for a healthy, positive housing market happened. We have had a lot of dramatic...