The story of American homebuilding is mostly one of bootstrapped businesses. They mostly get forged in hard circumstances, with a single, almost instantaneous reckoning that there are no shortcuts to success … or even to being around in five years, fighting to achieve it. It requires leaders willing to take risks across land, capital, construction, […]
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Stanley Martin Homes announced on Monday that its $221 million, all-cash acquisition of United Homes Group Inc. had closed, immediately scaling its presence in several of the Southeast’s fastest-growing housing markets. With the deal, which was first announced in February, United Homes becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Stanley Martin, and its common stock has
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Ben Harris and Michael Copeland have joined View Homes as division presidents for Colorado and San Antonio, respectively, while Alyson Benn has been named vice president of corporate marketing, the Builder 100 homebuilder announced Monday. The appointments, effective in May, expand the Colorado Springs-based builder’s senior leadership across two key operating divisions and corporate marketing,
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Artificial intelligence is often framed as a labor story. Which jobs will it eliminate? How quickly will it scale? Will entire industries be rewritten overnight? That framing overlooks a more immediate and measurable constraint: cost. Not theoretical cost curves or long-term efficiencies, but the real, present-day economics of compute, capital and land. Right now, AI
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KB Home Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert R. “Rob” Dillard will step down from his role effective May 8, 2026, the Los Angeles-based homebuilder disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29. Dillard’s departure is “not related to any disagreement with KB Home or its
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“Try a lot of new things. Keep what works.” This has been an operational mantra at Clayton for more than a decade, inspired by Chairman and CEO Kevin Clayton’s embrace of the Japanese principle of kaizen – constant, patient, humble, unrelenting improvement. That ethos – more discipline than buzzword, more practice than promise – frames
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The Changing Landscape “This is not a forecast. A forecast is a prediction, the validity of which my ego and I are professionally responsible for. What I offer here is speculation – something that is likely enough to write about but not so likely that my ego hangs in the balance.” – George Friedman “When
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Confronting heavier incentives, price cuts, tepid demand and margin pressure, PulteGroup opened the year with a mix-shift pivot that leans more heavily on build-to-order and active adult sales. Pulte’s Q1 2026 earnings call, held on Thursday, indicates that the nation’s third-largest homebuilder by sales volume made progress on this goal, despite an added layer of
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In its quarterly earnings report a few months ago, M/I Homes business executives said the top-15-ranked homebuilder would maintain a spec-heavy approach – carefully and methodically – to build sales momentum leading up to and into the spring selling season. The latest quarterly financial and operational performance attests to M/I’s embrace of that strategy, as
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Success in business is rarely a solo act. Great careers are often shaped by great mentors, and exceptional teams make for exceptional companies. Allan Merrill, Chairman, President and CEO of Beazer Homes, attests to both truisms. Under Merrill’s leadership, Beazer Homes has become a leader in delivering durable, energy-efficient homes, becoming the first national homebuilder
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