The Builder’s Daily

Scarcity buoyed March new home sales; builder pressures mount

New home sales at the onset of the spring selling season were higher than a year ago, but homebuilders continued to ramp up incentives and price discounts to maintain sales activity. As a result, new home prices fell to their lowest point in nearly five years during March.  There were countless headlines over the past […]

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Inside the 2026 housing market outlook: Key trends shaping homebuilders, capital and strategy

The 2026 housing market is entering a new phase, shaped less by structural constraints and more by external forces influencing buyer confidence. At this year’s annual Forum for Housing Executives, hosted by Builder Advisor Group and Avila Real Estate Capital, more than 80 C-level leaders gathered to assess the housing market trends for 2026 and

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The Gathering takeaway: how Olivia Clarke Homes wins in DFW

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 closes on its $221M United Homes acquisition

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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View Homes: new division presidents in Colorado and San Antonio

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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Data center hyper growth is colliding with housing development

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 CFO Robert Dillard to resign this month

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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North Carolina Let Them Build Act targets environmental reviews

As North Carolina House Democrats take another swing at sweeping housing reform, a Democratic senator is seeking to streamline environmental reviews to accelerate construction. Sen. Woodson Bradley filed the “Let Them Build Act” on Thursday afternoon, days after House colleagues filed a bill titled “Relieving Housing Bottlenecks” to address the state’s affordable housing crisis. For

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With the Hill in limbo on ROAD Act, the toll on BTR projects climbs

Last week, 76 members of Congress, specifically the Real Estate Caucus and the Build America Caucus, signed a bipartisan letter “expressing serious concerns” over section 901 of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. The letter, signed by 38 democrats and 38 republicans, urged House leadership to remove or substantially alter the highly contentious Section

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Clayton CrossMod single-section missing middle housing launches

“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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