Green Brick seizes a margin edge as a land and product outlier
Green Brick Partners posted a 29.8% Q2 gross margin, up 900 basis points, as the Trophy Signature Homes brand keeps growing.
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Lot demand shifts to terms and timing at Forestar, Five Point
In 2024 and early 2025, homebuilders large, medium and small were smitten with the strategic notion of “land light.” In 2026, and for the near future, most everybody is more preoccupied, and rightly so, with “land right.” Many of the U.S.’s most prolific new-construction markets undergoing some form of “work-out” to winnow down aging spec […]
Berkshire completes Taylor Morrison deal valued at $8.5B enterprise value
Berkshire closed its Taylor Morrison acquisition at $72.50 per share, valuing equity at $6.8B and EV at $8.5B.
The Holiday acquisition is about Daiwa House’s next decade
The long game Was never about one Acquisition Viewed through a sharply narrowed lens of a single transaction, Holiday Builders adds another respected, cycle-tested, deeply regionally invested homebuilder to Stanley Martin Homes‘ growing portfolio. However, through the panoramic landscape lens of Daiwa House‘s long-term strategy, however, the acquisition takes on a considerably more significant mission […]
How ROAD aims to boost housing supply and cut red tape
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act includes provisions to streamline NEPA reviews, expand factory-built housing and incentivize local pro-supply reforms. Builders say federal action helps, but local zoning and permitting remain the main constraint on new housing.
Art Falcone on launching AmeriCraft Homes and building hospitality-driven communities
Art Falcone — a prominent real estate developer with more than 40 years of experience in developing single-family, multifamily, hospitality, mixed-use and retail properties — recently launched a new homebuilding venture, AmeriCraft Homes.
At $32, Dream Finders-Beazer risk is now double-jeopardy
[Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part article in the aftermath of filings this week from Dream Finders Homes and Beazer Homes, as Dream Finders pursues Beazer as an acquisition target. Here’s the link to Part 1]. The surface question in the Dream Finders Homes–Beazer Homes takeover contest is the one everybody is […]
The $32 Beazer bid is in, now the fight is over standstill terms
A little more than a month into a hostile homebuilder takeover saga that has not quite reached midsummer, Dream Finders Homes’ pursuit of Beazer Homes is beginning to resemble a Shakespearean tale of unrequited love. The ardent suitor has returned again. And again. The latest offering is richer: $32 per share in cash, up 24% […]
$95M funding, USLBM deal back Higharc AI push in homebuilding
Artificial intelligence has reached homebuilding’s proving ground. Not the proving ground for a demo or a pitch deck, nor the conference-stage jumbo-screen promise that technology will transform an industry whose complexity has humbled generations of would-be transformers. It’s the real sniff test. AI’s proving ground has become the homebuilding business itself. It is land acquired […]
Government-backed modular housing trend arrives in Cleveland
Cleveland tapped $2.56M in Ohio historic preservation tax credits to redevelop a 1901 building into an MMY modular housing factory.”,