The Builder’s Daily – Cantilever Real Estate

Dream Finders Beazer acquisition sets new industry scale bar

August 13, 2026 by bp56691

Dream Finders Homes’ agreement to acquire Beazer Homes for $33.50 per share brings an end to homebuilding’s most dramatic takeover contest of 2026. What the deal says about what comes next may be even more compelling. The $2.2 billion enterprise-value deal will make Dream Finders the sixth-largest U.S. homebuilder by 2025 revenue. It also caps […]

Are data centers the next constraint on affordable housing supply?

August 6, 2026 by bp56691

[Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a 3-part HousingWire special series on the impacts of data centers in housing. Part 1 is here.] In 1998, when Steve Alloy succeeded his father, Martin, as president of Northern Virginia-based Stanley Martin Homes, buying land wisely was, as it is now, both a point of pride and […]

Squeezed NYC affordable housing properties face reckoning

August 6, 2026 by bp56691

New York City’s regulated affordable housing sector is confronting a worsening financial squeeze, and a reckoning is coming unless solutions emerge, according to a new survey of owners, managers, lenders and other industry participants. The survey by affordable housing nonprofit NYC Housing Partnership found that 62% of respondents said operating costs have risen to unsustainable […]

NYC buildings agency inspects 180 sites, no imminent hazards

August 5, 2026 by bp56691

Last month’s structural near-disaster at the former Pfizer headquarters being converted to apartments set off a sweeping inspection of construction sites across New York City. Inspectors checked at 180 sites in all, according to the Department of Buildings. Inspectors found violations, but “we did not find any hazardous structural issues posing an imminent danger to […]

Collier County private inspections fray sparks Florida turf war

August 4, 2026 by bp56691

Florida’s new push to accelerate homebuilding is hitting up a familiar wall of resistance in the Naples area: local resistance. Instead of fighting over zoning, the battle is about permitting. Private-provider inspectors say Collier County officials have thwarted third-party inspections required under state law. State lawmakers strengthened that law last year. It took effect July […]

M/I Homes doubles down on specs as other builders pull back

August 4, 2026 by bp56691

M/I Homes kept spec homes at 78% of Q2 sales, driving 2,387 closings, up 15%, as gross margin slipped to 22.0%.

Why Builders FirstSource bought ICG; and why Pulte sold it

August 3, 2026 by bp56691

The Innovative Construction Group (ICG) deal frees up capital and eliminates the risk of factory ownership for PulteGroup, while Builders FirstSource will add off-site capacity and installation scale in the Southeast

Dream Finders adds Rick Beckwitt as Beazer bid heats up

August 3, 2026 by bp56691

Dream Finders Homes’ 2026 quest to acquire Beazer Homes has focused mostly on the target’s financial and operational underperformance. Dream Finders has publicly argued that Beazer shareholders deserve the certainty of a cash exit and that a new owner can produce better results from the company’s assets and operating platform. While pursuing Beazer, Dream Finders […]

Green Brick seizes a margin edge as a land and product outlier

July 31, 2026 by bp56691

Green Brick Partners posted a 29.8% Q2 gross margin, up 900 basis points, as the Trophy Signature Homes brand keeps growing.

Meritage Q2 2026 earnings telegraph move-up buyer pivot

July 30, 2026 by bp56691

For much of the past decade, Meritage Homes has stood as one of public homebuilding’s clearest business use cases that thoughtfully designed, efficiently built entry-level homes could unlock homeownership for thousands of households who otherwise might have remained renters. The company’s strategy wasn’t simply to build smaller homes. It reshaped its land acquisition, product design, […]