The Builder’s Daily – Page 2 – Cantilever Real Estate

New York City posts notice of new tax levy to pied-a-terre owners

July 27, 2026 by bp56691

Tax attorneys and accountants are about to make bank helping owners of non-primary homes navigate New York City’s pied-à-terre tax notifications, which started landing in mailboxes before the weekend. “If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5 (million), check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs – […]

Lot demand shifts to terms and timing at Forestar, Five Point

July 27, 2026 by bp56691

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

July 24, 2026 by bp56691

Berkshire closed its Taylor Morrison acquisition at $72.50 per share, valuing equity at $6.8B and EV at $8.5B.

NVR is land light by design, Q2 2026 reveals the strategy has limits

July 24, 2026 by bp56691

If you do not build it, they cannot come. If you cannot permit it, you cannot build it, and they cannot come. NVR Q2 2026 results offer a sharp counterpoint to the strategic shifts now underway across public homebuilding. Lennar has boldly reset its enterprise around a more asset-light on-demand land investment structure. D.R. Horton […]

Century Communities leans on operations as strategy in Q2 2026

July 23, 2026 by bp56691

“A rose is a rose is a rose,” according to a 1913 poem Gertrude Stein wrote, called Sacred Emily. In our more earthbound sphere of residential development, investment and construction, a tacit belief is common, but misleading. Peal back a layer or two, and it is clear. A homebuilder is not a homebuilder is not […]

Pulte banks on build-to-order pivot as margins find a floor

July 22, 2026 by bp56691

Pulte’s earnings show BTO share climbing to 45% in Q2 as cycle times hit 100 days, and gross margins improving to 25%.

Michigan’s Whitmer steps up, signs single-stair reform into law

July 22, 2026 by bp56691

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took a big step toward clearing the path for developers to build smaller apartment buildings more affordably. Whitmer signed Michigan’s single-stair legislation into law this week, a green light for developers to build multifamily housing up to six stories more economically, with a single interior exit stairway. Michigan housing advocates say the […]

Will Trump’s new Canadian tariffs add cost risk for builders?

July 21, 2026 by bp56691

On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to impose 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, raising questions about the potential impacts on homebuilders and residential construction costs.

D.R. Horton bets operating rigor will outperform uncertain demand

July 21, 2026 by bp56691

Few homebuilding enterprises look so voraciously at other homebuilding operators’ share of new-home sales in any given arena as present and future opportunity as does D.R. Horton. When those Horton flags flap in the dry summer wind, you can almost hear them as lips smacking in anticipation of a good meal later in the day. […]

The Holiday acquisition is about Daiwa House’s next decade

July 20, 2026 by bp56691

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 […]