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Sales + Marketing

How to Convince Customers You're the Builder They Need

To attract buyers and let them know you're The One, leverage these tools

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Structural

5 Ways OSB Has Evolved—and What It Means for Builders

OSB has changed a lot since it was introduced to the mass market more than 40 years ago. Here’s what you need to know to specify the right panels.

Modular Homes

How Can Home Builders Tackle Inventory Issues?

Shifts in thinking are welcome, but they're long overdue—and not aggressive enough

New-Home Marketing

Can Homes Age With Us?

Finding out whether our homes can remain livable means getting personal and asking what kind of places we’d like to grow old in

Financials

Wanted: Workable Housing Solutions

In San Francisco and Atlanta, viable alternatives include a reimagining of the once-common boarding house

PadSplit offers a viable alternative and the possibility of savings

Home Technology

Being Smart About Smart Homes

Regardless of how slowly smart home technology is taking hold, its eventual acceptance is inevitable

Design

Next Steps for Disaster Resilience and Rebuilding

The dream for disaster recovery is kit homes that can be assembled by two mid-level trades

Business Management

How to Find and Retain Skilled Labor

The construction industry has had, and will continue to have, its share of ups and downs and fresh challenges. Knowing how to find and motivate excellent employees can help building companies maintain stability

Timber Framing

Making the Case for Framing Sheets

There's a document missing from your workflow, and it's costing you more than you think

Builders should use framing sheets for home building efficiency

Building Operations

How Do We Build New Homes Faster?

Labor shortages threaten workflow in many markets. Innovation is essential

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Leadership

In Remembrance of Bill Pulte, a Housing Giant

A tribute to the home building innovator who built his first house in 1951 and never looked back

Home builder Bill Pulte, founder of Pulte Homes

New-Home Marketing

Beginners and Boomers: Fact and Fiction for Home Builders

Clear commonalities and definite differences exist between the groups that bookend the buyer spectrum

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New-Home Sales

How Will Wall Street Affect Home Building?

It's more likely that the stock market will adversely affect the housing market than the reverse

Building Operations

Coming to a Job Site Near You: Drones

Next time you hear a buzzing sound on a job site, it may not be a power tool. It may be a drone.

Business Management

Can Technology Solve the Labor Shortage?

When it comes to efficiencies, even the most minute savings add up over time

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Awards

Big Emotion at the 2018 Nationals

Leveraging the intense feelings surrounding the most highly charged purchase that most of us will ever make

Sales

4 Common Website Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Think responsive, fast, good-looking, and just inquisitive enough

Business Management

It's Time to Coach and Mentor Future Leaders

More than half of all business owners will be retiring in the next decade. Are you grooming a successor?

Opinion

On Innovation and Disruption

The state of modular home building, what buyers crave most, HVAC best practices, our first foray into augmented reality, and more

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Business Management

Skilled Labor Is Our Responsibility

A combined effort between key players in the construction industry has created the Skilled Labor Fund to address the labor shortage

The Skilled Labor Fund aims to address the shortage of labor in the construction industry

New-Home Sales

A Look Ahead at 2018, By the Numbers

Entry-level and first-time buyers may account for 43 percent of the market by the end of 2018

Sales + Marketing

It's Time to Get Creative When Marketing New Homes

Combining proven methods with new strategies will help set you apart

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December

As Mortgage Rates Rise, Buyers Lose Purchasing Power

Renters Are Choosing Single-Family Homes for These Features