Financials Wanted: Workable Housing Solutions In San Francisco and Atlanta, viable alternatives include a reimagining of the once-common boarding house
Business Management 2018 Housing Giants: Strategic Cost Cutting Housing Giants seek economies of scale, operational efficiencies, and downsized designs in an effort to make homes more affordable
Market Data + Trends Could Other Big Home Builders Be Taken Over This Year? An annual report from the Royal Bank of Canada says some home builders may be ripe for takeover. Beazer Homes, Hovnanian Enterprises, Taylor...
Financials Recession Comeback Slowest in Suburbs While housing prices in both urban and rural areas have surpassed their pre-recession levels, suburban prices remain below their 2006 high. ...
Financials ‘This is Not a Bubble’: How Stocks Affect the Housing Market Despite a recent dip in the stock market, changes are not likely to aggravate another housing bubble. In fact, they may signify a slowdown...
Financials Mortgage Rates Surge, Hurting Homebuyers CNBC reports that a jump in U.S. bond yields is expected to drive mortgage rates as high as 4.5 percent, the highest rate since 2014. The...
Business Management The VPO Cure: Step-by-Step Guide to Reduce Waste and Boost Your Bottom Line Any work commissioned after the start of a home spells waste, and that waste is crippling. Here’s the fix
Business Management Home Builders' Variance Measurement Quagmire—the Nightmare Continues Managers use some remarkably creative ways to avoid reporting variance. That’s the first mistake
Business Management Welcome to a Home Builder's VPO Nightmare Each variance purchase order is a failure, for everyone. It’s lose, lose, lose—for the builder, the supplier or trade, and for the customer
