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EXCLUSIVE: Konya Hendricks Schuh Has ‘Bigger’ Renovations in Store for ‘Betting on Beloit’ Season 2
# Beloit's Housing Revival Gains Momentum in 'Betting on Beloit' Season 2 A&E's reality television series "Betting on Beloit" returns for a second se…
Park Street Homes expands urban infill homebuilding model
# Park Street Homes Scales Infill Model for Urban Development Park Street Homes is betting that infill development works best when standardization me…
Toughen up: StyleCraft Builders CEO on back-to-basics leadership
# StyleCraft Builders CEO Doug French Champions Operational Discipline as Path to Developer Success Doug French, CEO of StyleCraft Builders, connects…
Watermark Capital Moves Forward With School-to-Resi Conversion in Crown Heights
Watermark Capital Group is advancing a 42-unit residential conversion at 560 Sterling Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, transforming a former Roman Ca…
S3 Capital Lends $45M to Build Williamsburg Apartments on Church Land
David Grunfeld's development company GW Infinity secured $45 million in construction financing from S3 Capital to build a 99-unit apartment complex in…
Coney Island Prep Inks 45K-SF Deal to Relocate to 773 Neptune Avenue
Coney Island Preparatory Public Charter School locked a 45,190-square-foot space at 773 Neptune Avenue in Brooklyn, trading its Gravesend location for…
National Home Corp. targets 18% gross margin with pace focus
# National Home Corp. Targets 18% Gross Margin With Pace Focus National Home Corporation is recalibrating its operational strategy around a specific …
What D.R. Horton’s 2027 budget tells rivals about pricing pressure
D.R. Horton, the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, is projecting 82,000 to 86,000 closings for 2027, a measured forecast that reveals how pricin…
Why construction workers face one of the highest suicide risks
# Construction Workers Face Suicide Rates Four Times the National Average Construction workers die by suicide at rates four times higher than the U.S…
Joy-Anna Duggar Announces Pregnancy as She and Husband Austin Forsyth Build Their Dream Arkansas Farmhouse
# Joy-Anna Duggar Expecting Baby as She and Austin Forsyth Build Arkansas Farmhouse Joy-Anna Duggar, 28, announced her pregnancy on Instagram this we…
ICE raids strain homebuilder labor, cycle times, and bank lines
Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are destabilizing construction labor markets and threatening homebuilder cash flow across the country. …
Homebuilder sellers face tougher prices as M&A appetite slows
The homebuilding M&A market is cooling rapidly. Major builders and private equity firms are stepping back from aggressive acquisition strategies, forc…
HUD sets one-year statute of limitations on fair housing construction violations
# HUD Imposes One-Year Window for Fair Housing Construction Violations The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has established a one-yea…
Bank OZK Lends $76M for Connecticut Office-to-Resi Conversion
Bank OZK has backed a major office-to-residential conversion in Connecticut with a $75.5 million construction loan. The joint venture between Saber-Hi…
Modular housing fails to scale. Will policy reforms alter that?
# Modular Housing Fails to Scale. Will Policy Reforms Alter That? Modular construction remains trapped in the single digits of U.S. housing productio…
Closings per market shows why some builders scale faster
# Closings Per Market Shows Why Some Builders Scale Faster Homebuilders competing for market share increasingly discover that raw geography means not…
CedarSt Lands $80M for San Diego Multifamily Project
CedarSt Companies closed an $80 million construction loan for the Samuel, a 197-unit apartment tower rising in San Diego's North Park neighborhood. Cr…
Masterplanned Florida Development Features 170-Acre Community Farm and Nature Preserve
# Masterplanned Florida Development Features 170-Acre Community Farm and Nature Preserve Newfield, a sprawling masterplanned community in Palm City, …
AI Construction Engineering Startup Spacial Taps NYU Prof Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
Spacial, an AI-powered engineering platform focused on residential construction, has recruited Ravid Shwartz-Ziv as a scientific adviser. Shwartz-Ziv …
Mounting ICE raids leave homebuilding’s frontlines frozen in fear
Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting construction job sites this summer have created a chilling effect across the homebuilding industry…
Champion Homes adds Eagle Materials’ Michael Haack to board
Champion Homes names Eagle Materials CEO Michael Haack to its board of directors as an independent director, bringing deep manufacturing and mergers a…
Launch Expeditionary Learning Signs 77K-SF Lease for High School in Sunset Park
Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School has locked in a 77,000-square-foot space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn for a new high school opening in fall 2…
Builders face a tougher math problem as completed inventory rises
# Builders Face Tougher Math as Completed Inventory Climbs Homebuilders confront a mounting inventory problem that threatens margins and forces a rec…
How will the tariff war with Canada impact real estate?
# How Tariffs on Canadian Goods Will Reshape North American Real Estate Canada's tariff dispute with the United States threatens to disrupt construct…
BHI Lends $50M on SoCal Inland Empire Master-Planned Project
BHI has closed a $50 million construction loan for DO Capital Group's mixed-use development in Jurupa Valley, California. The District at Jurupa Valle…
Why 45 homebuilding markets may not beat six high density ones
# High-Density Markets Outpace Sprawling Competition in Builder Economics Forty-five fragmented homebuilding markets cannot compete with six concentr…
QXO names Honeywell executive Ken West as president and COO
QXO, the newly formed construction materials and services conglomerate, appointed Ken West as president and chief operating officer. West arrives from…
Mamdani Sets Sights on Fixing — Not Replacing — Deteriorating Section of BQE
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration plans to repair rather than replace the deteriorating cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Br…
Kinsmen Property Group Plans to Bring 322 New Homes to 156-166 Bowery
Kinsmen Property Group is planning to construct 322 residential units on a vacant Bowery site in Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood, following demolition…
How ‘Hurricane Resistant’ Babcock Ranch Is Pioneering the Future of Climate-Resilient Living
Babcock Ranch, the master-planned community near Fort Myers in Southwest Florida, is positioning itself as a blueprint for climate-resilient residenti…
Altadena Wildfire Victims Turn to Factory Homes To Speed Rebuilding Process
# Altadena Wildfire Victims Embrace Prefab Homes for Faster Rebuilding The 2025 Eaton Fire devastated Altadena, California, destroying thousands of h…
Mamdani Wants to Add 18K New Homes on Staten Island
# Developer Plans Massive 18,000-Home Expansion on Staten Island Developer Mamdani is pushing a sweeping residential expansion that would bring 18,00…
Ara Hovnanian said it twice, homebuilders really need scale
# Ara Hovnanian's Warning: Scale or Struggle for Homebuilders Ara Hovnanian, CEO of Hovnanian Enterprises, has delivered a blunt message to the homeb…
Michael Troyanovsky of Regency Development Group: 5 Questions
# Regency Development Group Bets Big on Bay Harbor Islands, a Micro-Market Poised for Growth Regency Development Group has identified opportunity whe…
T&E Development Buys West Chelsea Site for $34M From PPHE Hotel Group
T&E Development, a Brooklyn-based builder, acquired a West Chelsea development site for $33.5 million from Amsterdam-based PPHE Hotel Group. The prope…
Indianapolis Bans New Data Centers Until 2028 as Backlash Spreads
Indianapolis has imposed a moratorium on new data center construction through 2028, becoming the latest municipality to restrict these facilities amid…
KB Home’s CEO says scale matters most at the local level
KB Home Chief Executive Rob McGibney outlined an ambitious localized growth strategy centered on becoming a top-three builder in every market the comp…
8 Smart, Postmove Things You Should Do Before You Start Unpacking
Before unpacking boxes, new homeowners should tackle eight critical tasks that protect their investment and establish proper systems for occupancy. F…
OCVibe’s Scott Frick On Building a $5B District Around Anaheim’s Honda Center
OCVibe, a $5 billion mixed-use development, will transform 100 acres of surface parking surrounding Anaheim's Honda Center into a dense urban district…
Remodeling Spending Surges in Michigan and Continues To Outpace Construction Nationwide
Homeowners across Michigan are pouring money into renovations instead of selling and relocating, reversing the typical pattern where high mortgage rat…
Big Bend Wall Paused, but Ranchers Still Face Looming Threat to Land: ‘We Stand to Lose Too Much’
The Trump administration halted construction on a controversial border wall project in Big Bend National Park, Texas, following sustained homeowner op…
Builder sentiment runs soft as affordability strain subdues orders
U.S. homebuilders face mounting headwinds as buyer demand softens across most segments. Builder sentiment remains weak despite stabilizing mortgage ra…
Keller Williams launches KW Modular agent community
Keller Williams has launched KW Modular, a new agent community designed to connect real estate professionals with homebuilders across North America. T…
Aircraft Finance Firm Buys Florida HQ Complex For $118M
A publicly traded aircraft finance company has acquired Cocomar Business Park, a three-building, 375,000-square-foot complex under construction in Coc…
Backyard Housing Boom: L.A. Sees Record Level of ADU Construction After Easing Restrictions
Los Angeles hit a record for accessory dwelling unit (ADU) construction this year, driven by streamlined regulations that removed parking requirements…
Cavco, Champion eye long-term growth from chassis removal
Manufactured housing producers Cavco Industries and Champion deliver optimistic signals on how chassis removal could reshape their sector. Both compan…
Skanska JV Lands $2.43B Contract for Light Rail Project in L.A.
# Skanska JV Wins $2.43B Light Rail Contract for Los Angeles County Skanska and Stacy Witbeck secured a major transit infrastructure contract from th…
S3 Capital Lends $35M for Miami-Dade County Apartments
# S3 Capital Backs Final Phase of Miami-Dade Apartment Build S3 Capital has committed $35 million in construction financing to complete Casa Princeto…
LGI Homes is trying to remove the reasons buyers keep waiting
LGI Homes addresses buyer hesitation by tackling the root causes of delay in today's uncertain new-home market. The Texas-based builder recognizes tha…