Policy

What Is Affordable? Do Market Rate Builders Need To Know?

Monthly payment power equates to how builders measure their ability to build and deliver affordably. Interest rates are the biggest stressor to this benchmark in the near future.

Land

Ground Rule Trouble: Built-To-Rent Land Rush Stresses Publics

Clashing land valuation models -- IRR vs. gross and net yield REIT valuations -- have upped the antes, raised the risks, and elevated the stakes in the residential land acquisition landscape.

Capital

C Sweetened: Here's What Public Homebuilding Chiefs Got Paid in 2020 ... And Why

Homebuilding's top executives earned an average of $11.7 million in 2020 compensation. Here's the backstory on how public company directors awarded these 29 execs $285 million in the year that was.

Building Tech & Products

The Future Is Now: Lead, Don't Wallow

The capability challenge, our Dream Team posits, can only be solved through the embrace of data, technology, process and a pivot to collaboration in a dog-eat-dog culture.