Learning From the Best
Ever since the housing industry started making its very tentative way back after the end of the Great Recession, there’s been a great…
Getting the Message Out
With buyers still relatively scarce, home builders have to be shrewder than ever with their sales and marketing strategies in order to be…
Working toward quality management
In the October issue, we announce the winners of this year’s National Housing Quality Awards: gold award recipients DSLD Homes and EYA, and silver…
An opportunity to do what you do best
Twenty-five years ago, a group of Orange County, Calif., BIA members launched a program to help address the problem of homelessness in their midst…
New products offer a competitive advantage
When home builders are asked which information they deem most critical to the improvement of their businesses, info about new products is always…
Good design for all
We are living in a new era of design. No longer reserved just for the rich or those with artistic sensibilities, good design has become…
Better, not bigger
From 1950 to 2013, the average new home in the United States grew from 983 square feet to 2,673 square feet, a hefty 172-percent increase in size…
Advantage, Housing Giants
Some years ago, a small production builder told me that he didn’t want his company to get too big. Smaller companies were nimble, he explained,…
Rites of spring
Spring is here, regardless of the fact that it is snowing in the D.C. area as I write this at the end of March, and it’s the beginning,…
Solving housing's labor problem
Although recovery for home building has been looking up for a while—with new-home starts in 2013 up 18 percent over 2012 and new-home sales in…
