Q+A
Jennifer Barkan on Turning Website Visitors Into Warm Leads and Sales
How supplying salespeople with details about client wants and needs will help your sales staff better target their new-home presentations
Q+A
How Texas Home Builder AHV Communities Is Changing Rental Market Perceptions
AHV Communities has five communities of detached single-family rentals either under development or under construction in Texas
Land Planning
A Traditional Idea Made New: Agrihoods
Access to locally grown, organic food is emerging as the hottest tool for building communities. Welcome to the agrihood
Master Planned Communities
The Reinvention of the Master Planned Community
Cookie-cutter streetscapes are giving way in master planned communities, as the builders that build them are focusing on product diversity, quality of life, and neighborhoods
Thinking Big With a Micro Master Plan
Dwell Development enhances a Seattle infill master planned community with sustainable houses
Builder of the Year
2015 Builder of the Year: Neal Communities
The Great Recession offered some hard lessons for Neal Communities—and a chance to do better than ever before
Exclusive Research: Builders and Bankers
Home builders share their views on credit availability, appraisals, and alternative financing
Planning + Development
Lots, Land, and Opportunity
Post-recession, builders are finding there’s more than one way to the land and lot pipeline
Housing Giants
The Consolidation Convergence
A confluence of factors will swell the ranks of buyers and sellers and fuel even more merger and acquisition activity among home builders for the next couple of years
Innovation
Dimmer Switch Inventor and Lutron Founder Dies at 88
Joel S. Spira was a prodigious innovator who changed the way we illuminate our homes and founded and built Lutron Electronics Co. into a global company