The 2024 Housing Giants Survey Is Now Open!
Complete the 2024 Housing Giants Survey to see if your company makes the cut in Pro Builder's rankings of the largest home building companies in the country
Builder Rankings by Revenue: 2023 Housing Giants List
Pro Builder's annual Housing Giants rankings list provides a snapshot in time of builders’ perceived opportunities and challenges. These are the top 240 home builders in the nation, ranked by revenue
Holding Back the Headwinds
Stormy market conditions strained the nation’s largest home builders in 2022, and they’re bracing for more uncertainty
Housing, Industrialized: Designing for Off-Site
With a manufacturing mindset and the will to change, designing for factory-built housing production can yield significant savings in time and trouble for home builders
2023 Housing Giants Report and Rankings
Pro Builder's annual Housing Giants report ranks the top U.S. home builders by revenue, closings, and type and location of homes built and this year investigates off-site construction's potential to help home builders resist the headwinds of escalating costs and lack of affordability
2023 Housing Giants Report—Top 50 Single-Family Detached Home Builders
These 50 builders lead the nation in single-family home closings in Pro Builder’s 2023 Housing Giants
Housing Giants Spotlight: David K. Hill: Counter Punch
With quick wits and fast feet, Kimball Hill Homes Chairman David K. Hill survived the crash of housing markets in California, Nevada, Florida and Illinois during 2006. Now he's gathering his energy to deliver a knockout blow in 2007.
Your M&A Transaction's Structure
We have seen a significant shift in structures this year in response to softer housing market conditions. Predictably, the structures now look like those we successfully used throughout the 1990s.
A New Housing Supply and Demand Paradigm
Although the traditional housing market measures still apply, here is an additional supply/demand measure that also needs consideration.
Private Beats Public
Gen. William Lyon, the 83-year-old patriarch of the California housing industry, talks about the differences between having a public and private company and explains why he decided to bring William Lyon Homes back into the private realm.
Value Engineering for a New Market
Few builders take full advantage of value engineering. In most of the home building industry, value engineering's original promises of lower overhead costs and higher product quality remain largely unfulfilled unless collaborative efforts are taken
Markets Sizzle
Despite a slip at the close of our trading session ending October 31, 2006, the stock market was on a tear, with the Dow reaching several record closes during the period.
KB Home Opens First New Orleans Model
The model home opened Sept. 16 at KB's River Garden community is not what you'd expect from a national production builder: an exquisite re-creation of a New Orleans Greek Revival home, a style built in the late 19th century in the historic districts that surround downtown. And like the homes of that day, it doesn't have an attached garage.
Growing Economies Affect Big Markets
Two of the largest housing markets in the country that have not received a lot of attention are examined: the metropolitan areas of Minneapolis and Lakeland, Fla.
Sales
Home Sales: It's Time to Differentiate Your Business
To a customer, a great homebuying experience comes when the sales associate does something that adds value to their visit and puts the customer's shopping agenda ahead of their own selling agenda
Market Downturn Deepens
In many ways, the current housing market slowdown is similar to what happened between 1990 and 1992, although that one had a national economic recession to deepen it. We've avoided that this time — so far.
