PB September 2014

Builders weigh in on their love-hate relationship with the banking industry, and the non-traditional sources of capital they are using. 

Ryan Larsen discusses launching Porchlight Homes in Phoenix and competing with larger builders.

Creating attractive, marketable homes for lots with tight setbacks is a matter of give and take among the builder, the architect, the neighbors, and city zoning and planning authorities.

Builders must embrace mobile technology and show software developers a need for industry-specific business apps.

Industry consultant Scott Sedam shares what he has learned over the years from working with more than 200 builders.

In some markets, banks are becoming more aggressive with construction loans and are even financing land development

Miller and Smith celebrates 50 years of building homes in the Washington, D.C., suburbs.

Innovative solutions for high-R walls are critical for achieving zero-energy-ready homes

To maintain current profitability, builders must work on their cost of sales and especially direct construction costs to improve gross profits.

Tom Lewis of T.W. Lewis Company becomes the first inductee into the National Housing Quality Hall of Fame.