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Most builders say they’re on target to complete and close houses, but they're worried about buyers who still haven’t gotten mortgages yet.
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Flush with cash, the builder is on a buying spree for discounted lots.
This April, The Drees Co. should complete the rollout, to all 13 of its divisions, of a program that allows its trade partners and site superintendents to submit field purchase orders (FPOs), with changes to original POs, through a Web-based portal, payment for which is vouchered automatically...
WE ALL KNOW THAT time is money, making it easy to see that time wasted is money lost—and there may be no industry where that point is made more plainly than in home building.
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AS MARKETS TIGHTEN AND builders look for ways to protect their margins, the next few years could prove to be a good time for consultants who can show them how.
It takes Olthof Homes six fewer days to close a house now than it did last June. But the St. John, Ind.–based builder didn't find that time in the sticks and bricks of its homes. It shaved the days from its “soft cycle,” the time between when the buyer signs the contract and the builder breaks...
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It takes Olthof Homes six fewer days to close a house now than it did last June. But the St. John, Ind.–based builder didn't find that time in the sticks and bricks of its homes. It shaved the days from its “soft cycle,” the time between when the buyer signs the contract and the builder breaks...
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It takes Olthof Homes six fewer days to close a house now than it did last June. But the St. John, Ind.–based builder didn't find that time in the sticks and bricks of its homes. It shaved the days from its “soft cycle,” the time between when the buyer signs the contract and the builder breaks...
Fieldstone Homes Utah slashes weeks from its cycle time through strict quality control.
Consider the irony that contractors like to bring up when they talk about the current state of production home building: Builders, they say, are pressuring them to compress their stages of construction. But cycle times keep stretching out, partly because builders' scheduling is unrealistic, given...