A Future in the Making by Andy Bates It is no secret that the US housing market has seen significant appreciations in recent years, and many are struggling to find even entry level homes in today’s market. When considering this in combination with a well-known lack of inventory, it is no surprise that first-time home buyers are struggling to find their first home. This demographic is comprised of many young
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Building the Next Generation of Skilled Trades Professionals By Jenna Arca As the skilled trades population becomes increasingly diverse, ensuring accessibility to trades training and resources is critical to bridging the labor gap between the number of skilled trade workers and the unprecedented demand for trade jobs. As an example, 94% of The Home Depot’s Pro customers struggle to find skilled workers. Across the U.S., the need for highly skilled
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Investors are Flocking to BTRs as a High Performing Asset By Greg Godderidge Once occupying a small niche in the market, Build-to-rent (BTR) has emerged as the dominant acquisition model of the single-family rental (SFR) sector. Fueled by the persistent lack of existing homes for sale and growing demand for single-family rentals, BTR came into its own in 2023. The model attracted the attention of large institutional investors who recognize
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Is It Necessary? Will It Help? By Paul Gozzo New home construction is not broken. In fact, just the opposite; construction has evolved well over the last ten plus years. Builders of all sizes and specialties who build affordable houses all the way up to large custom homes, have adopted many new technologies into their processes. The majority of those innovations have taken place on the materials side of the
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The Market is Still Fundamentally Strong By Adam Stern For context, my firm provides Advisory and Investment Sales Services for regional builders looking to break into or expand in the Build-For-Rent segment, and showing them how to take residential projects and fit them into the Build-For-Rent mold in order to sell their neighborhoods as rental communities to long term buy-and-hold operators. Let’s start with a view of where things just were and
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