Leadership
Leadership
A compilation of HousingZone's articles, surveys, ideas, trends, and tips on leadership for residential builders, remodelers, and architects serving the residential construction industry.
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge Announces Forthcoming Resignation
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge has said that she intends to leave office later this month
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Floodproof on a Floodplain
An impressive addition to the IDEA Home series, the NEWLOOK Experience Home is a master class in engineering and creative design, with builder Michael Freiburger out-thinking an exceptionally tricky lot
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Why Start a Custom Building Business?
In this Taking Care of Business segment, expert coach and trainer Scott Beebe joins our host Duane Johns to talk about where custom builders could be getting off on the wrong foot
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3 Questions Answered About Reliable Energy in Home Construction
Energy expert Bryan Cordill makes a case for why and how propane is an answer to growing concerns about reliability and resilience in home construction
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Floor Plans that Shine
Nexers saw a variety of single-family home floor plans developed to explore the response to a particular design element.
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Community Matters
Nexers respond to the concept of a relatively small community built within walking distance of a Main Street.
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Where's a Nexer to Go?
The nexer active-adult market and their attitudes and lifestyles are clearly different from the active adults that came before them.
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Housing's Retail King
Houston-based builder David Weekley is housing's top dog in retailing.
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Retailers Rising
Privately owned GIANT builders, competing with Home Depot and Lowe's in high-profile retail 'design centers,' expand a new advantage of bigness.
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The Outside Talent Trend
Home builders have been defying the economy and thriving to unforeseen levels of top-line and bottom-line results.
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Rural Areas on the Rise in the East
It is not often that a rural area rises from obscurity to become one of the 50 largest housing markets in the country, but that is what is happening on the outskirts of Washington.
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Affluent America
Affluent Americans - those with an average annual household income of $359,000, an average net worth of $2.7 million and average investable assets of $1.5 million - are considerably more positive about the current state of the economy than they were ju...
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Hovnanian 'Gallery' Sets Benchmark
If you're looking for an efficient design center to use as a model for entry into this business, a trip to Hovnanian Enterprises' facility in Edison, N.J., makes sense.