Building Market Intelligence

Which trends will matter and which will not? One way we think about this is by looking at the adoption curve below. Which innovations will explode along the green line versus stagnate along the red line? In this podcast episode, …

Sheryl Palmer, the CEO of the sixth-largest home builder in the country, joined our podcast host Dean Wehrli for one of the most insightful interviews I have heard in a while. Sheryl shared her: Unique and very thoughtful view of …

The gaming industry has led the development of 3D video tools that builders and architects are now using to enhance sales, reduce construction costs, and speed up entitlements. These tools are virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). In this …

Bruce Flatt, the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management and the keynote speaker at our upcoming client conference in New York in November, has been very busy spending tens of billions of dollars transforming how Americans will live in the future. …

Despite the fact that the mortgage pays for about 90% of all housing revenue for every participant in the housing industry, we rarely see industry executives at mortgage conferences. So we are bringing the intelligence to you in this podcast. …

Click here to view the video More and more homebuilders are thinking of becoming the landlords of the units they’re building. CNBC’s Diana Olick and John Burns join ‘The Exchange’ to discuss.     If you have any questions, please …

Lisa Parrish, who has led the industry’s design awards judging for the last 30 years (along with her husband and her father), provides a wealth of information in this podcast. At this year’s Gold Nuggets Awards show alone, she reviewed …

In this 12-minute podcast interview, John Burns shares some of our research findings that our building product clients receive regularly. The new normal is 1.4–1.5 million annual US housing starts because of: . Overbuilding. We are still recovering from the massive …

In this podcast, I explain why I believe new home sales and construction have “run out of steam,” at levels many deem to be too low. What’s different this time from prior cycles includes: Banks – Two banking regulation laws …