John Mcmanus
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AI risk remains low for most construction jobs, NAHB finds (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping knowledge work across the economy, but most construction jobs face relatively low near-term job-loss exposure, according to a new analysis from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data on AI exposure and employment projections, NAHB found that 45 of 47 selected construction-related occupations — about 96% — fall into the BLS categories of “low” or “moderate” relative exposure to AI. Only construction m
Ivy Zelman warns of overbuilding as household growth slows (opens the original)
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At a housing conference in Aspen in 2005, I heard Ivy Zelman say something I have never forgotten: “The models are broken.” She was looking past the reassuring assumptions embedded in housing finance and homebuilders’ land pipelines to the risks building beneath them. Within a few years, many of those assumptions succumbed to one or more of the unappreciated risks. Last week, at Zelman’s 19th annual housing conference in Boston, I heard a different warning. This time, her concern wasn’t a repeat
Signature Homes thinks 100-day builds can win in a smaller market (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: This installment of Built for This is part of HousingWire’s ongoing examination of homebuilding leaders and companies improving their businesses in a housing market that offers little outside help. Signature Homes chairman Dwight Sandlin will join the CEO Power Panel at the HousingWire Homebuilder Summit, Oct. 19–21 in Dallas. Dwight Sandlin does not expect the housing market to solve the problems confronting homebuilders anytime soon. The chairman and co-founder of Signature Home
Can a $40M homebuilder build his own operating system with AI? (opens the original)
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As production homebuilding has become a more professional, scalable business over the past four or five decades, some of its most important advances have come from operators who refused to accept the way things were being done as the only possible way. William Leavitt, Ira Jacobs and David Fox, Ray Ellison, Ed Ryan, Bill Pulte, Gene Fisher & Arnold Rosen, Leonard Miller, Eli Broad and Don Kaufman, Tom Bradbury, to name just a few. These legends studied the house as a product, the jobsite as a pr
Taylor Morrison CEO says trust can scale in a stress-test market (opens the original)
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Fewer buyers are coming through the door. More builders are cutting prices to get them there. More are offering incentives once they arrive. And increasingly, neither appears sufficient to make them buy. That is the operating reality homebuilders carry into the final stretch of 2026. Builder confidence has fallen to a one-year low. Prospective-buyer traffic is still deeply depressed. Forward-looking single-family permits slipped again in August. And higher financing costs have further complicate
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