New Home Insights Podcast
1) Separating Fact from Fear: Institutional Investors, SFR, and the Housing Debate
A note: this conversation was recorded on March 17, 2025, so any references to pending legislation reflect the state of the debate at that time. The debate over institutional ownership of single-fami...Show More
2) Built to Last: How a Japanese Home Builder is Challenging American Construction
Japanese firms have gone big on American housing. Sekisui House has been at the front of this line. The 65-year-old innovative Japanese builder has built a book of homebuilding brands that covers the ...Show More
3) The Year of Realignment: How Builders Should Adapt to Today's Buyer
The housing market pendulum has swung back toward buyers, and understanding what consumers truly want—and will pay for—has never been more critical for builders. In this episode of the New Home Insigh...Show More
4) Smith Douglas Homes and Building Affordably by Design
It seems that affordability has suddenly become the word of the day in politics, but it has been at the top of the agenda in housing for a very long time. There will always be market space at the high...Show More
5) The Avilla Advantage: NexMetro’s Josh Hartmann on Brand, Data, and BTR Strategy
Back in the olden days (after those bikes with the one really big wheel and the one tiny wheel, but before TikTok), when we spoke about the rental market, we meant apartments. Sure, there were plenty ...Show More
The Avilla Advantage: NexMetro’s Josh Hartmann on Brand, Data, and BTR Strategy
1:01:04 | Nov 5th, 2025
6) How David Weekley Homes Balances Private-Company Culture with Public-Company Scale
In the new home world, we often divide builders into public and private. The idea is that the publics are the capital-rich, large-scale firms with a multi-regional presence that are gradually gobbling...Show More
How David Weekley Homes Balances Private-Company Culture with Public-Company Scale
56:46 | Oct 10th, 2025
7) The New Land Financing Playbook: Flexible Capital Meets Cautious Builders
If there are two things that fuel real estate development, they are land and money. Oh, and design. Three things that—wait, the type of housing is huge, too, so product is another fundamental. So ther...Show More
8) The Rental Rebound: Supply, Demand, and Demographic Shifts Driving Recovery
There is no housing market; there are housing markets. We all know that, but all too often forget. Now, as mortgage rates and increasing supply challenge the for-sale sector, rental supply has tapered...Show More
The Rental Rebound: Supply, Demand, and Demographic Shifts Driving Recovery
55:07 | Aug 15th, 2025
9) The Trader Joe's of Homebuilding
If you’re going to be the “Something of Something,” it is not bad to be the Trader Joe’s of homebuilding. You are big but not too big. You’re known for high quality and attentive service, but instead ...Show More
10) Resiliency Under Pressure: Can Housing Weather Choppy Economic Seas?
Tariffs, inflation, interest rates, jobs. All are factors that massively impact the housing market. As head of economic research and forecasting at Renaissance Macro Research, Neil Dutta tracks curren...Show More