Episodes

  • Episode 99: Data-Driven Investment Strategies: Don Mullen on SFR, Tech, and Housing’s Future

    Episode 99: Data-Driven Investment Strategies: Don Mullen on SFR, Tech, and Housing’s Future
    Sep 27 2024
    Diverse, tech-savvy, innovative—all fair when describing Pretium, one of the biggest real estate investment firms you may have heard of. Pretium has helped change how we invest in real estate. Pretium is impacting single-family rental (SFR), build-to-rent (BTR), fix and flip, mortgage originations, and even homebuilding through a menu of investment choices. Pretium Founder and CEO Don Mullen has been the primary driver behind Pretium’s rapid growth. Don recently joined our CEO, John Burns, at our Rental Communities Summit, and our latest New Home Insights Podcast episode is the result.
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    30 mins
  • Episode 98: Inside the Deal: M&A Insights with Rich Moriarty of Vestra Advisors

    Episode 98: Inside the Deal: M&A Insights with Rich Moriarty of Vestra Advisors
    Sep 6 2024
    Big builders seem to be getting bigger every year. Growth might have some drawbacks, but for the most part, it makes a builder strong. Think operational efficiency, expanding your pipeline, access to capital, depth of skills, and expertise. You can grow organically, but you can grow faster through a smart merger or acquisition. That’s where Rich Moriarty comes in. Rich has been in investment banking for 35 years, much of that at financial behemoth Citibank. He co-founded Vestra Advisors last year and hasn’t skipped a beat, quickly becoming a key player in the homebuilder public finance and mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) space. Join us for the latest episode of the New Home Insights podcast, where Rich walks us through the nuts and bolts of M&A, the strategy, the market conditions, the outlook, and more.
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    44 mins
  • Episode 97: Market Trends in Kitchen and Bath: A Deep Dive with NKBA’s Bill Darcy

    Episode 97: Market Trends in Kitchen and Bath: A Deep Dive with NKBA’s Bill Darcy
    Aug 16 2024
    What will your kitchen and bathroom look like a year from now, two years from now, five years from now? That’s what Bill Darcy, Global President and CEO of the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), thinks about every day. This perspective provides Bill with a look under the hood of this sector, and he shares what he sees on this episode of The New Home Insights podcast. Please note that we recorded this podcast prior to the recently released 2Q24 KBMI report, in which K&B industry pros were slightly less bullish on 2024 growth. In the second quarter, the KBMI Index shifted down to 54 as firms lowered their expectations for near-term revenue growth.
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    51 mins
  • Episode 96: Leading Through Innovation: How Fortune Brands is Shaping the Future of Home

    Episode 96: Leading Through Innovation: How Fortune Brands is Shaping the Future of Home
    Jul 26 2024
    One of the hardest things for a successful company is to stop doing what made it successful and start doing something that will stretch its success into the future. It is a risk and a cost, but it can be an investment if done right. So when Fortune Brands Innovations shed an iconic cabinetry brand, CEO Nick Fink had some anxious moments. But that decision and the ensuing journey have allowed Fortune Brands to expand their product offerings, providing a more diversified imprint on our homes. They made a strategic decision to focus on what they did best and play in the parts of the home market that they believed had the best prospects. In this episode of The New Home Insights podcast, Nick joined me to talk about that evolution and his journey and share insights about Fortune Brands’ strategies, goals, values, and core commitment to technology and data.
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    53 mins
  • Episode 95: Building Success: Doug Bauer and the Growth of Tri Pointe Homes

    Episode 95: Building Success: Doug Bauer and the Growth of Tri Pointe Homes
    Jun 21 2024
    To grow or not to grow is often the question for a homebuilder. For Doug Bauer, CEO and co-founder of Tri Pointe Homes, the answer has always been “grow.” In 2009, when Doug Bauer and his partners started Tri Pointe, growth was a huge risk. But they pulled it off, and now Tri Pointe Homes is one of the top public homebuilders in the nation with a footprint across the country. On this episode of the New Home Insights podcast, Doug Bauer shares some highlights of Tri Pointe’s growth over the years.
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    42 mins
  • Episode 94: Hillwood Communities and the Art and Science of Placemaking

    Episode 94: Hillwood Communities and the Art and Science of Placemaking
    May 31 2024
    If you have anything to do with the housing market in Texas, you have heard of Hillwood Communities. If you are from elsewhere in the country and have not heard of Hillwood, here’s your chance. All across the great state of Texas, Hillwood is building some of the best-designed and most successful master-planned communities in the US. They have achieved this with expert placemaking, which Hillwood defines this way: "We create places where relationships with neighbors evolve into friendships and those friendships begin to feel like family." On this episode of the New Home Insights podcast, our guest is Fred Balda, the president of Hillwood Communities. Fred has guided Hillwood Communities for over three decades and he shares his approach, outlook, and take on all things master plan. He and Hillwood have a track record that says you should listen.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 93: Shifting Foundations: A Deep Dive into Demographics and Housing

    Episode 93: Shifting Foundations: A Deep Dive into Demographics and Housing
    May 10 2024
    Demographics impact housing in a few massive foundational ways and a thousand small ways. Price, product, place—demographics help define them. On this episode of the New Home Insights Podcast, our guests are Chris Porter and Eric Finnigan, two leaders at John Burns Research and Consulting who live and breathe demographics and what they mean for housing.
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    44 mins
  • Episode 92: Building Up: Walton Global's Strategic Land Insights

    Episode 92: Building Up: Walton Global's Strategic Land Insights
    Apr 11 2024
    This episode of the New Home Insights Podcast delves into the intricacies of land banking, a crucial component of the real estate industry, with insights from Kate Kaminski, the COO of Walton Global. Kate shares her journey from the home building industry to her pivotal role at Walton, a company that has significantly influenced land banking in North America since its shift from Canada to the US in 2006. Walton Global, a family-owned enterprise for over 45 years, specializes in land asset and investment management, focusing on raising capital globally to invest in various land assets, primarily in the southern United States.
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    51 mins