New Home Insights Podcast

Steve Benson, CEO of Essential Housing, provides land banking services for builders. The podcast explores the basics and benefits of land banking, the underwriting process for selling lots to builders, evaluating risks in real estate deals, the importance of builder partners and trust, strategic versus tactical approach to land banking, understanding entitlement risk in real estate projects, and predictions for the current market and the impact of the housing recession and COVID-19.

You would not go to a second website to pay for your Amazon order, so why should you have to deal with multiple groups when purchasing a home? That is what inspired Court Cunningham to start Orchard. Orchard is providing next-level service by integrating almost the entire home buying process onto one platform. Learn how Orchard is innovating as an “iBroker” (a term cleverly coined by our host Dean Wehrli) by checking out this episode.

If there used to be a hot tub full of cash for build-for-rent (BFR) deals, now there is an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Demand for BFR development is at an all-time high. BFR developers can usually outbid their competitors for land. Mike Moser, CEO of Starwood Land Advisors, explains to us how his team strategically focuses their investment efforts in the BFR and equally competitive general residential development world.

The last 18 months or so have been the proverbial roller coaster for the real estate industry. COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the nation but unlocked tremendous latent demand, changed where and how people lived, and left dramatically rising prices in its wake. Jeff Adler, Vice President of Yardi Matrix, has a measure of the pulse of just about all real estate sectors (retail, office, self-storage, but especially apartments and build-for-rent).

Atticus LeBlanc joins our latest podcast to discuss how PadSplit acts as a creative solution to the affordable housing shortage.

Today’s market trends move as fast as Allyson Felix in the Tokyo Olympics (well, maybe almost as fast). Thankfully, Jody Kahn, our Senior Vice President, surveys local home builders overseeing 15%–20% of national new home sales every month to keep a close eye on these fast-moving trends.

In this podcast we speak with Mike Forsum, President and COO of Landsea Homes. We talk about the highs and lows of markets, what housing product are the toughest to execute, how they shifted strategies to meet new market needs, and what the future might hold. Additionally, Landsea went public recently, and Mike gives us an inside look at the perils and promise of that decision.

We speak with Tony Avila, Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Encore Capital Management, about today’s M&A climate and what it takes to make a deal go smoothly.

We chat with Jamie Siminoff, inventor of Ring, and Eric Feder, Managing General Partner of LENx (Lennar’s innovation and venture capital investing arm), about the benefits of integrating technology in the home.

Truly the jack of all trades, Barry Habib has done everything from producing a Broadway show to acting, singing, and being one of the brightest minds in real estate—particularly when it comes to the mortgage sector. In this podcast, Barry Habib of MBS Highway explains the inner workings of the mortgage market