• Real-REMAX deal: complementary models or culture clash?,Brooklee Han, Tracey Velt

    Real-REMAX deal: complementary models or culture clash?

    “Where’s the upside here?” That’s the question Steve Murray, the co-founder of RealTrends Consulting, keeps coming back to as the industry digests The Real Brokerage’s acquisition of REMAX — and it’s the same question investors appeared to answer swiftly. On the day of the announcement, Real’s stock

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  • The Gathering takeaway: how Olivia Clarke Homes wins in DFW,John McManus

    The Gathering takeaway: how Olivia Clarke Homes wins in DFW

    The story of American homebuilding is mostly one of bootstrapped businesses. They mostly get forged in hard circumstances, with a single, almost instantaneous reckoning that there are no shortcuts to success … or even to being around in five years, fighting to achieve it. It requires leaders willing

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  • Green Brick leverages industry-leading margins to drive optionality,Tyler Williams

    Green Brick leverages industry-leading margins to drive optionality

    In an all-important way, Green Brick Partners operates as an anomaly. The Texas-based homebuilder continues to deliver the highest gross profit margin among public homebuilding peers, and plans to use this margin cushion to its advantage over the quarters ahead. While public homebuilding peers strug

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