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How Just-in-Time Land Deals Help Manage Cash Flow

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But when it comes to land inventory strategies, most builders seem reluctant to rely on a “just-in-time” model to acquire land as needed for immediate construction. Certainly, publicly traded home builders have pivoted to land-light business models that allow them to forgo owning years’ worth of land inventory. In the Real World.

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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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In the last quarter of 2019, he looked at his spec home inventory and decided he needed to move some units. If you have many homes in inventory, don’t wait until your competitors drop their prices, making your products uncompetitive. If the market did roll over, he might have to lay people off, but would not be stuck with land debt.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Steadfast And Strong In The Wake Of Superstorm Sandy

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A $300- million allocation will fund grants that can be used for purposes including rehabilitation, new construction, equipment, inventory, mitigation, refinancing and working capital. The ads will continue to run throughout the year in top metro areas based on alignment with New Jersey’s target industry sectors. Breezy Point, NY.

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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

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Lower gas prices are creating more discretionary income to save, pay down debt and spend on travel, eating out and personal services. The new Lakeside Shops retail center at the Landing was added to the inventory in the fourth quarter of 2015, and the tornado-damaged Branson Mall also has been put back on the market. percent to 13.06

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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If those trends continued, Clark reckoned housing affordability in the Salt Lake metro area would follow the same path as California’s Silicon Valley, potentially creating an estimated shortage of 50,845 housing units in the Salt Lake market by 2044, according to a 2018 study by the University of Utah’s Kem C. “One

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Inventory is exempt from property tax. million loan participation program fostering business expansion and job creation in Arizona by providing debt financing for small businesses (in collaboration with private finance partners). Metro: Capital investment of at least $5 million and at least 25 new jobs. TAX INCENTIVES.

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COVER STORY: Shovel Ready Sites Are Growing From The Ground Up

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“What we have found is that many of the communities have most of the information required for the certification already assembled and just need to have it put together in a useable and easily accessible format,” said Jim Gromberg, Metro Area Business Development Representative for the Minnesota DEED. OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN INDIANA.

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