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Outsourced Marketing vs. Staffing for Construction Companies

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Outsourced marketing can be more cost efficient than staffing with multi-discipline skills, lower overhead including salary, benefits, equipment, etc. In contrast, hiring staff for marketing refers to the process of having an employee of your company complete a marketing project, or hiring a new employee for an ongoing marketing function.

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Home Builder M&A Activity: It’s a Seller’s Market

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The Housing Industry's Age of Acquisition. Builder Company Size Matters for Lowering Overhead and Raising Margins. These M&A deals are referred to as “bolt-on” transactions. . Driving more revenue through an existing management team results in lower overhead costs and increased margins. . 31, 2021) .

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Commercial Construction Best-Practices: How to Avoid Scandals

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Be sure to check references of general contractors before entering into a negotiated or competitive bid situation. A properly-sized commercial general contractor is going to maintain a certain amount of overhead. Commercial construction companies need fees to cover their overhead. That’s a given.

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Advice for Home Builders Navigating a Market in Flux

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Housing’s Best Decade Ever In 2020, we published a special report titled “ The Roaring 2020s: Housing’s Best Decade ,” which outlines why this will be the best decade for housing demand in U.S. In addition, the front end of Generation Z (Zoomers) is entering the rental housing market.

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Can We Make Home Building a Little Less ‘Interesting?’

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Pandemic Exposed Deep Housing Issues, Says Harvard Report. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, every analyst, pundit, and prognosticator predicted the housing market would tank, possibly even to 2009 levels during the great crash. offers more detail, so I’ll refer you to that for some answers. Building Lean?

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What are Independent Government Estimates – IGEs?

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This means the estimate should include (1) the direct costs incident to the construction; (2) an allowance for indirect or overhead costs; and (3) an allowance for a reasonable amount of profit. ft = $132,000 house price (see NASA Cost Estimating Website ). Finally, add the plant, equipment, and job overhead costs. 1.4.1.3.2.2.

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Are You Ready for Build to Rent?

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More builders and investors are testing the waters of the single-family build-to-rent sector as consumers seek affordable housing options and to lease rather than buy. And there are several investor groups of varying sizes clamoring to own and/or operate rental housing. Are You Ready for Build to Rent? cbroderick. Sorting It Out.

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