Market outlook · Featured guest

2026 Growth Strategies for Home Builders: Plan, Prioritize, Deliver

The housing market is entering a year of tighter margins and slower approvals, where every dollar and day count. To stay ahead, builders and developers need sharper visibility, from dirt balance to delivery.

Runtime: — minutes
Built for: Land & construction leaders

What you'll walk away with

Feasibility

Feasibility with confidence.

Use LiDAR and topos to validate grading, utilities, and yield potential early in acquisition.

Capital

Smarter capital allocation.

Align dirt balance, phasing, and budgets across your portfolio to avoid surprises.

Schedule

Schedule guardrails.

Track site progress weekly and verify work quality to stay ahead of rework.

Alignment

Builder-developer alignment.

Keep stakeholders in sync from due diligence to delivery.

Hosted by

John McManus

Featured guest

Vice President — Homebuilding, HW Media · Publisher, The Builder's Daily

Ivan Lvov

TraceAir

CEO

Katie Larrimore

TraceAir

Lifecycle Marketing Manager

Questions people ask before watching

Do I have to fill out a form to watch?

No. The recording plays on this page with no gate. There's an optional ask under the player for the slides, and it can be dismissed.

Is this a market talk or a product session?

Mostly market and planning strategy. The featured guest carries the outlook; TraceAir maps it to what land and construction teams can act on.

Who is this built for?

VPs of Land Development, construction leaders, and the finance partners who allocate capital across a portfolio.

Does any of it apply to a single-project team?

Yes, though the capital allocation section assumes more than one project in flight.

Can I share this with my exec team?

Please. The URL is permanent and the page won't move or expire.

I'd rather just talk to someone.

Reasonable. Book 20 minutes and bring one project you're phasing; we'll run this against your own numbers.

The whole session, as text

The session explores the 2026 growth strategies leading land and construction teams are already using to move faster, spend smarter, and protect profitability across every phase of the project lifecycle.

John McManus brings the market view — where approvals, absorption, and margin pressure are heading — and TraceAir CEO Ivan Lvov maps that against what land and construction teams can control: feasibility, capital allocation, schedule, and stakeholder alignment.

The through-line is visibility. Tighter margins do not create new levers; they raise the cost of pulling the wrong one late.