Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Inside QXO’s growth plan after $30.2 billion acquisition spree

Less than a month after announcing its pending TopBuild for $17 billion, QXO’s business strategists outlined plans to integrate the company into its platform, drive higher profitability and accelerate organic growth across the combined business. On Monday, QXO released an investor Q&A document that detailed the company’s growth strategy, as the Brad Jacobs-backed firm plans […]

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Retirees counting on home equity may face financial shortfalls

For generations, homeownership has been one of the primary ways Americans built wealth and passed it on to loved ones. Now, financial advisers and housing experts warn that many older homeowners may be counting too heavily on their homes as retirement safety nets as they discover their properties sell for less than expected, according to

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Ivory Prize honors solutions in a higher rate, higher risk backdrop

The affordability crisis in American housing demands more invention, more experimentation and more scalable models to break through the chronic chokeholds of economic, building-technology, and political will. The hard truth is that, against a backdrop of a harsher-than-expected new-home sales season and a higher-for-longer interest-rate environment, the operating environment is making it harder to fund,

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