• The strategic rationale behind QXO’s $17 billion TopBuild acquisition ,Tyler Williams

    The strategic rationale behind QXO’s $17 billion TopBuild acquisition 

    Brad Jacobs’ vaunted, capital treasure-trove-fueled sprint to geographic and marketshare clout, enough to disrupt the nation’s building products and materials supply infrastructure, took another big leap this weekend, with a $17 billion deal to acquire TopBuild, a giant among homebuilder-favored dis

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  • IRVE: The independent brokerage that grew $2B in five years,Jonathan Delozier

    IRVE: The independent brokerage that grew $2B in five years

    While national brands dominate real estate headlines, an independent brokerage based in Pennsylvania’s chocolate capital has quietly posted one of the industry’s strongest five-year growth runs. Iron Valley Real Estate — now rebranding as IVRE — placed No. 10 nationally for five-year volume growth a

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  • How the post-war homebuilders built the modern playbook,Scott Finfer

    How the post-war homebuilders built the modern playbook

    If you want to understand the DNA of the modern American homebuilding industry, you don’t start in a boardroom or on Wall Street. You start in the aftermath of World War II. The men (and they were almost entirely men at the time) who came home from that war didn’t just return with discipline and gri

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