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Ivy hosted a fireside chat with Lucas Haldeman, CEO of SmartRent. They provide smart home solutions and property operations for multifamily.

Our inaugural webcast for this year’s Virtual Base Camp focused on the comprehensive outlook of the housing market for 2024-25, spearheaded by Ivy Zelman. Key topics involved our new home outlook, an overview of the existing home market, discussion of multifamily trends, and concluding with our building product outlook. Slide presentation here.

Our Building Products Panel discussed a wide variety of topics. From a residential end market perspective, the outlook for single-family new construction was the most positive given the growth in starts in 2023 and solid year-to-date trends. Though on-the-ground activity in home improvement remains sluggish, there is hope for a pickup as we move into 2H23. We also discussed pricing power, input costs, margins and the M&A environment.  

Our Homebuilding Panel provided a real-time update on sales trends during the early stages of the pivotal spring selling season. Other topics of discussion included the environment surrounding pricing and incentives, cost inflation, price point and market trends and the M&A outlook within the industry.

Our Real Estate Services Panel centered around the recent industry lawsuits and investigations, potential outcomes, and implications for agents and brokerages. Our panel also discussed how the industry is evolving more broadly – from growth in agent teams and higher-split / virtual brokerages, to the race to develop additional ancillary revenue streams.

Our Single-Family Rental Panel highlighted strong near-term demand indicators as seasonality returns to the business. The discussion also included high-level thoughts on the OER component of housing CPI, overall single-family rental fundamentals, the land side of built-for-rent deals, the supply outlook and political risk across the sector.

Our Multi-Family Rental Panel experts provided a wealth of insight into the current and future state of the market. As investors, developers, and operators, they offered deep and timely knowledge on multifamily fundamentals, transaction markets, development starts, and what they expect for the year ahead.

Ryan McKeveny discussed sector thoughts and takeaways from our recent Mortgage and Real Estate Broker Surveys.
 

Adam hosted a call to discuss recent survey takeaways and company-specific views.