'I believe that the builders have given up too much control over their costs to the framers,' Margaret Whelan says. 'I think what Pulte is doing with their acquisition of ICG is to try to take that back.' | Photo: TimDavidCollection / stock.adobe.com
“There’s often a lot of M&A activity when the [housing] market is peaking,” says Jody Kahn, SVP of research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting. (Illustration: Lisa Haney)