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Industry Insights
Custom Home Builder Profit Margin: 2026 Benchmarks
What is a normal custom home builder profit margin? NAHB benchmark data on gross and net margins, where the money goes, and how to protect yours.
Ressio Staff·Oct 1, 2026
Your Custom Home Building Process Worked at Two Jobs. Now You're Running Five.
The custom home building process, phase by phase, and the five points where it breaks once a second PM is running the job. Plus the checkpoints that hold.
Ressio Staff·Sep 25, 2026
How to scale a construction business when skilled labor is your actual constraint
Maximize your throughput with the team you already have by tackling the four most common bottlenecks for residential building companies.
Mitchell Kasselman·Sep 16, 2026How-To Guides
Case Studies
Building Strong Teams: How Builders Can Hire With Confidence
JL Talent Solutions helps builders hire for behavior and fit with assessments, scorecards, and structured interviews to cut mis-hires and boost retention.
Ressio Staff·Oct 14, 2025
Installing the Financial Operating System for Modern Builders
Discover how Apparatus and Ressio help builders gain clarity, control, and confidence by building financial systems tailored for construction businesses.
Ressio Staff·Sep 26, 2025Recent
Construction Time Tracking: How Builders Capture Labor Hours That Actually Reach the Job Cost
Most builders capture hours. Far fewer capture them against the right job and cost code, which is the difference between payroll data and usable labor cost.
Ressio Staff
How AI is Transforming the Future of Home Building and Remodeling
Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on home builders and remodelers
Mitchell Kasselman
Construction Change Orders: A Builder's Guide to Pricing, Approving, and Getting Paid
A change order documents work added to or removed from the original contract scope, with the resulting price and schedule change. Here is what belongs on the form, the five-step approval process, and the mistakes that cost custom builders their margin.
Ressio Staff·Oct 9, 2026One Connected System.
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