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Lennar Corp., ready to build homes to rent

By Mike Wheatley | June 30, 2014

Lennar Corp., one of the nation’s largest home builders, is “considering” a move to build homes intended to rent if first-time home buyers continue to be reluctant, said Stuart Miller, the builder’s chief executive, in a quarterly conference call Thursday.

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Miller says he doesn’t expect mortgage qualification standards to ease enough anytime soon for more first-time home buyers to come off the sidelines. As such, he says Lennar is eyeing the home rental market as a way to ramp up business until they do. The builder is studying whether it should begin to build single-family homes to rent, in addition to the apartments it already builds.

If first-timers remain unable to buy, then “single family development for rent might become a part of our portfolio going forward,” Miller told investors during the call.

Only a few builders have constructed homes exclusively for renting. The single-family rental trend has mostly been driven the last few years by big investors, such as Blackstone Group LP and Colony Capital, that are buying existing single-family homes to rent them out.

Some housing analysts don’t believe this will become a trend of big builders taking their business into constructing single-family homes for rent.

“The opportunity is pretty significant in for-sale,” Ivy Zelman, CEO of Zelman & Associates, a housing market consulting and research firm, told The Wall Street Journal. “I think that’s where they’ll remain, where they have the expertise. It’s a completely different business managing tenants.”

Mike Wheatley is the senior editor at Realty Biz News. Got a real estate related news article you wish to share, contact Mike at [email protected].
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