Home Builders

Home Builders Overview

RubinBrown has an established and well-recognized Home Builders Services Group that provides a full range of assurance, tax, business planning and management consulting services to the home building industry.

We offer specialized services and expertise as well as close personal attention to our clients. In addition, we are well equipped to help clients with family business consulting, strategic planning, fringe benefit consulting, technology consulting, bookkeeping services, and permanent and temporary staffing needs.

RubinBrown’s experience and expertise within the home building industry, including land developers, is demonstrated by our national reputation and the top quality service provided to our clients. Our leaders have led numerous seminars at the National Association of Home Builders Annual Conventions and local Home Builders Associations. We are often quoted in leading trade publications on various business management topics including serving as a judge for Builder Magazine’s America’s Best Builder.

Through our unique Business Performance Analysis (BPA), RubinBrown also devotes substantial resources to the development of industry statistics and publications that provide additional tools and information to better evaluate and manage your business. Our "benchmark information" highlights your company’s strengths and opportunities for improvement. Our mission is to assist in improving your "bottom line," providing ideas to make your business more efficient, and helping to best manage your overall tax costs.

Home Builders Specialized Services

Assurance services
Tax planning, preparation, and consulting
Strategic planning
Cash flow analysis and cash management
Family business consulting and succession planning
Budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis
Internal control and operational reviews
Mergers and acquisitions
Financing assistance
Acquisitions/divestiture services
Budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis
Forecasts and projections
Business valuation
Planning and structure of sale of business
Internal controls/operational review

Through our BPAs, we provide our home building clients detailed industry comparison statistics and analysis including:

Income statement accounts
Land and development costs (developed lots)
Direct construction costs
Indirect construction costs
Financial costs
Selling expenses
Relationships between closing volume and superintendents, laborers, and general and administrative employees
- Debt to equity ratio
- Lot inventory and display house needs
- Spec market activity
Job cost and cash flow modeling

In addition, we have developed a solid reputation for providing tax planning strategies and opportunities that are unique to the home building industry and are used as a guide by others around the country including:

Capitalized interest expense
Section 263(A) expertise
Partnership and joint venture structures
Domestic Production activities expense

Home Builders Publications

Home Builder Stats
RubinBrown’s Home Builders Services Group annually publishes its Home Builders Statistical Analysis, which details and compares operating results for residential home builders in our markets. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 2010 HOME BUILDER STATS

Home Builders Resource Links

The Home Builders Services Group has compiled a list of online resources we feel may by helpful to you and your business. To easily access this information in the future, you may wish to bookmark this page.

	The National Association of Home Builders The National Association of Home Builders is a federation of more than 800 state and local builder associations throughout the United States. The mission of this Washington, D.C.-based trade association is to enhance the climate for housing and the building industry and to promote policies that will keep housing a national priority. Chief among NAHB's goals is to provide and expand opportunities for all consumers to have safe, decent and affordable housing. As "the voice of America’s housing industry," NAHB helps promote policies that will keep housing a national priority. NAHB offers up-to-date information on the home building industry to keep the public informed.
	NAHB Chart of Accounts Developed by Members, For Members To monitor, understand and control your business' finances, you need to carefully structure your financial information. NAHB's Chart of Accounts provides a convenient and complete format for organizing all of the information you need to make important business decisions.
	Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis The Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis began in 1934 when seven builders started the Builder's Guild. In the 70-plus years since, the HBA has grown to more than 1,100 members and is one of the most active local building industry associations in the country. The HBA is responsible for the geographic areas of St. Louis City and the counties of St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson, Lincoln, Pike, Montgomery, Franklin, Warren and Washington.
	Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City The Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City is the voice of the housing industry and the source for housing information. Comprising more than 1,000 member companies, the HBA represents an industry that contributes approximately $2.5 billion to the Kansas City economy and supports more than 36,000 jobs in the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area. For more than 65 years, the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City has been working to support the home building industry and the homebuyers and home remodelers who keep the industry strong. HBA is proud to bring you an outstanding, year-round opportunity to experience the home building and home improvement industries.
	Home Builders Association Of Greater Southwest Illinois The Home Builders Association of Greater Southwest Illinois is a professional organization of more than 250 builders, developers, remodeling contractors, specialty trade contractors and associate members. In order to assist the consumer in new home purchase or home improvement decisions, the HBA provides information about the building process, materials and techniques, as well as a referral list of established professionals in the home building industry. The builders, remodelers and developers in the HBA agree to abide by our Code of Ethics, to use accepted professional and business practices, and to meet or exceed local, state and federal standards and regulations.
	Builder Online An online resource for home builders, including events and trends, home plans, products and access to Builder Magazine.
	Home Builders Association of Middle Tennessee Founded in 1941, the HBAMT is an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). A voluntary non-profit trade association, HBAMT is dedicated to promoting the American dream of homeownership in Middle Tennessee through affordable, quality housing.
	Constellation HomeBuilder Systems Constellation HomeBuilder Systems is the leader and most progressive homebuilding construction business software company in North America. As the largest provider of construction software to the homebuilding industry, Constellation HomeBuilder Systems offers an all-encompassing suite of integrated systems from dirt to warranty with a long-term commitment to the homebuilding industry, through investment in new products, new technologies, and continuous improvement. Click here to watch a recent webinar featuring RubinBrown Partners Steve Hays and Felicia Malter.