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| I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to our employees for their collective efforts in delivering exceptional homes to thousands of homebuyers as well as generating industry-leading performance |
| 2023 was an absolutely stellar year for Green Brick |
| With strong starts and shorter cycle times, we believe that Green Brick is entering 2024 with a strong platform for generating growth and continuing to provide strong returns to our shareholders |
| Our year was highlighted by the following record performance that we set in 2023 for the full year, record home closings revenue for the year of $1.77 billion, record homebuilding gross margin of 30.9% and record diluted EPS of $6.14 |
| We have tremendous liquidity and the ability to move in a moment |
| Significantly, our net new orders for the full year increased over 70% year-over-year to a record 3,356 homes sold |
| As you can see in Slides 4, 5 and 6, our net new order growth rate ranked the highest among our public builder home madling peers |
| We also again achieved the highest gross margin of the public homebuilders in the fourth quarter and experienced the largest homebuilding revenue growth for the full year |
| We're very proud of that fact, and we're trying to climb even further up that ranking |
| Looking ahead, we believe that our ability to source and entitle land, rigorous land underwriting and continued operational improvements at our division management and land development teams will continue to provide superior risk-adjusted returns |
| Ultimately, the strong buyer demand we've seen across all of our brands confirms our belief that strategically located infill and infill adjacent communities represent a significant opportunity for growth and high sales velocity |
| 2023 was a phenomenal year for Green Brick marked by record results despite a challenging high interest rate environment |
| More importantly, DFW our largest market, representing 71% of homebuilding revenues has continued to be among the nation's leaders in building starts and economic growth |
| We have a good lot position, and I don't want to give into a 15-minute explanation of how we underwrite lots and how they're stable in the longer life neighborhood, we actually gained ground versus that option lots, but we're still feeling very great that we're going to have the history leading margins in '24 |
| DFW had a 3.3% job gains rate that was almost double the 1.8% national increase, being the third largest homebuilder in one of the biggest homebuilding markets, Green Brick continued to benefit from favorable demographic trends and job growth in the region |
| We have had great success in Austin since we opened our first community at the end of July of 2023 |
| We were able to successfully apply Trophy's play growth across the DSW Metroplex as well as Austin, a more challenging market than DFW in 2023 |
| We believe that Green Brick is uniquely equipped to take advantage the current market conditions with our strategic advantages and land position and development entitlement expertise |
| Our cash flow is exceedingly strong, given our margins, given our increasing volumes, et cetera |
| We closed out 2023 with record results that reflect our strategic advantages, our disciplined approach and the successful execution of our strategy by our talented and dedicated team members |
| I'd just say we're very excited because we've ever since the start of COVID, we really have been facing lot delivery bottlenecks, and we really feel for the first time that we have all the lots that we need on the ground to execute our business plan for this year |
| So as we mentioned earlier in our call, we're seeing improvement in the upper end brands as well |
| We believe that our ability to self-develop in markets where land developers are scarce, gives us an upper hand in generating the highest homebuilding gross margins in the industry as well as having better control of a lot delivery scheduling and cost |
| We believe we can continue to generate better returns than most peers who adopt land-light models that carry a hit cost, a high capital paid to the providers of off-balance sheet financing |
| It can also serve as a springboard for sustainable growth going forward based on our lot inventory, product desirability operational efficiency and scalability |
| Each of our builders is unique, has decades of market advantages from deep and extensive connections in their local markets that positions them to source strong land and lot positions |
| Similar to DFW, Houston has a young and growing population and a strong market that we believe will create demand tailwinds for entry-level and move-up homes |
| Trophy, is in an excellent position to capture this demand with their value-rich products |
| Home closings revenue for the fourth quarter grew 4.6% year-over-year to $448 million, bringing full year home closing revenues to a record high of $1.77 billion |
| This represents a growth rate of 4.2%, the highest among public homebuilders |
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| Our public peers experienced an average home closings revenue decline of 5.6% |
| Sales of existing homes in 2023 dropped 19% year-over-year and fell to the lowest level in almost 30 years, highlighting the persistent golden hand cuff effect on existing homeowners were locked into low fixed rate mortgages, they are unwilling to relinquish as shown on Slide 8 |
| Our cancellation rate for the fourth quarter remained low at 7.2%, the lowest among public homebuilding peers as shown on Slide 13 |
| Like Jed said, they've woken up again, certainly the movements in stabilization in rates last year and them actually coming down early this year, have been certainly blessings for the buyers |
| The sequential decline of 190 basis points from Q3 was due to higher incentives on spec homes when mortgage rates peaked in October |
| Actually, the deal flows have slowed down because I think all of the boutique brokers know that any of the deals that they show us are not going to be accretive to our earnings |
| From a directional standpoint, incentives are down in the first quarter from where they were through Q4 |
| And it's tougher than Dallas, margins are lower than Dallas, incentives are higher than Dallas |
| So that ASP is an anomaly |
| As a result, incentives drop from 6% in October to 5.2% in December |
| Trophy is down to about 120 days |
| At the same time, things kind of slowed in the fourth quarter with mortgage rates hitting 8% |
| We don't see a lot of improvement from that going forward |
| In yesterday's press release and SEC filings, the company detailed material risks that may cause our future results to differ from its expectations |
| James Brickman Carl, we were pleasantly surprised that 1 of the top 3 builders, I'm going to keep it in the group -- almost kind of dumbed down and copied some of our more contemporary elevations |
| Jed Dolson Well, I can tell you that we haven't seen margin degradation going into this year so far, and we're keeping our fingers crossed that that's going to continue |
| So that was a little bit of an anomaly |
| The anticipated decline in ASP was predominantly driven by a year-over-year increase in the percentage of Trophy Signature Homes closed homes in more perimeter locations as well as by a change in product mix within Trophy |
| Incentives peaked in October when mortgage rates hit a 23-year high |
| For Green Brick overall, the current cycle time is 5.7 months down from peak cycle time of 10 months in 2022 |
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