Lennar's Biggest Problem Is Incentives, Not Land Costs -- Market Talk

Dow Jones04-02

1515 ET - A Hunterbrook report this week identified the drag of Lennar's land-banking strategy on its margins, but Lennar's real margin problem is its incentives, not its land costs, say Zelman & Associates analysts. "While higher land costs have, and will continue, to put pressure on gross margins, the cleaner explanation for recent margin pressure is that LEN has been using price cuts and financing incentives as its main demand lever," the analysts say. That means that a rebound in the housing market and a normalization of incentives should lead to meaningful margin recovery even without a change in land-banking approach. (nicholas.miller@wsj.com)

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