For more than a decade, Japanese home builders have been tiptoeing into the U.S. housing market with small, discreet acquisitions of private American construction companies. Their quiet era is over.

The U.S. housing market is already tough enough to navigate. Mortgage rates remain elevated (1), affordability is stretched, and many buyers are stuck waiting for conditions to improve. Even as home ...

There was a five-week window this spring during which four different U.S. homebuilders—one of them publicly traded, Tri Pointe Homes—were acquired by Japanese firms. At the time, ResiClub estimated ...

Japanese companies now own 33 homebuilders that operate in the U.S. Once the most recent deals are closed, they will have ...

Spring is usually the time when construction companies build more homes in anticipation of rising sales. But for the third year in a row the picture in the housing market is bleak. Construction of new ...