Company: SDHC
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001982518-25-000020
Chunk: 91

Company: Smith Douglas Homes Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 91
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 of 19% in both the number of homes closed and home closing revenue over the same period of the prior year. Our net new home orders and contract value of net new home orders remained constant period over period.

We construct most of our homes on a pre-sold basis, where our homebuyers choose their homes based on a select number of value-engineered floor plans and are offered flexibility on the selection of home options. Our SMART Builder enterprise resource planning system and efficient construction process, which we call Rteam, allows us to provide this optionality for homebuyers based on just-in-time modifications. As a result of our differentiated value proposition and efficient construction cycle times, we believe we typically achieve a high level of homebuyer satisfaction and experience low cancellation rates, which were 8% and 11% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

At the core of our land-light operating strategy lies the principle and discipline of primarily acquiring finished lots from a diverse pool of third-party land developers or land bankers through the effective utilization of lot-option contracts. Our lot acquisition strategy reduces our upfront capital requirements and generally seeks to provide for “just-in-time” lot delivery, better aligning our pace of home orders and home starts. While using land bankers and third-party developers comes at an additional cost, we believe our lot acquisition strategy reduces our operational and financial risk relative to other homebuilders that own a higher percentage of their land supply. As of March 31, 2025, we had 888 owned unstarted lots in real estate inventory on our balance sheet which represented only 4.3% of our total controlled lot supply.

We believe the geographic markets in which we operate demonstrate strong population and employment growth trends, favorable migration patterns, and desirable lifestyle and weather conditions. Our operations are currently organized into eight geographical divisions which comprise two reportable segments. Our Southeast segment consists of our Atlanta, Central Georgia, Charlotte, Greenville, and Raleigh divisions. Our Central segment consists of our Alabama, Houston, and Nashville divisions. We believe there is significant opportunity to expand our presence in each of our respective markets.

We believe our dedication to entry-level and empty-nest homebuyers with a focus on price points that fall below FHA guidelines, our efficient construction process, and our affordable luxury sales experience caters to the desires of today’s aspiring homeowners and is resilient across economic cycles. While we expect the current housing undersupply and favorable demographic trends to provide a strong, long-term runway for future new home buying