# Berkshire Hathaway's plan to create a combined housing platform

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2026-06-02
**Categories:** berkshire-hathaway, greg-abel, housing, homebuilder, acquisition, development, real-estate, taylor-morrison
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/berkshire-hathaways-plan-to-create-a-combined-housing-platform

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Over the weekend, Berkshire Hathaway announced that it has come to an agreement to buy Arizona-based homebuilder Taylor Morrison for US$6.8 billion in cash. The agreed-upon price is $72.50 per share, representing a 24% premium over the company's closing stock price on the prior Friday. Once the transaction closes, Taylor Morrison will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and become a privately held company within the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. Now, the press release only says so much, but I did find the canned quotes interesting. Greg Abel of Berkshire said that the company wants to "unify our site-built homebuilding operations into a combined platform." And Sheryl Palmer, CEO of Taylor, said the acquisition "will allow us to scale the Taylor Morrison platform in ways that would not be possible as a standalone company.” Berkshire has a long history in housing. It also owns a manufactured home company (i.e. not site-built), and various companies that make up the housing supply chain: bricks, paint, insulation, roofing, sales, and more. So it'll be interesting to see what they are able to achieve by way of a "combined platform." It has elements of both vertical and horizontal integration. The other interesting thing about this announcement is that it also seems to signal the following: Abel wants Berkshire to be more of an active manager (finding those "synergies" across its subsidiary companies), and he likely feels the housing market is at or near the bottom of the cycle (despite current inflation risks). Regardless, the US has a structural housing deficit and so homebuilding is probably a good business to be in for the long term.Cover photo by Josh Olalde on Unsplash

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