Top of Mind

Reimagining New Home Construction with Veev’s Amit Haller


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In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Amit Haller, CEO and Co-Founder of Veev Group, to talk about how Veev has entirely re-imagined the centuries-old new home construction process. Amit shares how he’s applied approaches from the semiconductor industry to address many of the challenges of traditional home building, and discusses Veev’s bold ambitions for its technology to dramatically reduce costs, accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce waste. He also looks more broadly at the dynamics shaping the industry, and what to expect in the future.

About Amit Haller

Amit Haller is the CEO and Co-Founder of Veev Group, Inc. Amit has over 20 years experience in the high-tech communications industry, including leading positions in public companies, and over a decade of extensive real estate development, asset management and construction experience.

He brings a global perspective and an eye for successful investment opportunities, as well as deep knowledge in engineering, entrepreneurship and business. Amit has led Veev since 2008 with a high‐tech business lens, reimagining the way the home experience is designed, built and serviced. Today, Amit is dedicated to utilizing Veev’s proprietary technology and a vertically integrated approach to build better homes, faster.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • What homebuilders can learn from semiconductor companies
  • Why California wildfires inspired this company to build homes in California
  • Why the time is right for productized home building
  • How to achieve a 30-day turnaround for building a new home - Why he wants homeowners to “hug the walls”
  • The challenges facing builder trade labor, and why it makes sense to streamline
  • How Veev reduces landfill waste by orders of magnitude and dramatically reduces carbon emissions
  • What features homes of the future will need to have in order to be energy positive

  • Resources mentioned in this episode:

    • Connect with Amit on LinkedIn
    • Veev
    • Mike Simonsen on LinkedIn
    • Altos Research

    • Featuring Mike Simonsen, President of Altos Research

      A true data geek, Mike founded Altos Research in 2006 to bring data and insight on the U.S. housing market to those who need it most. The company now serves the largest Wall Street investment firms, banks, and tens of thousands of real estate professionals around the country. Mike's insights on the market have been featured in Forbes, New York Times, Bloomberg, Dallas Morning News, Seattle PI, and many other national media outlets.

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      • About Altos Research

        The Top of Mind Podcast is produced by Altos Research.

        Each week, Altos tracks every home for sale in the country - all the pricing, and all the changes in pricing - and synthesizes those analytics to make them available before becoming visible through traditional channels.

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