FORT WASHINGTON, Pa., Sept. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE: TOL) (www.TollBrothers.com) In anticipation of upcoming meetings with investors, Toll Brothers, the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, today announced preliminary results regarding the Company’s fourth quarter-to-date net signed new home contracts.
Midway through the Company’s FY 2020 fourth quarter, from August 1 through September 15, 2020, the Company’s net signed contracts increased 110% year-over-year to 1,678 homes, compared with 800 homes for the same period in FY 2019. Average monthly per-community demand increased 114% over the same period to 3.6 contracts-per-community from 1.7 one year earlier.
Douglas C. Yearley, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer, stated: “The strong demand in our third quarter has continued into mid-September of our fourth quarter throughout our twenty-four states and across our product lines and price points. We continue to raise prices to manage the pace of growth, offset rising costs, and maximize profitability.
“We attribute the accelerated buyer demand to a number of factors, including historically low interest rates, a continued undersupply of homes, and a growing desire for a home that can be personalized for today’s evolving lifestyles. Our luxury build-to-order business model is ideally suited to meet these trends. With our diversified product lines and well-located land, we believe we are positioned for growth in FY 2021, assuming market fundamentals remain favorable.”
| Quarter-to-Date Ended September 15, | ||||||
| % Change | ||||||
| North | 426 | 233 | 83 | % | ||
| Mid-Atlantic | 241 | 116 | 108 | % | ||
| South | 321 | 119 | 170 | % | ||
| Mountain | 447 | 221 | 102 | % | ||
| Pacific | 233 | 88 | 165 | % | ||
| City Living | 10 | 23 | (57 | ) | % | |
| Total | 1,678 | 800 | 110 | % | ||
Toll Brothers, Inc., A FORTUNE 500 Company, is the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes. The Company began business over fifty years ago in 1967 and became a public company in 1986. Its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TOL.” The Company serves first-time, affordable luxury, move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, and second-home buyers, as well as urban and suburban renters. It operates in 24 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as in the District of Columbia.
Toll Brothers builds an array of luxury residential single-family detached, attached home, master planned resort-style golf, and urban low-, mid-, and high-rise communities, principally on land it develops and improves. The Company acquires and develops rental apartment and commercial properties through Toll Brothers Apartment Living, Toll Brothers Campus Living, and the affiliated Toll Brothers Realty Trust, and develops urban low-, mid-, and high-rise for-sale condominiums through Toll Brothers City Living. The Company operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development and land sale, golf course development and management, and landscape subsidiaries. Toll Brothers operates its own alarm monitoring company through TBI Smart Home Solutions, a complete home technology division. In addition to providing security monitoring, TBI Smart Home Solutions offers homeowners a full range of low voltage options, allowing buyers to maximize the potential of technology in their new home. The Company also operates its own lumber distribution, house component assembly, and manufacturing operations. Through its Gibraltar Real Estate Capital joint venture, the Company provides builders and developers with land banking, non-recourse debt and equity capital.
In 2020, Toll Brothers was named World’s Most Admired Home Building Company in Fortune magazine’s survey of the World’s Most Admired Companies®, the sixth year in a row it has been so honored. Toll Brothers has won numerous other awards, including Builder of the Year from both Professional Builder magazine and Builder magazine, the first two-time recipient from Builder magazine. The Company sponsors the Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, bringing opera to neighborhoods throughout the world. For more information visit www.TollBrothers.com.
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