View Homes CEO Gandhi rebuilds builder operating platform

Editor’s note: This installment of Built for This is part of HousingWire’s ongoing examination of homebuilding leaders and companies improving their businesses in a housing market that offers little outside help. View Homes CEO Natasha Gandhi will join Signature Homes chairman Dwight Sandlin and National HomeCorp executive chairman Wade Jurney on the CEO Power Panel at the HousingWire Homebuilder Summit, Oct. 19–21 in Dallas.Homebuilders can’t choose the right moment to overhaul a business.There is no pit stop to suspend sales, construction, land development and customer commitments while a new CEO replaces leaders, redraws accountabilities, standardizes operating practices, modernizes technology and decides which assets belong in the company’s future.Natasha Gandhi knew much of that work would be necessary when she became View Homes’ CEO in March. Six months into the job, with new-home demand still soft and affordability constraining buyers across much of the country, Gandhi has reached a perhaps counterintuitive conclusion about timing.She would rather do it now.“I would have had to do this either way: good market, great market, bad market,” Gandhi told me. “I’d rather do it now,...