New Home Star Wins Gold Award at the NAHB’s The Nationals

Chicago, IL (March 12, 2026) — New Home Star’s Emily Vasaturo has been awarded a Gold Award in the Sales Professional of the Year category by NAHB’s National Sales and Marketing Council (NSMC), one of the homebuilding industry’s most distinguished honors recognizing excellence in new home sales and marketing. The awards ceremony took place on February 17 at the Hyatt Regency Orlando during the 2026 International Builders’ Show.

“We are proud to have Emily representing New Home Star in this year’s Nationals awards,” says New Home Star Founder David Rice. “Her commitment to delivering a world-class homebuying experience and elevating sales performance for the builders and buyers she serves is exceptional. We are incredibly proud of her achievement and look forward to all she will continue to accomplish.”

An esteemed panel of industry professionals selected this year’s Silver Honorees from more than 1,200 entries nationwide, with only a select group advancing to receive the coveted Gold Award. In addition to Vasaturo’s Gold Award, New Home Star also earned four Silver Award honors.

Established in 1982 as the Institute of Residential Marketing, The Nationals continues to celebrate the highest standards of excellence across nearly seventy categories. Honorees represent outstanding achievements in product and community design, creative advertising, strategic marketing, and individual and team sales performance.

For a complete list of Gold and Silver winners, please visit the 2025 Winners’ Book.

About NAHB

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is a Washington, D.C.–based trade association representing more than 140,000 members across the homebuilding industry, including single-family and multifamily builders, remodelers, developers, subcontractors, designers, housing finance professionals, and building product manufacturers. Through a federation of over 800 state and local home builders associations nationwide, NAHB advocates for policies that promote housing affordability, innovation, and responsible growth. Collectively, NAHB’s builder members will construct the majority of new housing units in the United States this year.

About New Home Star

As the largest private seller of new homes in America, New Home Star partners with builders to help them sell more homes more profitably.™ Operating in over forty markets, New Home Star offers cutting-edge tools and an award-winning culture for builders to have sustainable, scalable success. The firm’s home builder solutions and services include home builder marketing, sales training, new home sales software, consulting, and more, each designed with the builder in mind to evolve with the ever-changing nature of our industry. Explore our service and offerings at newhomestar.com and find us on social for industry-leading insights.