The Dallas-Fort Worth area has one of the largest and most diverse new-construction markets in Texas. Buyers can find everything from affordable starter homes and low-maintenance townhomes to luxury residences and fully customized estates.
Hundreds of residential builders and contractors operate throughout North Texas. NewHomeSource currently identifies more than 280 builders in the broader Dallas market, while the Dallas Builders Association maintains an active directory of residential builders, remodelers, developers, and other housing-industry professionals.
Because builders regularly open, close, or sell out of communities, no online list can guarantee that every company is actively building in every Dallas-Fort Worth suburb at a particular time. However, this guide provides an extensive list of the major production, move-up, luxury, townhome, active-adult, and custom builders buyers are most likely to encounter throughout the Metroplex.
Major Home Builders in Dallas-Fort Worth
The following builders are among the most recognizable companies offering new homes across North Texas.
American Legend Homes
American Legend Homes builds throughout several growing Dallas-Fort Worth communities. The company offers a range of home designs, including traditional single-family homes in master-planned developments.
Ashton Woods
Ashton Woods offers new homes with an emphasis on interior design, flexible floor plans, and personalized finishes.
Beazer Homes
Beazer Homes builds new homes in several Dallas-area communities. Buyers may find single-family homes, energy-efficient features, and multiple financing options.
Bloomfield Homes
Bloomfield Homes is a major Dallas-Fort Worth builder known for offering homes with many features included in the base price. The company builds throughout communities in Ellis, Dallas, Denton, Johnson, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant counties.
Brightland Homes
Brightland Homes offers single-family homes across Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The company was previously associated with the Gehan Homes brand.
CastleRock Communities
CastleRock Communities builds homes across several Texas markets, including communities throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Centex Homes
Centex Homes is part of the PulteGroup family of brands and generally focuses on attainable new-construction options for first-time and value-conscious buyers.
Chesmar Homes
Chesmar Homes builds new homes in selected Dallas-Fort Worth communities. Buyers may find inventory homes, flexible floor plans, builder incentives, and options for personalization.
Coventry Homes
Coventry Homes offers move-up and luxury-oriented homes in several North Texas master-planned communities.
David Weekley Homes
David Weekley Homes is a well-established national builder with homes in several Dallas-Fort Worth communities. Its offerings may include detached homes, townhomes, cottage-style properties, and larger move-up residences.
D.R. Horton
D.R. Horton is one of the largest production builders in the Metroplex. Its Dallas-Fort Worth portfolio includes entry-level, move-up, and active-adult homes under several brands.
Drees Custom Homes
Drees Custom Homes offers a combination of predesigned plans and personalized home-building options. The company is active in several higher-end North Texas communities.
First Texas Homes
First Texas Homes builds primarily in the Dallas-Fort Worth market and is known for larger floor plans, architectural options, and move-up homes in suburban communities.
Grand Homes
Grand Homes is a Dallas-based builder offering larger homes with distinctive elevations, open layouts, high ceilings, and luxury-oriented design features.
Highland Homes
Highland Homes is a Texas builder with a substantial presence throughout Dallas-Fort Worth. It offers homes across several price levels, from smaller single-family designs to luxury properties.
HistoryMaker Homes
HistoryMaker Homes builds homes in several North Texas communities, with options commonly aimed at first-time and move-up buyers.
Impression Homes
Impression Homes offers new homes in multiple Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs, including communities in Tarrant, Denton, Kaufman, Rockwall, Johnson, and surrounding counties.
KB Home
KB Home offers new-construction homes with a focus on personalization. Buyers may be able to select flooring, cabinets, countertops, and other finishes depending on the construction stage.
Lennar
Lennar is one of the largest builders operating in Dallas-Fort Worth. The company offers single-family homes, townhomes, active-adult options, and homes with packaged features in numerous communities.
LGI Homes
LGI Homes generally focuses on entry-level and value-oriented new homes. Many of its communities are located in growing areas outside the central Dallas and Fort Worth employment centers.
M/I Homes
M/I Homes offers new homes throughout selected North Texas communities. Its portfolio may include traditional single-family homes, townhomes, and move-up properties.
Mattamy Homes
Mattamy Homes develops new homes and communities in selected parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Megatel Homes
Megatel Homes is a North Texas builder and developer with single-family homes, townhomes, and lagoon-centered residential developments.
Meritage Homes
Meritage Homes offers energy-efficient new homes throughout Dallas-Fort Worth. The company commonly builds in suburban and outer-ring communities with options for first-time and move-up buyers.
Perry Homes
Perry Homes builds in several Dallas-Fort Worth master-planned communities. Its homes generally serve move-up and luxury buyers, with a broad selection of plans and elevations.
Pulte Homes
Pulte Homes offers new homes in several North Texas communities. Floor plans often include flexible rooms, open living spaces, home offices, and options designed for move-up buyers.
Riverside Homebuilders
Riverside Homebuilders builds throughout the western and southern portions of the Dallas-Fort Worth region, including several communities surrounding Fort Worth.
Shaddock Homes
Shaddock Homes is a North Texas builder offering move-up and luxury homes in communities throughout cities such as Frisco, Parker, Prosper, Rockwall, and surrounding areas.
Starlight Homes
Starlight Homes focuses primarily on affordable and entry-level new homes. Its communities are often located in growing suburban and exurban areas.
Taylor Morrison
Taylor Morrison offers new homes across a variety of price points in Dallas-Fort Worth, including single-family, move-up, luxury, and active-adult options.
Toll Brothers
Toll Brothers is a national luxury builder offering homes in several higher-end North Texas communities. Buyers may find extensive architectural, structural, and design-center options.
Tri Pointe Homes
Tri Pointe Homes builds contemporary single-family homes in selected Dallas-Fort Worth communities.
Trophy Signature Homes
Trophy Signature Homes is a Texas builder offering modern floor plans with design packages and features commonly included in the purchase price.
UnionMain Homes
UnionMain Homes builds new homes throughout selected Dallas-Fort Worth communities, with options ranging from entry-level to move-up properties.
Affordable and First-Time Home Buyer Builders
Affordability depends on the specific community, floor plan, interest rate, taxes, insurance, HOA dues, and available incentives. However, the following builders commonly offer homes marketed toward first-time or budget-conscious buyers:
- Centex Homes
- D.R. Horton
- HistoryMaker Homes
- Impression Homes
- KB Home
- Lennar
- LGI Homes
- Meritage Homes
- Starlight Homes
- UnionMain Homes
Some of the most affordable new homes are located farther from Dallas and Fort Worth in growing communities such as:
- Anna
- Aubrey
- Azle
- Caddo Mills
- Crandall
- Ennis
- Farmersville
- Fate
- Forney
- Greenville
- Heartland
- Josephine
- Kaufman
- Lavon
- Princeton
- Royse City
- Seagoville
- Terrell
- Venus
- Waxahachie
A lower sales price does not always mean a lower monthly payment. Buyers should compare property taxes, special district assessments, HOA fees, homeowners insurance, mortgage insurance, and commuting costs before choosing a community.
Move-Up Home Builders
Move-up builders typically serve buyers who want more space, additional bedrooms, upgraded finishes, larger lots, or more community amenities.
Common move-up builders in Dallas-Fort Worth include:
- American Legend Homes
- Ashton Woods
- Bloomfield Homes
- Brightland Homes
- Chesmar Homes
- Coventry Homes
- David Weekley Homes
- First Texas Homes
- Highland Homes
- M/I Homes
- Perry Homes
- Pulte Homes
- Shaddock Homes
- Taylor Morrison
- Tri Pointe Homes
Luxury Home Builders in Dallas-Fort Worth
Luxury new construction may include larger homesites, premium finishes, architectural personalization, high-end appliances, outdoor living spaces, multigenerational layouts, and gated or amenity-rich communities.
Major luxury and upper-end builders include:
- Britton Homes
- Coventry Homes
- Darling Homes
- David Weekley Homes
- Drees Custom Homes
- Grand Homes
- Highland Homes
- Perry Homes
- Shaddock Homes
- Southgate Homes
- Toll Brothers
Availability and price ranges vary significantly by community.
Townhome Builders in Dallas-Fort Worth
Townhomes can be attractive to buyers seeking newer construction with less exterior maintenance, smaller yards, or convenient access to employment and entertainment areas.
CB JENI Homes
CB JENI Homes specializes in townhome communities throughout North Texas.
Cadence Homes
Cadence Homes develops townhomes and attached residential communities in selected Dallas-Fort Worth locations.
Centre Living Homes
Centre Living Homes builds contemporary homes and townhomes in urban and close-in Dallas neighborhoods.
David Weekley Homes
David Weekley Homes offers townhomes and low-maintenance detached homes in selected communities.
Lennar
Lennar offers townhome collections in several North Texas developments.
Megatel Homes
Megatel Homes offers townhomes in selected Dallas-area communities.
Normandy Homes
Normandy Homes builds single-family homes and townhomes in several North Texas communities.
Townhomes may include additional HOA responsibilities, shared walls, limited guest parking, rental restrictions, and exterior-maintenance rules. Review the community documents before purchasing.
Active-Adult and 55-Plus Builders
Active-adult communities may include single-story homes, low-maintenance yards, social programming, fitness facilities, pools, walking trails, and resident clubs.
Del Webb
Del Webb is a PulteGroup brand specializing in active-adult communities for residents age 55 and older.
D.R. Horton Freedom Homes
D.R. Horton offers Freedom Homes in selected active-adult communities.
Lennar Active Adult
Lennar offers active-adult collections in selected developments.
Taylor Morrison Esplanade
Taylor Morrison offers resort-style and active-adult communities through its Esplanade brand in selected markets.
Age restrictions, occupancy rules, amenities, HOA fees, and included maintenance vary by community.
Custom Home Builders in Dallas
Custom home builders generally provide more flexibility than production builders. Buyers may be able to select or create the floor plan, choose an architect, modify structural details, source specialized materials, and build on a privately owned lot.
Dallas-area custom builders include:
- Alford Homes
- Bella Custom Homes
- Bob Thompson Homes
- Coats Homes
- Desco Fine Homes
- Ellen Grasso & Sons
- Hawkins-Welwood Homes
- Hudson Construction Group
- J. Anthony Custom Homes
- Jim Scott and Sons Builders
- Lingenfelter Luxury Homes
- Mark Molthan Platinum Series
- Robert Elliott Custom Homes
- Rosewood Custom Builders
- Sharif & Munir Custom Homes
- Starside Custom Builders
- Susan Newell Custom Home Builder
- Tatum Brown Custom Homes
- The Avant Group
- Thomas Signature Homes
- Veranda Designer Homes
The Dallas Builders Association also maintains a searchable member directory that can help buyers locate additional residential and custom builders.
Before selecting a custom builder, buyers should verify:
- Current licensing and insurance requirements
- References from recent clients
- Previous projects
- Construction timelines
- Cost-plus versus fixed-price contracts
- Allowances
- Change-order procedures
- Warranty coverage
- Draw schedules
- Lien-release procedures
- Lot-development expenses
Popular Dallas-Fort Worth Cities for New Construction
New-construction availability changes frequently, but buyers commonly encounter new communities in the following cities and areas.
North of Dallas
- Anna
- Aubrey
- Celina
- Denton
- Frisco
- Little Elm
- McKinney
- Melissa
- Pilot Point
- Princeton
- Prosper
- Van Alstyne
East of Dallas
- Caddo Mills
- Fate
- Forney
- Greenville
- Heartland
- Heath
- Josephine
- Kaufman
- Lavon
- Rockwall
- Royse City
- Terrell
South of Dallas
- Cedar Hill
- DeSoto
- Ennis
- Ferris
- Glenn Heights
- Lancaster
- Mansfield
- Midlothian
- Red Oak
- Venus
- Waxahachie
Fort Worth and West DFW
- Aledo
- Azle
- Crowley
- Fort Worth
- Haslet
- Justin
- Keller
- Northlake
- Saginaw
- Weatherford
Northeast DFW
- Argyle
- Corinth
- Flower Mound
- Keller
- Northlake
- Roanoke
- Trophy Club
Popular Master-Planned Communities in Dallas-Fort Worth
Many builders operate within master-planned communities that combine housing with amenities, schools, trails, retail, and community programming.
Popular and growing communities include:
- Painted Tree in McKinney
- Trinity Falls in McKinney
- Windsong Ranch in Prosper
- Light Farms in Celina
- Mustang Lakes near Celina
- Mosaic near Celina
- Fields in Frisco
- PGA Frisco-area communities
- Pecan Square in Northlake
- Harvest in Argyle
- Union Park in Little Elm
- Wildridge in Oak Point
- Heartland in Kaufman County
- Solterra Texas in Mesquite
- Devonshire in Forney
- Gateway Parks in Forney
- Walsh in Fort Worth
- Tavolo Park in Fort Worth
- Ventana in Fort Worth
- M3 Ranch in Mansfield
- Midlothian-area master-planned communities
Builder rosters, pricing, amenities, school assignments, and available inventory can change as each development progresses.
How to Compare Dallas Home Builders
Choosing a builder should involve more than comparing model homes.
Compare the Actual Home Price
The model home may include structural changes and design upgrades that are not included in the advertised base price.
Ask for an itemized estimate that includes:
- Base price
- Lot premium
- Structural options
- Design upgrades
- Appliances
- Landscaping
- Blinds
- Gutters
- Fencing
- Closing costs
- HOA fees
- Special district assessments
Compare the Monthly Payment
Two similarly priced homes may have very different payments because of:
- Interest rate
- Discount points
- Property taxes
- MUD or PID assessments
- Homeowners insurance
- HOA dues
- Mortgage insurance
Always compare the complete estimated monthly payment.
Review Included Features
A builder with a higher base price may include features that another builder charges extra for.
Compare:
- Flooring
- Countertops
- Cabinets
- Appliances
- Ceiling heights
- Exterior materials
- Smart-home equipment
- Garage-door openers
- Sprinkler systems
- Landscaping
- Energy-efficiency features
Review the Warranty
Ask for the full written warranty before signing the contract.
Determine:
- What is covered
- How long each component is covered
- How claims are submitted
- Who completes repairs
- Whether warranties transfer to future owners
- What is excluded
Research the Community
The builder is only one part of the decision.
Also evaluate:
- Location
- Commute
- School district
- Property taxes
- HOA restrictions
- Flood risk
- Drainage
- Future development
- Nearby retail
- Utility providers
- Internet availability
Builder Incentives in Dallas-Fort Worth
Builders may offer incentives to sell completed homes, meet sales goals, or encourage buyers to use an affiliated lender or title company.
Potential incentives include:
- Closing-cost assistance
- Temporary interest-rate buy-downs
- Permanent rate reductions
- Discount points
- Appliance packages
- Design-center credits
- Reduced lot premiums
- Price reductions
- Realtor bonuses
- Assistance with title expenses
An advertised $20,000 or $30,000 incentive does not automatically mean the offer is better than outside financing.
Compare:
- Interest rate
- Annual percentage rate
- Points
- Lender fees
- Monthly payment
- Cash required at closing
- Prepayment restrictions
- Long-term interest expense
Do You Need a REALTOR® When Buying From a Builder?
Having your own REALTOR® can be valuable when purchasing new construction.
The builder’s sales representative works for the builder. Your REALTOR® represents your interests, subject to the terms of your representation agreement.
A REALTOR® can help you:
- Compare builders and communities
- Locate unadvertised inventory
- Evaluate builder incentives
- Compare financing offers
- Estimate the complete monthly payment
- Review comparable sales
- Track contract deadlines
- Coordinate inspections
- Attend walkthroughs
- Negotiate available terms
- Communicate with the builder
- Advocate for you through closing
Many builders require your agent to accompany or register you during your first visit. Contact your REALTOR® before visiting a model home, completing an online form, or signing into a community.
Should You Inspect a Brand-New Home?
Yes.
A new home can still have incomplete work, damaged materials, improper installation, or construction defects.
Depending on the construction stage, buyers may consider:
- Foundation inspection
- Pre-drywall inspection
- Final home inspection
- Reinspection after repairs
- Sewer-scope inspection
- Termite inspection
- Warranty inspection before coverage expires
Municipal inspections are not a replacement for an independent inspection performed for the buyer.
Questions to Ask Before Signing a Builder Contract
Ask the builder or your REALTOR®:
- What is included in the advertised price?
- Is there a lot premium?
- Which model-home features are upgrades?
- What incentives are available?
- Must I use the builder’s lender to receive incentives?
- Is the earnest money refundable?
- What happens if the home does not appraise?
- What happens if my financing changes?
- Can I sell my current home before closing?
- Are independent inspections allowed?
- What warranties are included?
- How are construction delays handled?
- What are the estimated property taxes?
- Is the community in a MUD, PID, or other special district?
- What are the HOA dues and transfer fees?
- Are blinds, gutters, fencing, appliances, and landscaping included?
- When will the amenities be completed?
- Can the builder change materials or finishes?
- What happens to my deposit if the builder misses the estimated completion date?
- Will my REALTOR® be included in all construction and closing communications?
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the biggest home builder in Dallas-Fort Worth?
Several large national and regional builders have a major presence in Dallas-Fort Worth, including D.R. Horton, Lennar, Bloomfield Homes, Highland Homes, Perry Homes, David Weekley Homes, First Texas Homes, and Shaddock Homes. The number of active communities and available homes changes throughout the year.
Which Dallas builders offer affordable homes?
Builders commonly offering entry-level or value-oriented options include Centex, D.R. Horton, HistoryMaker Homes, Impression Homes, KB Home, Lennar, LGI Homes, Meritage Homes, Starlight Homes, and UnionMain Homes.
Actual affordability depends on the community, taxes, interest rate, insurance, HOA dues, and buyer qualifications.
Which builders offer luxury homes in Dallas?
Luxury and upper-end builders include Toll Brothers, Britton Homes, Drees Custom Homes, Grand Homes, Perry Homes, Shaddock Homes, Southgate Homes, Highland Homes, and numerous local custom builders.
Can I negotiate with a new-home builder?
Possibly. Builders may negotiate the price of completed inventory homes or offer assistance with closing costs, rate buy-downs, appliances, upgrades, or lot premiums.
Negotiating flexibility depends on inventory, sales goals, construction stage, demand, and community policies.
Is the builder’s preferred lender always the best option?
No. The preferred lender may offer significant incentives, but another lender may provide a better rate, lower fees, or a more suitable loan program.
Compare complete written loan estimates before deciding.
Can I use FHA or VA financing with a Dallas builder?
Many builders accept FHA, VA, and conventional financing, but eligibility depends on the property, construction status, lender, appraisal, buyer qualifications, and community requirements.
Can I buy a builder inventory home quickly?
Yes. A completed or nearly completed inventory home may close much faster than a home that has not yet started construction.
The closing timeline still depends on financing, appraisal, inspections, title work, and completion of any remaining builder items.
Final Thoughts
Dallas-Fort Worth buyers have access to one of the broadest selections of new-home builders in the country.
Whether you are searching for an affordable starter home, a larger move-up property, a luxury residence, a low-maintenance townhome, an active-adult community, or a fully custom estate, there are builders and communities available throughout North Texas.
The best builder is not necessarily the company with the largest incentive, lowest advertised price, or most impressive model home.
The right choice depends on:
- Your budget
- Desired monthly payment
- Preferred location
- Construction timeline
- Included features
- Warranty
- Community taxes
- HOA expenses
- Builder reputation
- Long-term plans
Before signing a builder contract, compare the complete cost, understand the terms, complete independent inspections, and make sure someone is representing your interests.
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