New home builders in Austin

high $200s to over $5 million

MileStone is an Austin company, founded in 2009 and still privately held, and it describes itself as the largest privately held builder in the city. What actually sets it apart is range.

high $200s to mid $400s for Express and the core line, more for Emerald

D.R. Horton has been the largest homebuilder in America by volume since 2002, and it shows most in the affordable half of Austin's new-construction market.

high $300s to $700s and up

Perry Homes is one of Texas's largest privately held, family-owned builders, founded by Bob Perry in 1967 and still run out of Houston. In the Austin metro it is a fixture in the better master-planned communities, from Wolf Ranch and Parkside on the River in Georgetown to Santa Rita Ranch farther north.

$400s to $900s and up

David Weekley Homes is the largest privately held builder in the country, Houston-based and employee-owned, and it carries one of the strongest customer-service reputations in the industry, with repeat national satisfaction awards to show for it. Its LifeDesign approach leans on flexible floor plans and light-filled, livable layouts.

$350s to $700s and up

Highland Homes is a Dallas-based, Texas-only builder founded in 1985, with a strong Austin presence in communities like Bryson in Leander, Santa Rita Ranch, and Wolf Ranch. It has built brand loyalty on attractive, well-designed floor plans, a polished design-center experience with smart-home options, and consistent quality in the move-up segment.

$400s to well over $1M

Taylor Morrison is a large national builder that has been named America's Most Trusted homebuilder in buyer surveys for several years running. In Austin it spans move-up through luxury, with a presence in Travisso, Parkside on the River, Nolina, and other master plans.

$700s to $2.5M and up

Toll Brothers is America's leading luxury homebuilder, and in Austin it builds the high end of new construction, most visibly the dramatic Hill Country estates in Travisso. Its model is extensive personalization short of full custom: high-end structural options, elevated standard specs, and a design-studio experience that lets a buyer shape a luxury home without commissioning an architect.

high $200s to $500s, more in luxury sections

Lennar is one of the two largest homebuilders in the country, and around Austin it is one of the most visible names in production communities from Georgetown to the southern suburbs. Its signature is the Everything's Included approach: instead of a low base price and a long upgrade list, Lennar bundles popular features, appliances, and finishes into the price as standard.

high $200s (Centex) to $600s and up (Pulte), varies by brand

Pulte is the flagship brand of PulteGroup, and around Austin the family covers nearly the whole market through three names: Centex at the entry level, Pulte in the move-up range, and Del Webb for active-adult buyers, most visibly at Sun City Texas in Georgetown, one of the largest 55-plus communities in the country. That spread means the same parent builder can sell a first-time buyer in a Centex community and a retiree in a gated Del Webb, with very different homes and lifestyles under one corporate roof..

high $200s to $500s

Meritage Homes is a top-ten national builder that has staked its brand on energy efficiency more than any of its peers. In the Austin metro it builds value and move-up homes that come standard with features other builders treat as upgrades: spray-foam insulation, high-efficiency HVAC, better windows, and low HERS energy-rating scores, with some homes built solar and net-zero ready.

high $200s to low $400s

Brohn Homes is a Texas value builder, part of the Clayton Properties Group, that concentrates on the Austin and San Antonio markets. Around Austin it shows up most in the attainable eastern and southern communities, where it delivers brand-new homes at some of the lower price points in the metro, often with a generous list of included features for the money.

roughly $250s to $900s in Austin, more for custom

Coventry Homes is a Houston-based Texas builder that has put up more than 55,000 homes across Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio since 1988. Long one of the larger MHI (McGuyer Homebuilders) brands, it became part of the national Dream Finders Homes family when DFH acquired MHI in 2023.

roughly $250s to $600s in Austin

Dream Finders Homes is one of the fastest-growing homebuilders in the country, a Jacksonville-based public company (NYSE: DFH) founded in 2008 and named Builder magazine's 2025 National Builder of the Year. It expanded into Texas aggressively and, through its 2023 acquisition of Houston's MHI, now owns the Coventry, Plantation, and Wilshire brands as well.

high $200s to low $400s in the Austin metro

DRB Homes is the rebranded Dan Ryan Builders, a top-30 national homebuilder majority-owned by Japan's Sumitomo Forestry that has expanded into the Austin market on the value end. You will see it most in the affordable growth suburbs, where it is one of the opening builders in newer master plans like Sonterra in Jarrell and the big new Revelry community in Del Valle.

low $200s to low $400s in the Austin metro

LGI Homes is a publicly traded, high-volume national builder focused squarely on entry-level and first-time buyers, and it runs an unusual model: flat, non-negotiable pricing and a fixed CompleteHome finish package, with no design center and no upgrade menu. Every home comes with the same included features, appliances, landscaping, and blinds at one posted price.

high $200s to $600s in the Austin metro

Chesmar Homes is a Texas builder founded near Houston in 2005 and now owned by Japan's Sekisui House, with a wide Austin presence across roughly twenty communities. It spans a broad range, from attainable homes in the high $200s to larger move-up homes in the $500s and $600s, and it is a frequent builder in the metro's better master plans, including Sweetwater, Parkside on the River, and Santa Rita Ranch.

high $250s to the $600s in the Austin metro

Pacesetter Homes is one of Austin's most prolific local builders, launched here in 2007 as the Texas arm of the Canadian company Qualico and responsible for more than 5,300 homes across the metro. It spans entry-level to first-move-up, with homes generally from the high $250s to the $600s across more than a dozen communities, and it is a fixture in amenity-rich master plans like Easton Park and the net-zero Whisper Valley.