2025 Builder of the Year

From 27 homes in its first year to an expected 9,250 in 2025, Dream Finders Homes continues to build, grow, and thrive.

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Patrick Zalupski

2024 Builder of the Year

Closing 2023 with its stock debut, 1,383 home sales, and two home builder acquisitions, United Homes Group is on track for exponential growth.

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United Homes Group executive chairman Michael Nieri.

2023 Builder of the Year

With culture serving as its North Star, Ashton Woods has experienced significant growth while not losing what makes the company unique.

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CEO Ken Balogh, regional president Lindsay Motley, COO Ryan Lewis, and CFO Zack Sawyer in the Ashton Woods Studio, a space where designers help prospective buyers make their design selections.

2022 Builder of the Year

Going public has been a catalyst for California-based Landsea Homes’ rapid expansion to bring the builder’s forward-thinking, sustainable approach to more markets across the country.

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Landsea Homes' president chief operating officer Mike Forsum and CEO John Ho.

2021 Builder of the Year

Virginia-based Stanley Martin Homes is forging ahead with an ambitious market expansion goal that it plans to meet via organic growth and acquisition, one company at a time.

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Steve Alloy, president and CEO at Stanley Martin Homes.

2019 Builder of the Year

See how the company has evolved into one of America’s leading home builders.

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Keith Holdbrooks, Kevin Clayton, Mike Rutherford, and Tom Walsh (L to R) are guiding Clayton Homes to new heights.

2018 Builder of the Year

After inking home building’s deal of the century, the production builder doubles down on creating value for both itself and its customers, with a sharp focus on what comes next.

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2017 Builder of the Year

Operational excellence drives Horton's success.

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2016 Builder of the Year

Builder editorial director John McManus takes a deep dive into how CalAtlantic came to be and how the company will change the way the home building industry works.

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Scott Stowell (left) and Larry Nicholson (right)

2015 Builder of the Year

TRI Pointe Group says it’s home building’s ‘next generation;’ here's what that means. BUILDER editor John McManus goes inside for the story on how three still-young veterans masterminded meteoric growth and one of home building's largest acquisitions within the firm's first five years. TRI Pointe wins honors as the 2015 BUILDER of the Year.

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2014 Builder of the Year

An inside look at the strategic and tactical steps Toll Brothers took to land the $1.6 billion acquisition of Shapell Homes, double its California holdings, and transform itself into a multi-threat national player in for-sale and for-rent luxury housing.

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