Avid Ratings ®, Madison, Wisconsin, on Tuesday announced the winners of the 15th Annual Avid Awards in which home builders are recognized for scoring highest with their customers on home buying experience surveys.
This year’s program had 722 qualifying builders from all over the United States and Canada and covers home buyer data from January to December 2017.
“For 15 years, the Avid Awards have helped illustrate how builders are helping set the bar for home quality and customer service across North America,” said Paul Cardis, chief executive officer of Avid Ratings. “Our goal is to provide homeowners with the security that their builder will not only meet, but exceed, their homebuying expectations. The Avid Awards recognize those builders that deliver on that mark.”
Builders with the highest Avid Index Score in each category are presented with awards. Each award-winning company must score at or above the top 25th percentile in the United States or Canada to be recognized with an Avid Award.
And the winners are:
Avid Cup
The Avid Cup recognizes the single builder with the highest customer ratings across all surveys throughout North America, taken from contract signing through one year of home ownership.
2018 Avid Cup:
- SandStar Homes (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
Avid Diamond Award
The Avid Diamond Award recognizes builders with the highest scores in their nation on the New Home Move-In Experience survey, taken from purchasing experience to the first 90 days of ownership. The United States and Canada have one award each for Production, Small Volume and Custom builder categories.
Avid Diamond Award winners in the U.S. are as follows:
Avid Diamond Award – United States
- Production: Rausch Coleman Homes – Tulsa
- Small Volume: Mitchell & Best
- Custom: Brown Haven Homes
Avid Gold Award
Avid also distinguishes top building companies on a regional level with the Avid Gold Awards. This award is presented to builders with the highest scores in their region on the New Home Move-In Experience survey, taken from purchasing experience to the first 90 days of ownership.
Avid Gold Award winners in the five U.S. regions are as follows:
North Central Region
- Production: Mayberry Homes – Michigan
- Small Volume: Windsor Homes
Northeast Region
- Production: Keystone Custom Homes – West Region
- Small Volume: Brennan Builders
South Central Region
- Production: Meritage Homes – San Antonio
- Custom: Q5 Custom Homes
Southeast Region
- Production: Meritage Homes – Orlando
- Custom: Bryan Zecher Homes (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
West Region – Custom
- Production: Meritage Homes – Phoenix
- Small Volume: Woodhill Homes
- Custom: Estes Builders
Avid Benchmark Award
The Avid Benchmark Award recognizes any U.S. or Canadian builder scoring among the top 25 percent of Avid’s nationwide databases on the New Home Move-in Experience survey, taken from purchasing experience to the first 90 days of ownership. The winners of the Avid Benchmark Award in the United States are as follows:
North Central Region
- Production:
- AVB
- Tim O’Brien Homes – Milwaukee
- Veridian Homes
- Small Volume:
- Skogman Homes – Cedar Valley
- Traditions Building Group
Northeast Region
- Small Volume:
- The Green Company
South Central Region
- Production:
- Braselton Homes
- CareFree Homes
- Desert View Homes Las Cruces
- Desert View Homes Villa Valencia
- Ideal Homes
- Imagine Homes
- Meritage Homes – Austin
- Meritage Homes – Houston
- Rausch Coleman Homes – Little Rock
- Rausch Coleman Homes – OK City
Southeast Region
- Production:
- Meritage Homes – Raleigh
- Custom:
- American Eagle Builders (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- Andrew Arthur Homes (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- BCB Construction (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- Custom Craft Homes (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- Ernst Group (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- Hearthstone Luxury Homes (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- Monterey Bay – Charlotte (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- Nelson Homes (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- Plantation Housing Corp. (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
- R.W. Wilson Homes (An Independent Franchise of Arthur Rutenberg Homes)
West Region
- Production:
- Abrazo Homes
- BRIO
- Brookfield Residential Hawaii
- Hakes Brothers
- Meritage Homes – Northern California
- Meritage Homes – Southern California
- Meritage Homes – Tucson
- Richmond American – Northern California
- Richmond American – Southern California
- Richmond American – Tucson
