D.R. Horton
D.R. Horton has been the largest homebuilder in the U.S. by volume since 2002 — publicly traded (NYSE: DHI) and headquartered in Arlington, Texas. This profile is built from the builder's own site and the same daily incentive-tracking behind the Hot Sheet — not a field visit yet. See exactly what we've verified below.
| Detail | What we found | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Parent company | D.R. Horton, Inc. — publicly traded (NYSE: DHI), headquartered in Arlington, TX; the largest homebuilder in the U.S. by volume since 2002, building since 1978 | (BC) 🟡 |
| Captive verticals | DHI Mortgage (lending), DHI Title, DRH Insurance — all D.R. Horton-owned, offered alongside new-home purchases | (BC) 🟡 |
| Communities in our market | 10 communities identified on the builder's own Austin-area listing page (page 1 only — see note below) | (V) 🟢 |
| Priority-corridor communities | Prairie Lakes — Buda, TX 78640, from the $234,000s; Southgrove — Kyle, TX 78640, from the $285,000s | (V) 🟢 |
| Lowest advertised starting price found | Prairie Lakes (Buda) — from the $234,000s | (V) 🟢 |
| Tracked incentive — Palomino (Manor) | $6,518 temporary 2/1 rate buydown via DHI Mortgage, contract on/after 06/30/26, close by 08/31/26 — live and re-confirmed against the builder's own community page as of 2026-08-03 | (V) 🟢 |
| Tracked incentive — Kyle-Talavera / Manor-Carillon | $25,000 flex cash, close by 1/31/2027; our tracker records this at the submarket level, not tied to one specific community page | (BC) 🟡 |
| Expired incentives still logged (not removed) | $65,000 flex cash and a 3.99% FHA rate special, both tied to Manor-Carillon with a close-by date of June 30, 2026 that has passed; kept in the record marked expired rather than deleted | (O) 🟢 |
| Site tracker mismatch (this page, before rebuild) | Prior version of this page read "Active in 1 tracked community: Bar W Ranch" (Leander). Bar W Ranch does not appear among the 10 communities found on D.R. Horton's own Austin listing, and no D.R. Horton incentive record in our tracker references it — flagged and corrected in this rebuild | (O) 🟠 |
| Community | City | Advertised from |
|---|---|---|
| Prairie Lakes | Buda | $234,000s |
| Palomino | Manor | $257,000s |
| Frontier | Mustang Ridge | $264,000s |
| Durango | Mustang Ridge | $271,000s |
| Carillon | Manor | $281,000s |
| Southgrove | Kyle | $285,000s |
| Avery Centre | Round Rock | $298,000s |
| Trails at Wildhorse | Austin | $325,000s |
| Revelry | Del Valle | $335,000s |
| Monarch Ranch | Manor | $346,000s |
Advertised "from" price bands, drhorton.com/texas/austin, retrieved 2026-08-03 — page 1 of the builder's Austin listing only. The builder's own site states 377 new homes for sale within roughly a mile of Austin at the time of this research; pagination past page 1 did not load during this session, so additional D.R. Horton communities in the metro likely exist beyond this list. Treat this table as a partial, honestly-labeled snapshot, not a complete footprint.
The 10 communities, their cities, and advertised starting price bands, confirmed on D.R. Horton's own Austin listing page the same week as this profile. The Palomino temporary buydown's terms and dollar figure, confirmed directly against drhorton.com/texas/austin/manor/palomino. That Bar W Ranch does not appear among D.R. Horton's identified Austin-area communities.
"Building since 1978" and D.R. Horton's captive DHI Mortgage / DHI Title / DRH Insurance verticals (footer copy, not independently verified). The $25,000 Kyle-Talavera/Manor-Carillon flex-cash figure, which our tracker logs at the submarket level rather than a single confirmed community page.
Construction quality and sales-office practices firsthand — no field visit yet. BBB record for the Texas entity. HOA fees and MUD/PID or tax-district status for any of the 10 communities. Pages 2 and beyond of D.R. Horton's Austin listing, which likely contain additional communities not captured here.
Before this rebuild, this page stated D.R. Horton was "Active in 1 tracked community: Bar W Ranch," a Leander community. D.R. Horton's own Austin-market listings do not include Bar W Ranch among any community found in this rebuild's research, and no D.R. Horton-attributed record in NHD's incentive tracker references it. This looks like a data-linkage error from an earlier pass rather than a live claim — removed here rather than repeated. D.R. Horton's actual tracked incentive activity in our dataset centers on Palomino, Carillon, and the Kyle-Talavera submarket, all reflected above.
D.R. Horton's tracked incentives appear in the live widget below, pulled directly from the same Incentive Tracker data behind the Hot Sheet. For how these figures compare against other Austin-area builders, use the tools below.
| Date | Community | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | No New Home Dispatch field visit yet. This section will populate once a visit to Prairie Lakes (Buda) or Southgrove (Kyle), both inside our priority corridor, or another D.R. Horton community is completed. |
Prairie Lakes (Buda, 78640) and Southgrove (Kyle, 78640) sit inside New Home Dispatch's South Austin/Hays County priority coverage area. The remaining 8 identified communities — Austin, Del Valle, Manor (x3), Mustang Ridge (x2), and Round Rock — are outside that corridor, spread across the wider Austin metro.
Advantage: D.R. Horton is the largest homebuilder in the U.S. by volume, with a broad multi-submarket Austin footprint that includes two priority-corridor communities — Prairie Lakes in Buda and Southgrove in Kyle — and a currently-live, re-confirmed $6,518 buydown at Palomino.
Limitation: this profile captures only the first page of the builder's own Austin listings (10 communities); the builder's site references hundreds of homes for sale across the region, so the true community count is likely larger. Two previously-tracked incentives at Manor-Carillon expired June 30, 2026 and are logged as expired rather than removed. And this page's earlier "Bar W Ranch" community claim was a data-linkage error, now corrected.
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