Pacesetter Homes
Pacesetter Homes Texas is the Austin-founded, entry-to-mid price band builder in the QUALICO family. 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 | Founded in Austin in 2007 by QUALICO, a family-owned Canadian homebuilding and development company marking 75 years in business as of 2026. Dual Austin/Pflugerville and Dallas/McKinney headquarters; expanded to Dallas in 2018 and Fort Worth in 2022. | (V) 🟢 |
| Captive services | No captive lender or title company found on the builder's own site — references "Preferred Lenders" as partner organizations rather than owned subsidiaries | (O) 🟢 |
| Communities in our market | 2 officially tracked communities (Whisper Valley, Easton Park — both Manor); 10 additional named communities found via a third-party listing aggregator, not yet verified against the builder's own site or added to our tracker | (BC) 🟡 |
| Priority-corridor communities identified | 3, all via the third-party aggregator, none yet officially tracked: Trace (San Marcos), Blanco Vista (San Marcos), Crosswinds (Kyle) | (BC) 🟡 |
| Current inventory | 75 quick move-in homes counted on the builder's own Austin-area site, Jul 25, 2026 | (O) 🟢 |
| Starting price span (tracked communities) | $290K–$310K across Whisper Valley and Easton Park, per our existing tracked data; a third-party aggregator lists Whisper Valley from $247,900 and Easton Park from $479,900, which we haven't reconciled against those figures | (V) 🟢 |
| Tracked incentive — closing costs | $10,000 closing-cost credit; contract window Jul 16–Aug 3, 2026, close by Aug 15, 2026; re-confirmed live Aug 3, 2026, the most recently confirmed incentive of any builder in this batch | (BC) 🟢 |
| Community | City | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Whisper Valley | Manor | Tracked |
| Easton Park | Austin (Manor/SE Austin) | Tracked · also built by David Weekley, Highland, Brookfield, Perry, Taylor Morrison |
| Trace | San Marcos | Priority corridor · not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Blanco Vista | San Marcos | Priority corridor · not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Crosswinds | Kyle | Priority corridor · not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Orchard Ridge | Liberty Hill | Not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Avery Centre | Round Rock | Not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Center 45 | Round Rock | Not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Cool Water at Sonterra | Jarrell | Not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Saddle Creek Twinhomes | Georgetown | Not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Village at Manor Commons | Manor | Not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
| Grande Estates | Bertram | Not yet tracked, aggregator-sourced |
We could not load the builder's own community-listing page directly during this research pass (it returned an error), so this expanded list comes from a third-party aggregator rather than pacesetterhomestexas.com itself — treat it as a lead to verify, not a confirmed fact, until we can check the builder's own site directly.
QUALICO's ownership and 2007 Austin founding, and the company's 75-year history, from the builder's own about page. The 75 quick-move-in count, counted directly on the builder's inventory page. The $10,000 closing-cost credit, re-confirmed live as recently as Aug 3, 2026 — the freshest confirmation of any builder in this batch.
The 10 additional community names, cities, and starting prices — sourced from a third-party listing aggregator, not the builder's own site, because that site returned errors during this research pass.
Construction quality and sales-office practices firsthand — no field visit yet. BBB record for the Texas entity. Direct confirmation of the 10 aggregator-sourced communities against the builder's own site.
Pacesetter's tracked incentive appears in the live widget below, pulled directly from the same Incentive Tracker data behind the Hot Sheet. For how this figure compares 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 Whisper Valley, Easton Park, or another Pacesetter community is completed. |
Neither of Pacesetter's 2 officially tracked communities sits inside New Home Dispatch's South Austin/Kyle/Buda/San Marcos priority corridor. Three aggregator-sourced, not-yet-verified communities (Trace/San Marcos, Blanco Vista/San Marcos, Crosswinds/Kyle) would fall inside it if confirmed — worth a direct check in a future pass.
Advantage: Pacesetter is a stable, decades-backed builder (QUALICO, 75 years) with an Austin-founded history and the freshest re-confirmed incentive of any builder we reviewed in this batch ($10,000 closing costs, confirmed Aug 3).
Limitation: our verified community coverage is thin (2 of a possibly 12-community footprint), the expanded list rests on a third-party aggregator we couldn't cross-check against the builder's own site, and the incentive's contract window is narrow enough to require a fresh check before relying on it.
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