Scott Felder Homes
Scott Felder Homes is an Austin-based builder with 10 active communities across the metro, backed by private-equity firm Platform Ventures and a 20-time Builder of the Year winner. 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.
Snapshot
| Detail | What we found | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership / sponsor | Sponsored by Platform Ventures, an independent private-equity firm (Kansas City, MO) managing $3.5B+ in assets across housing, logistics, and credit | (V) 🟢 |
| HQ / leadership | Steve Krasoff, President and CEO. HQ at 6414 River Pl Blvd #100, Austin, TX 78730 | (V) 🟢 |
| Communities in our market | 10 active communities across the Austin metro (2 additional Scott Felder communities, Mayfair and Willowbrook, are in the New Braunfels/San Antonio metro and excluded from this Austin count) | (V) 🟢 |
| Track record | Twenty-time “Builder/Volume Builder of the Year” — Texas Association of Builders, Home Builders Association of Greater Austin, Greater San Antonio Builders Association, and Austin Business Journal, spanning 2012–2024 | (V) 🟢 |
| Recent expansion | Acquired Olivia Clarke Homes (Dallas–Fort Worth) in May 2025 — Scott Felder’s first move into North Texas. Olivia Clarke keeps its own brand name and founder Jennifer Johnson stayed on | (V) 🟢 |
| Also operates | McStain Neighborhoods, a wholly-owned subsidiary building in Colorado, plus a San Antonio division | (V) 🟢 |
| Sitewide rate promo | “Rates as low as 3.99%*” badged on 7 of 10 Austin communities; the buydown structure is not disclosed on the listing pages. Our own sweep notes a previously-visible 3-2-1 temporary buydown detail (Southern Lending Services) has since dropped off the page | (BC) 🟡 |
| Tracked incentive #1 | $20,000 flex cash — logged in our Incentive Tracker as “largest Scott Felder flex,” re-confirmed 2026-07-27. Not tied to a specific community in the tracker record | (BC) 🟡 |
| Tracked incentive #2 | 4.99% rate or 6% flex cash — logged in our Incentive Tracker with no dollar figure and no specific community named | (BC) 🟡 |
| Site-wide tracker mismatch | A separate, static block previously on this page showed “$30,000, Headwaters, closing costs” — Scott Felder Homes does not build in Headwaters (confirmed against all 10 of the builder current Austin-area communities); flagged and removed in this rebuild | (O) 🟠 |
Where they're building (advertised starting prices)
| Community | City | Advertised from |
|---|---|---|
| Blackhawk | Pflugerville | $499,990 |
| Caliterra | Dripping Springs | $753,990 |
| Double Eagle Ranch | Cedar Creek | $645,990 |
| East View Farms | Georgetown | $388,990 |
| Flora | Hutto | $348,990 |
| Leander Estates | Leander | $799,990 |
| Riverstone | Georgetown | $773,990 |
| Santa Rita Ranch | Liberty Hill | $443,990 |
| The Colony | Bastrop | $387,990 |
| University Heights | Round Rock | $467,990 |
Advertised "from" prices, scottfelderhomes.com/communities/austin-area, retrieved 2026-08-03. Two additional Scott Felder communities (Mayfair, Willowbrook) are in the New Braunfels/San Antonio metro and excluded from this Austin-area table.
What we can verify — and what we haven't
The 10 Austin-area communities, their cities, and advertised starting prices, confirmed on Scott Felder Homes' own site the same day as this profile. Steve Krasoff's title as President and CEO, and the Platform Ventures sponsorship, confirmed via the builder's own published acquisition announcement. The 20-time Builder of the Year record, confirmed on the builder's own About page. The Olivia Clarke Homes acquisition (May 2025), confirmed via the builder's own site.
The "Rates as low as 3.99%*" eligibility terms and lender structure across the 7 badged communities. Which specific community either tracked incentive (the $20,000 flex cash or the 4.99%/6% flex) actually applies to — the tracker record does not name one.
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. Current quick-move-in inventory and pricing beyond the advertised "from" figures.
On the record — a stale figure removed from this page
Before this rebuild, this page carried a static "Current tracked offers" block showing "$30,000, Headwaters, Closing costs, observed Jul 20." Scott Felder Homes' own site lists no community called Headwaters among its 10 active Austin-area communities — Headwaters is a Liberty Hill master-planned community built by other, unrelated builders. This is the fifth time this exact pattern has surfaced across our builder profiles (after Del Webb, Anthem, Blackburn Homes, and Ashton Woods) — a leftover, unreconciled snapshot rather than a live offer, apparently baked into the same stub template used across multiple still-unbuilt builder pages. It has been removed here rather than repeated.
Money
Scott Felder Homes' 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.
Recent visits
| Date | Community | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | No New Home Dispatch field visit yet. This section will populate once a visit to a Scott Felder Homes community is completed. |
Coverage
None of Scott Felder Homes' 10 tracked Austin-area communities currently sit inside New Home Dispatch's Kyle/Buda/San Marcos/South Austin priority corridor — the closest, Caliterra (Dripping Springs), is in southwest Hays County but outside the corridor as we've defined it. Coverage spans the wider Austin metro: Pflugerville, Dripping Springs, Cedar Creek, Georgetown (x2), Hutto, Leander, Liberty Hill, Bastrop, and Round Rock.
Advantage: Scott Felder Homes is a well-established, award-winning Austin builder (20-time Builder of the Year) with institutional backing from Platform Ventures and 10 simultaneous active Austin-area communities, plus a recent expansion into North Texas via the Olivia Clarke Homes acquisition.
Limitation: the sitewide "Rates as low as 3.99%*" claim carries no disclosed structure on 7 of 10 community pages, our two tracked incentive records don't specify which community they apply to, and this page previously carried a stale, unrelated "Headwaters" figure that didn't match any real Scott Felder community — confirm actual terms in writing rather than trusting either the badge or an old tracker snapshot.
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