Sitterle Homes
Sitterle Homes is a privately held builder founded in San Antonio in 1964, now active in Georgetown, Liberty Hill, and Bastrop. This profile is built from the builder's own site and third-party review aggregators — not a field visit yet. BBB's own rating could not be confirmed and reputation data available is thin and largely San Antonio-specific. See exactly what we've verified below.
| Detail | What we found | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1964 in San Antonio by Frank Sitterle. Acquired from the founder in 2005 by Jeff Buell and Frank Sitterle, Jr., who remain the current owners — found only in the builder's own copy, not independently corroborated. No evidence found of any affiliation with a larger national builder group; appears genuinely independent. | (V) 🟢 / (BC) 🟡 |
| Headquarters and reach | San Antonio-based; operates in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Kerrville metros, plus multi-family and commercial work. No confirmed Austin-area design-center street address. | (V) 🟢 |
| Communities in our market | 9 active or coming-soon sections identified directly on the builder's own live communities page, across Georgetown, Liberty Hill, and Bastrop. Our prior internal notes listed "Belterra" as a Sitterle community — both Belterra sections we found are confirmed sold out/no longer available and do not appear on the builder's current site. Removed from this profile. | (V) 🟢 |
| Priority-corridor communities identified | 2 — Santa Rita Ranch Estate Homes and ClearWater Ranch, both in Liberty Hill. Georgetown sections (Parmer Ranch, Cimarron Hills) sit in Williamson County but outside our named corridor cities. | (V) 🟢 |
| Starting price span (identified communities) | Mid-$400s (Parmer Ranch Cottages, Georgetown) to $1M+ (Santa Rita Ranch Estate Homes, Liberty Hill; Cimarron Hills The Cottages, Georgetown, coming soon). | (V) 🟢 |
| BBB record | Could not confirm. BBB blocks automated access to Sitterle's profile page and no rating, accreditation status, or complaint count could be reliably pulled. Recommend a manual BBB check before treating any letter grade as fact. | 🟠 unverified |
| Other reputation signals | Birdeye (San Antonio) 1.4/5 across 12 reviews; Birdeye (Cedar Park) shows 0 reviews, unclaimed. A third-party complaint aggregator lists roughly 7 complaints citing customer-service/communication issues, unresolved code-violation items, incomplete punch-list work, and an HVAC unit installed in an easement without authorization. All samples are small and not Austin-specific — treat as directional, not a verdict. | (V) 🟡 / (BC) 🟠 |
| Preferred lender | Smart Choice Mortgage, with a named Austin-based loan originator. Advertises conventional, VA, FHA, USDA, and non-conforming loans, and closing in as few as 21 days on spec homes. | (V) 🟢 |
| Warranty | 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty for current homes: 1 year workmanship/materials, 2 years systems, 10 years structural, transferable, backed and administered by 2-10 — a genuine third-party backstop, not self-administered. A legacy StrucSure warranty applies only to homes that closed before May 1, 2018 and is not relevant to a buyer purchasing today. | (V) 🟢 |
| Tracked incentive | The 4.99% rate special we previously tracked, requiring a contract by 12/31/2025, is confirmed expired — that page still displays leftover seasonal "March Madness" imagery, a further staleness signal. The offer that is actually live today is an undated "Final Inventory Event" price cut on move-in-ready homes across Austin, Houston, and San Antonio; the only itemized dollar example on the page is a San Antonio home, with no Austin-specific figure confirmed. | (V) 🟢 |
| Community | City | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Rita Ranch – Estate Homes | Liberty Hill | From $1M+ · priority corridor |
| ClearWater Ranch | Liberty Hill | From mid-$800s · priority corridor |
| Parmer Ranch 60' | Georgetown | From low-$600s |
| Parmer Ranch Cottages | Georgetown | From mid-$400s |
| Cimarron Hills – Villas & Country Club | Georgetown | From low-$600s |
| Cimarron Hills – Ranges & Reserves | Georgetown | Coming soon, price TBA |
| Cimarron Hills – The Cottages | Georgetown | From $1M+ · coming soon |
| The Colony – Driscoll Bluffs | Bastrop | From low-$600s |
| The Colony – Pine Cove | Bastrop | From mid-$400s |
Belterra – The Cove at San Saba and Belterra – Seneca Trails, both previously tracked, are confirmed sold out and no longer on Sitterle's own communities page. Removed from active listing.
Founding year (1964) and current independent ownership structure. All 9 active/coming-soon community names, cities, and starting prices, read directly from the builder's own live site today. The 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty structure and third-party backing. The expired status of the 4.99% rate special and what has replaced it.
The 2005 ownership-buyout names (Jeff Buell, Frank Sitterle Jr.) — sourced only to the builder's own about-us copy. Whether the Final Inventory Event price cut has an Austin-specific dollar figure — only a San Antonio example is itemized.
BBB rating, accreditation status, and complaint count — blocked from automated access, needs a manual check. Construction quality and sales-office practices firsthand — no field visit yet.
Sitterle'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 a Sitterle Homes community is completed. |
2 of Sitterle's 9 identified Central Texas sections sit inside New Home Dispatch's South Austin/Kyle/Buda/San Marcos priority corridor: Santa Rita Ranch Estate Homes and ClearWater Ranch, both in Liberty Hill. The rest sit in Georgetown and Bastrop, outside the core corridor.
Advantage: Sitterle carries a genuine 60-year operating history, real independent ownership, a third-party-backed 2-10 warranty, and two active priority-corridor communities in Liberty Hill.
Limitation: BBB's own rating could not be confirmed, available third-party review data is thin and mostly San Antonio-specific rather than Austin-specific, and the builder's own site is currently running an expired rate promotion alongside an undated replacement offer with no confirmed Austin-specific dollar figure.
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