Anthem
See Anthem on the map →Kyle, TX · FM 150 corridor, southern Hays County — a 422-acre master-planned community with four active builders, framed by the Mustang Branch greenbelt and a City of Austin nature preserve. This profile is built from the developer's own site, each 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthem Texas — master-plan developer for the community | (V) 🟢 |
| Location | FM 150, Kyle, TX 78640, southern Hays County | (V) 🟢 |
| Size at build-out | 422 acres; roughly 1,500 single-family homes planned | (BC) 🟡 |
| Active builders | Four — Brightland Homes, Clark Wilson Builder, Newmark Homes, Risewell Homes | (V) 🟢 |
| Starting prices | Vary by builder: Clark Wilson Builder's Anthem Cottages from the low $300s; Newmark Homes from the mid $300s; Risewell Homes from the upper $200s to $1M+; Brightland Homes lists early phases as sold out/closed out, with current pricing not posted | (BC) 🟡 |
| Schools | Hays CISD — Jim Cullen Elementary (onsite, 873 Anthem Parkway), Barton Middle School, Hays High School | (V) 🟢 |
| Amenities | Central Park Amenity Center; trail system along the Mustang Branch greenbelt; 30%+ permanently protected open space; borders a roughly 250-acre City of Austin nature preserve | (BC) 🟡 |
| Tracked incentive | NHD's own Incentive Tracker currently shows "D.R. Horton · Anthem, $25,000" — we think this is a mapping error, see below | (BC) 🟠 |
The FM 150 / southern Hays County location. The current four-builder roster — Brightland Homes, Clark Wilson Builder, Newmark Homes, and Risewell Homes — confirmed against Anthem's own developer site. The specific Hays CISD schools (Jim Cullen Elementary, Barton Middle School, Hays High School), confirmed on Newmark Homes' own Anthem community page. The Central Park Amenity Center name and the community's border with a City of Austin preserve.
The 422-acre and ~1,500-home build-out figures, and the "30%+ permanently protected open space" figure, come from Anthem's own marketing copy and haven't been checked against Hays County plat or permitting records. Starting-price bands come from each builder's own site and can move without notice; Brightland Homes' current phase status ("Model Home Close-out," an earlier phase marked "SOLD OUT!") suggests its pricing page may be stale.
HOA fee amount. Effective property tax rate, including whether any part of Anthem sits in a MUD or PID (not stated on any builder or developer page we found). Current lot availability and quick move-in inventory for any of the four builders. Construction quality firsthand — we have not made a field visit yet.
As of this profile's publish date, New Home Dispatch's Incentive Tracker lists a live offer attributed to "D.R. Horton · Anthem" ($25,000, flex cash). We can't confirm this is real. D.R. Horton's own site lists no community named Anthem anywhere — its current Kyle communities are Southgrove, Talavera, Marigold, and Paramount — and Anthem's own developer site lists a completely different, non-overlapping builder roster (Brightland Homes, Clark Wilson Builder, Newmark Homes, Risewell Homes). This looks like a community-name collision in our own sweep data rather than a real D.R. Horton incentive at this community. We're flagging it here on the record rather than quietly dropping it; correcting the underlying tracker entry is a separate step from this profile and hasn't been done yet.
We're not currently displaying a live tracked-incentive widget on this page while we sort out the D.R. Horton mapping issue above. For verified, up-to-date incentive data across the market, use the tools below.
| Date | Builder | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | No New Home Dispatch field visit yet. This section will populate once a visit to Anthem is completed. |
Anthem sits in Kyle, within New Home Dispatch's South Austin / Hays County priority coverage area.
Advantage: Anthem is one of the widest single-community builder comparisons we track in the Kyle corridor — four builders in one master plan spanning starter cottage homes to $1M+, plus a real amenity and greenbelt draw backed by an adjacent City of Austin preserve.
Limitation: no confirmed HOA fee or property-tax rate yet, and our own tracker currently shows a builder (D.R. Horton) that doesn't appear to actually build here — treat that $25,000 figure with real skepticism until it's corrected.
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