What's changing around a new-home market, before the sales office mentions it.
New construction doesn't happen in isolation. Roads, schools, and retail shape a community's value as much as the homes do. These trackers follow what's actually funded and under way, sourced from public records, not rumor, and not a builder's brochure.
Reported by Pete Seider — ten years selling new construction in South Austin, Buda, Kyle, and San Marcos. About Pete →
One email a week. The whole market, read for buyers.
Every Friday: the scoreboard (rates, incentives, inventory), the deal of the week, a field note from a real site visit, one community worth a weekend, and the question to ask at the table. Independent, evidence-based, and free.
This Week Changed the Scoreboard
Builders are competing harder than they have all year, incentives up, unsold homes rising, rates slipping. Leverage has swung to ready buyers. Read the full issue, then get it in your inbox each Friday.
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Each report opens with what buyers need to know, then the deeper detail. Updated as the public record changes, with the last-verified date on the page.
The Standing Inventory Report
Why builders are sitting on a decade-high glut of finished homes, the national data, the builder fiscal-year incentive calendar, and how to turn it into buyer leverage.
Report · LiveRoadway & Infrastructure Tracker
What's being built or widened near growing communities, and the realistic timeline for it to matter. A road on a county map is not a road under construction, this is where you check the funding stage.
Read the tracker → Report · ComputedWhat $3,000 a Month Actually Buys
Five verified communities clear the bar, and the tax district swings the answer by $56,000 of house. Computed from verified rates, assumptions stated.
See the numbers → Desk · NewThe Affordability Desk
The verified price floor, five researched value builders, three head-to-head communities, and the four checks that keep a cheap sticker from becoming an expensive payment, all in one place.
Open the desk → Report · NewThe Entry-Level Price Floor
Where new-construction pricing actually starts right now, every verified sub-$300K advertised start in the metro, who builds there, and what the low number is really buying.
Read the report → Report · LiveNew Retail & Restaurants
What's opening near new-home corridors before it shows up in a builder's own marketing, the amenities that change daily life and resale.
Read the tracker →The reporting model, explained.
How New Home Dispatch reports, what gets tracked, how it's sourced, and why coverage stays separate from any future sponsored space.
Read Dispatch 001 →On-site coverage, coming soon.
Short video and photo dispatches from communities under construction. We won't feature Field Notes prominently until there's real footage to show, no placeholder content standing in for reporting that doesn't exist yet.
Video Walk-Throughs
On-site walks of active communities, narrated for buyers.
Photo Dispatches
What a community actually looks like right now, not in the renderings.
Fast Updates
Quick notes when something on the ground changes.
Following along in the meantime? Field Notes previews post to our YouTube and Instagram first.