It's been a bit over 2 years since our home addition work with Newcastle completed. We contracted…read morewith them to build a ~700sqft addition and pool to our home. I've been in the real estate industry for about 15 years and we were demanding clients. Newcastle listened to our concerns and provided excellent guidance regarding design, architecture and all considerations at every step of the process. They used quality materials and skilled contractors who, while we noted weren't the cheapest, we're appreciating the quality of the construction and finish now that we're several years post-build. I would certainly recommend Newcastle for an addition or remodel for an existing home.

I've been a fan of Lex and his home building team for years. They set the tone for unique homes…read morewith personality -- usually when I see a cool home in Austin, it always turns out to be built by Newcastle homes. And so I was thrilled to hear that they are doing remodeling and took advantage. They turned my plain box house into one that looks like i custom built it from day one. What a transformation. Thanks so much for being awesome and transparent throughout the process.

We bought a Paradisa home in February of 2015. We love the house, the layout, the quality of the…read morebuild and the style. They have been so great every step of the way over the last few years. Every person they have working for them has been incredibly responsive and has done quality work. We highly recommend them as a builder!

My initial impression of Paradisa Homes was not very favorable as evidenced by my first review…read more However, given new developments and courteous assistance from the company's owners themselves, I felt it necessary to revise my review to highlight their most attentive help in resolving all the construction issues with the home. Shortly after purchasing my home, a series of miscommunications and oversights lead to prolonged delays in addressing some minor unfinished repairs that stemmed from post-construction mishaps and damages, which were later revealed to be no fault of the builder. Additionally, certain design elements of the driveway made it impossible to utilize the parking garage. Both of these issues made for an inconvenient and frustrating initial few months of home ownership. But eventually, my concerns caught the attention of the company's two primary partners, Ed and Thomas. Once the issues were explained in detail over several email exchanges, they were more than willing to accommodate my repair requests and even went so far as to redesign my driveway, which they were really under no obligation to do so. After speaking with Ed and Thomas, it became apparent that they are both genuinely concerned in making sure their clients are thoroughly satisfied with their homes and that any issues be dealt with in a timely manner. I believe my case was entirely the result of a breakdown in communication within the companies various departments and in no way a reflection of how they conduct business. I don't believe that it was the intent of Paradisa Homes to delay addressing my home's repairs had upper management been made initially aware. Ed and Thomas have been nothing more than courteous and accommodating during these past few weeks. And my frustration has given way to genuine gratitude for their utmost professionalism.

After several positive experiences with other GC's, we decided to try Urban Home Builders because…read moreour normal GC was not available for our backyard remodel/landscaping. After a consultation with Gary, it became apparent he could not read our landscape architects' plans and was quick to lay fault on said plans. The lack of comprehension and professionalism swayed us to wait until our GC was available, sometimes you have to be smart and know when to say 'No'.

We contracted with Urban Home Builders and Gary Zygmont for a complete renovation of our 1940's…read morecottage. This was no run-of-the-mill job ... Gary and his team took our house down to the studs, destroyed and rebuilt the back 1/3 of the house to replace a crappy patio foundation that had been closed in at some point by previous owners, and added a second level. From the get-go, we had a stellar experience with Gary. During our introductory meeting, he spent as much time as we needed talking with us about our project, his process, and the way he does business, and did an exceptional job of setting our expectations up front. His ballpark estimate was right in line with the other bid we obtained, which immediately gave us confidence in his estimating. We signed with him without hesitation. About a month before the project was set to start, I realized I had completely lost my mind ... it was a *terrible* idea to move out of my home for 7 months. I was too chicken to call Gary on the phone, so I sent him an email telling him that I thought we should delay the project for at least 6 months because I just couldn't deal with it. Like the best therapist, Gary listened with compassion and then broke down my monumental, paralyzing mountain of stuff that had to be accomplished into its most basic elements. "I know it doesn't feel like it, but you're almost done with the hard work," he told us. He sent a list of what we needed to do, with deadlines (this is something he did countless times during the project, which was great!), and helped me get a grip. Much to my husband's relief, the project proceeded as planned. Did I mention that we expected to be out of our home for 7 months? Gary finished almost 2 months early. How? In my opinion, it's because he respects and watches out for his subs, and they return the favor by moving mountains to get stuff done for him. It was truly a joy to watch -- at one point during the project, one of our neighbors remarked that there were almost always people at our house, and they were *always* working. Speaking of our neighbors, living next to a project like ours can be a nightmare. Gary walked the neighborhood before the project started, talked with our neighbors about what to expect, and left letters with each neighbor with his personal contact information. I know of two times during the project when neighbors had complaints ... in both cases, Gary immediately -- and very diplomatically -- addressed them. Now that we're back in our gorgeous "new" home and we've paid the last bill, Gary's level of service hasn't faltered a bit. We've reached out to him with a couple questions and issues, and he has responded immediately, reached out to subs or vendors as necessary, and obtained exactly the "fixes" we believe are necessary - at no cost to us. The workmanship throughout our home is absolutely gorgeous, and the materials are of excellent quality and exactly as specified by us and our architect. He even added a number of "Gary-isms," such as rebuilding a fence for us (not in the contract -- we had planned to have him reinstall the old fence) because it faces the street and the old fence would have looked terrible against our shiny house. I can't recommend Gary and Urban Home Builders enough.

Absolutely, a pleasure to work with. Very informative and knowledgeable. Great value compared to…read moreother builders visited.

I signed a contract with Coventry for a house (not a custom build). I was traveling and outside the…read morecountry. My realtor saw the house and assured me that it was an amazing house with small issues (smaller breakfast area). So I signed without touring the house in person. After I was back to country, I went to tour the house and saw that all the bedrooms rooms upstairs were really small, to the point that if you put queen bed you have around 1.5 feet space on one side to walk. This is the largest bedroom room upstairs, all other bedrooms are even smaller. I immediately informed the realtor and we started taking with our Sales person from Coventry at Sauls Ranch. I had paid 3% earnest money, which is 27,000$. First he told us our earnest money is transferable as long as we pick a inventory home. So we like one house, from inventory, and asked to move the money. Then he comes back and says now even with inventory homes you will loose 1% of your 3% earnest money (9000$) and cannot negotiate price of the house. The original house I paid for, had a 40 foot yard, backed into green belt, was on a Cul-De-Sac, was 3,212 sq ft. The new one I liked was 2877 sqft, no Cul-de-sac, backed into a road, smaller yard. So now I was expected to buy this new house which is much worse than what I paid for, for 921,000$. My original house was 900,000$. After I threatened to leave and buy with someone else, they finally came down to 885k$, which is still much higher than any house of this size on market. So essentially I am their hook, so they can ask for any amount of money or will just take my earnest money, 27k$ in cash, make no effort to make it work. This is my experience with them. Finally Coventry made no effort to make it work, finally I had the option to stay with them, buy an overpriced house (overpriced by 25k$ as per market rates) or walk away and loose 27k$ (and stay in a poorly designed home). They responded to my review by saying my concerns have been forwarded to management, but no effort to contact me. Beware! Their sales agent will mention a really low price during showing of the house, but as soon as you make an offer, the price will go up. If you put more earnest money, they have all leverage and will refuse to corporate with you. Never give them more than 1%. They will make up things like: "on new builds we ask for 4% since people will make offer on multiple homes". Reality is no buyer is going around putting 10k$ on multiple homes. Its a tool used by builder to assert leverage.

Daniel designed our custom home in a gated community outside of Austin in the Hill Country. We was…read moreimpressed with his architectural vision from the beginning and after 10 in-person meetings ( 3 in person and 6 via zoom ) we had a fully developed architectural 3D model that we give you from all sides. Daniel was very generous with his time and since we have quite a few impressive views we wanted to capture all of the views perfeand all of the Hill Country ambiance

5 star Architect for a reason!…read more Daniel has an architectural approach that I believe people will find very rare and refreshing these days. He is very giving of his time, knowledge, and is the most collaborative of the 3 Architects we have used on the 2 other custom homes we have built. As an example, even before we signed a contract he made multiple site visits to give us his friendly professional insight about several lots we were considering before we selected the property we ultimately purchased. He was extremely accommodating and friendly throughout the entire process. Collaboration is his priority from the beginning and he made it very convenient through the use of screen share as we designed the home together. We were really impressed with the architectural 3D model that Daniel created. It was amazing that we were able to have a computer-generated 3D model to visualize the complete exterior as well as the outdoor entertaining, outdoor kitchen, and the pool and spa area. We were able to have the majority of our meetings in the evenings after we got off work and we even did a screen share to collaborate on our laptop while we were out of town visiting family. Not only is he extremely knowledgeable about both the architectural and contractual aspects of building, but he seems to have a great instinct for what the client is looking achieve. He also had the desire to study alternatives and create several layouts that might make the most sense for the lifestyle we described. Our custom home is amazing and we would definitely recommend him to our friends. We enjoyed the process of the architectural design of our custom home and even more surprisingly we enjoyed the building process that is often stressful. Instrumental in our smooth building process was Daniel's custom home building budget that he accurately laid out from the beginning giving us many options and associated costs. Daniel's project management and selection of the builder really took confusion out of the process and stress off of our lap. Other critical details that made build successful was his guidance and assistance with the interior design, kitchen, and bath design, and selection of all of our interior finishes and fixtures. Our kitchen and bathrooms really stand out with exceptional design and we are very grateful for that. All in all the 3% that he charged to be a complete steward of our project was an easy decision. We will definitely be using him in the future and so will our friends that are very impressed with our the result as well as our highly detailed and accurate design and building process.

Very nice model homes and pleasant staff. Developments are well planned and have great…read morearchitectural features.

While, I am NOT a customer of a Drees home, thankfully, I have dealt with their lack of…read moreprofessionalism. My husband and I bought a home in the Grange community in Katy, TX. This is not a complaint about our home, as this is a complaint about their construction workers and their upper management. Since, March, when I bought my car, I have had 4 flat tires. Drees Homes are the ONLY houses that have gone up around us and no other builder. All of the Westin homes have been built and sold! I brought up the concern of constant flat tires and the nails we have picked up ourselves up to the HOA Management and they told me to contact Drees. I didn't hear from anyone for over 3 weeks after numerous email, calls, and voicemails left. I finally heard back. The Area Construction Manager stated they will tighten up on their crews and enforce better clean up, but they cannot and will not take responsibility for any of the flat tires myself or the rest of the neighbors have experienced. They said the nail could have come from anywhere. (I have had to drive past the Drees home while under construction in order to get to my home. All these flats have happened immediately after passing their builds.) I am thankful that we didn't purchase a home as they can't even and won't take responsibility of their crews. To add, we actively saw one of their crews drinking Coronas on the jobsite and were hammering in a board to fit into an area where they cut the board incorrectly. I would strongly suggest staying away from these builders. They can't even compensate tires let alone what may come up in your future build.

From the moment that we set foot in the sales office of Brightland homes (then Gehan homes) we were…read moreamazed at the level of communication that we received. We started our build back in December of 2020 and our home was done in exactly six months, in June of 2021. We had two home inspections done by an independent inspector, and although no major concerns came back they were very prompt and attentive to our warranty requests. Even after our home was finished the on-site manager kept in touch with us and kept communication open. A few minor issues came around (nothing major, just some caulk fill-ins and paint touches) and they were always very quick to respond. Fast forward to today, when I discovered that I had a leak on my water main. Within ten minutes they had sent someone out to fix it up, and even though it was technically out of warranty they still took care of it because it might not have been installed absolutely correctly. In this day and age of houses being thrown up every hour and subpar standards and practices, I'm so thankful that we've gotten so lucky these past few years. I can't recommend Brightland enough, and I hope that everyone has an experience as pleasant as ours!

This used to be Gehan homes a predatory sorry excuse for a builder that built homes that werent…read moreEVER suitable to be lived in. Lies were told houses were falling apart right at move in. Ant infestations, cracked foundations, gardens full of rocks and trash and soda cans that no landscaping would survive in after planted, visibly literal wavy drywall hallways, nails popping out everywhere, walls cracking across entire rooms, the entire house plumbing flooded our first night in our house when someone tried to shower. Water came from tubs and toilets and flooded the house. Light fixtures werent hung evenly over bathroom mirrors, tried to open a window and spring popped out and almost cut my finger completely off!! Ants infested our house from day 1 until we moved out. Was told the community pool would be put in the summer we moved in and it still wasnt put in 7 years later. The project manager of the community lived in the neighborhood when we moved in and he built his house completely to obviously better standards and even took landscaping plants and trees from other properties to put in his own yard. The houses started falling apart so bad people were showing up at his house and he moved completely from the neighborhood because of it. They were giving loans through bank of america to people who shouldnt have qualified and kept these people approving move in nspection walk thrus aggressively threatening to pull out your approval if you didnt!!! Stay far away from these people, they changed their name but cant hide from the internet, look up Gehan homes especially Stone Creek Ranch in Fort Worth Tx

I had a lot of custom requests for my bedroom and bathroom renovation/makeover and Enso Homes was…read moreone of the few companies who really took their time with me to provide not only the most comprehensive bid with total clarity, but Alix also gave great guidance when picking out materials. She helped me with the flooring, lighting fixtures, bathroom vanity, just everything really and she introduced me to Non-VOC paints and there was no terrible paint smell or chemicals that give me a headache when they were painting or during the drying process. The wood work was done by a very talented young man named David that they have on their team and he is very skilled, puts the finishing touch on the room. They kept in touch with me daily and Alix stopped by several times to cehck on the progress, she brought me flowers and a beautiful gift basket with a massage gift card because she knows the renovation process can be stressful when you are living in your home! I highly recommend them.

From the owner: Enso is a planning-first remodeling company serving Austin and surrounding areas. We help…read morehomeowners avoid delays and budget surprises by clarifying scope, timeline, and investment before construction begins. Our work includes kitchen and bathroom remodels, whole-home renovations, and home additions. We’re thoughtful about materials and construction methods, prioritizing durable, low-toxicity, and mold-resistant materials while being intentional about where spending matters most. Our approach is built on The 13-Day Design Plan℠, a structured process that brings clarity to design, feasibility, materials, and budget early so projects are organized, and actually go as planned.