Service Areas

We build in Houston and across the counties around it: Harris, Montgomery, Waller, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Liberty, Austin and Galveston. The Houston metro area alone counts about 7.9 million people across ten counties, so the land and the rules change a lot from one side of the region to the other.

North: pines and sandy ridges

Montgomery County, with Conroe as its county seat, covers about 1,077 square miles and part of the Sam Houston National Forest. It has grown fast, from about 620,000 residents in 2020 to an estimated 781,000 in 2025. Much of the land here is the Conroe soil series, which has its type location in the county: loamy fine sand on top over sandy clay loam and clay with plinthite, slow permeability, and a natural cover of shortleaf, longleaf and loblolly pine with sweetgum and oak. Lots often need tree clearing and careful septic design.

West and southwest: the prairie

Waller, western Harris, Fort Bend and Austin counties take in the Katy Prairie and the flat rice and cattle country beyond it. The thick, dark soils on the region's outskirts were good enough for rice farming, and heavy clays like the Lake Charles series shrink, crack and swell with the seasons. Barker and Addicks reservoirs west of the city hold floodwater from the upper Buffalo Bayou basin, a reminder of how slowly this ground drains.

South and the coast: Brazoria and Galveston

Toward Galveston Bay and the Gulf, land is low and flat and close to storm surge and tropical rain. Pad height, wind design for the frame and your flood zone carry extra weight in these counties.

East: Liberty County and the Big Thicket edge

East of Houston, toward the Trinity River and the Big Thicket to the northeast, rural lots mix wooded land and wet bottoms. Drainage, driveway access and clearing are usually the first questions.

Permits differ by jurisdiction

Houston is the largest U.S. city without formal zoning, and Harris County cannot impose zoning under Texas law; it applies floodplain rules during subdivision and permit approvals. Inside the City of Houston, a 2018 rule requires new homes to be elevated two feet above the 500-year floodplain. Septic systems are permitted through a local authorized agent of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which can be a county or other local government. Deed restrictions and HOAs can still limit metal-sided homes, so we check the documents on your land before design starts.