Finding Your Perfect Piece of the Twin Cities: Our Lot Sourcing Service for Your New Home

When you’re building your dream home from the ground up, the lot you choose is just as important as the house itself. Afterall, it’s your lot that determines your access to schools, your daily commute, and how close you live to the amenities you and your family rely on. Every lot can also come with a different set of environmental quirks, zoning restrictions, and set back requirements, impacting what can actually be built there.

Assessing all these factors and weighing lots against one another can be a huge source of stress if you’re trying to do it on your own. That’s why, at Country Joe Homes, we offer expert lot sourcing services to support our homeowners. Read on to learn how community sales managers, zoning expertise, and our semi-custom approach to Twin Cities new home construction work together to make your lot sourcing journey as easy and stress-free as possible.

What Are Lot Sourcing Services?

In many ways, lot sourcing is just like a traditional real estate hunt. However, it also poses some unique challenges. These include a relatively low inventory compared to pre-built properties, and the outsized impact that zoning and regulatory restrictions have on your decision.

Identifying Existing Opportunities

Generally, our community sales managers start by first identifying what existing lot opportunities there are in your preferred neighborhoods. If you haven’t yet settled on a preferred neighborhood, we can help you narrow that selection down as well. Once the existing inventory is defined, we’ll explore those opportunities with you to see which, if any, fit your needs.

Monitoring for New Listings

If no existing lots fit the bill, we will monitor the market for you, watching for new lot listings in your desired neighborhoods. This can be one of the hardest tasks to keep up with all on your own, since new listings in popular neighborhoods tend to move very fast. Constant monitoring, sometimes on multiple channels, is necessary to give you the best opportunity to catch your perfect lot as soon as it becomes available.

Analyzing Lot Characteristics

Finally, we’ll analyze the unique characteristics of each lot you consider. This will help you compare what can be built in each location, based on both its natural features and regulatory stipulations.

How to Secure Your Dream Lot for a Custom Home

While our lot sourcing services definitely take the stress out of the process, there are still certain steps to securing a lot that only you can do. These steps that you need to complete as the prospective homeowner are:

1. Define your must-haves, nice-to-haves, and deal breakers. Much like any other house hunt, your realtor needs to know what you’re looking for from your lot. Sometimes this takes seeing a few different options to hammer out, and that’s fine. Just do your best to clearly define what you like and don’t like about each option you view. The more detail you can give about your preferences, the better!
2. Identify your preferred neighborhoods. Like we mentioned above, this is something we can assist with if you don’t have any parameters in mind already. By narrowing the search to a few specific communities, you will help ensure that no ideal lot listings go unexamined, and no opportunities get missed.
3.  Move decisively (but strategically) when you find a lot you love. Because lots in competitive neighborhoods tend to get snapped up quickly, it’s important to have your ducks in a row. We can help ensure you have your realtor in place and any necessary funding pre-approved. That leaves the information that only you can prepare: what you’re willing to negotiate on, and when you’re comfortable walking away from an opportunity.

Find Your Dream Lot with Country Joe Homes

Country Joe Homes has helped source new home lots in many of the Greater Twin Cities most desirable neighborhoods including Lakeville, Inver Grove Heights, Farmington, Prior Lake, Burnsville, and Eagan.

By sourcing your lot in collaboration with your home builder, you can be certain your final build will harmonize with the land it occupies and provide you with all the features on your must-have list. Maybe that means a walk-out basement to take advantage of an existing slope. Maybe that means optimizing for both function and curb-appeal on a peaceful cul-de-sac lot. Maybe it means adding a custom deck addition to give the homeowner superior sheltered views of the woods or water features that their property abuts. Regardless of what tops your list, we’re here to help you find the lot that will make it all happen.

Let us help you find your dream lot! Connect with our lot sourcing experts, today.