Dream Finders Homes named Builder Of Year

Zonda's Builder announced Dream Finders Homes Inc. as the 2025 recipient of the Builder of the Year award. The award will be presented live at the 37th annual Builder 100 Leadership Summit in Dana Point, California, on May 5-7.

“The Builder of the Year Award is a highly anticipated honor that highlights the top builders in the country,” said Builder editor-in-chief Steve Ladurantaye. “As we evaluated all the candidates for 2025, Dream Finders consistently emerged at the top. We congratulate them on their success and look forward to what the future holds.”

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Dream Finders Homes is a publicly traded and locally operated company. As No. 14 on the 2025 Builder 100 list, the home builder had a busy 2024 reaching company records of 8,583 closings, a pre-tax income of $438 million and home building revenues of $4.4 billion, which is an increase of 18% compared to 2023. As of the end of 2024, Dream Finders’ land pipeline included almost 55,000 lots controlled.

Dream Finders Homes sells homes in more than 220 communities across 10 states (Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virgina, Maryland).

• Dream Finders Homes acquired Crescent Homes last year, expanding into the markets of Charleston and Greenville in South Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee.

• In early 2025, Dream Finders Homes entered the Atlanta, Georgia, market and expanded further in Greenville, South Carolina, through the acquisition of Liberty Communities.

• Dream Finders Homes acquired the remaining 40% equity interest in its mortgage joint venture, Jet HomeLoans in July 2024, and recently completed the acquisition Cherry Creek Mortgage, LLC.

• Dream Finders entered the Tampa market in late 2023, and Phoenix, Arizona, market in early 2024; as well as expanded into key markets along Florida's southeastern coast, and extended its reach into Southwest Florida, enhancing its presence in high-demand coastal markets.

• Net new orders in the fourth quarter of 2024 were 1,611, an increase of 46% compared to 1,106 net new orders for the fourth quarter of 2023.

“It’s not easy to deliver growth year after year and we have grown our business consistently every year for 16 years in a row, and are hopefully on track for growing a 17th year in 2025,” added Zalupski.