New construction homes in Highland

New construction in Highland is a different animal than it is in a fast-growing valley city, and it helps to know that going in. Highland is a bench city of about 21,600 with little open land left beyond Ridgeview's last plats and about a dozen small subdivisions, and it zones almost everything for large lots by law, with only a few planned developments holding smaller lots, so there is very little raw subdivision ground left to fill. What that means in practice is two things. New, here, is usually a custom home on an individual half-acre-to-acre lot, a wonderful project but a process you drive, or it is the recent Town Center townhome infill along the Murdock Trail corridor, the Crestview Ridge community completed in 2023 and Crestview Point introduced in 2024, which serve as the low end in a city where the U.S. Census puts the typical home value at about $928,300.

A straight word on what to expect. Because new supply is custom-and-infill rather than production, the live grid above can run very thin, and that is the honest count, not a broken filter. There is no row of model homes to walk in most of Highland; instead there are lots, builders, and the occasional finished spec. A local partner agent can tell you which lots are genuinely available, which builders are active, and what a realistic custom timeline and budget look like on a given parcel. For the wider picture first, the Highland guide and the full listings page are the two best starting points, and because the high end here is the estate-and-acre tier, this page pairs closely with the luxury page.

If you are building on a Highland acre, the homework is mostly about the lot and the water, and it happens before the foundation. Confirm the parcel's zone, because R-1-40, R-1-30, and R-1-20 live very differently, and the zone number is not the lot minimum. Then the load-bearing Highland fact: water comes on two systems and two bills. The city delivers culinary (drinking) water from city wells for indoor use, and a separate seasonal pressurized irrigation, or secondary, system waters the yard. That secondary line ran unmetered for decades, which is how acre lots stayed cheaply green, but to meet a state law the city put in irrigation meters, finishing them in 2025, and metered billing starts in spring 2027. On a new build with an acre of landscaping, price the landscape, not just the house. The acreage page goes deep on the zoning and the water.

Buying new is its own process, different from a resale. A spec home is already built or under way and you buy it largely as-is; a to-be-built or custom home lets you choose the plan, the lot, and the finishes but comes with a timeline and a real budget for the build. The decisive questions are what the base price or build contract actually includes versus the upgrades, the timeline, the warranty, and on the Town Center townhomes the CC&Rs and what they cover. Two Highland-specific items: the east-bench and canyon-side lots sit in the city's fireworks-restricted wildland-edge zone, so check the slope, the drainage, and the current-year restriction map before you site a home, and confirm the lot is actually inside Highland rather than Alpine, Cedar Hills, or American Fork, since portals lump them together. When a lot or a plan interests you, reach out and I will line up the local agent and read the contract with you.