Dream Finders Homes, Inc. designs, builds and sells homes primarily in high-growth markets using its asset-light lot acquisition strategy.
The company’s primary focus is on constructing and selling single-family homes across entry-level, first-time move-up, second-time move-up, and active adult homes. The company’s home offerings are marketed under various brands, including Dream Finders Homes, DF Luxury, Craft Homes, and Coventry Homes.
To fully serve the company’s homebuyers and capture anci...
Dream Finders Homes, Inc. designs, builds and sells homes primarily in high-growth markets using its asset-light lot acquisition strategy.
The company’s primary focus is on constructing and selling single-family homes across entry-level, first-time move-up, second-time move-up, and active adult homes. The company’s home offerings are marketed under various brands, including Dream Finders Homes, DF Luxury, Craft Homes, and Coventry Homes.
To fully serve the company’s homebuyers and capture ancillary business opportunities, it has financial services operations that offer title insurance primarily through DF Title, LLC, doing business as Golden Dog Title & Trust or Golden Dog Title (DF Title) and mortgage banking solutions primarily through the company’s wholly owned mortgage banking business, Jet HomeLoans, LLC (Jet HomeLoans or Jet).
In February 2024, the company entered the Charleston and Greenville, South Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee markets with its acquisition of the majority of the homebuilding assets of Crescent Ventures, LLC (Crescent Homes). In July 2024, the company acquired the remaining interest in its mortgage banking joint venture, Jet HomeLoans.
In January 2025, the company entered the Atlanta, Georgia market and expanded its operations in Greenville, South Carolina with the company’s acquisition of the majority of the homebuilding assets of Liberty Communities, LLC (Liberty Communities).
As of December 31, 2024, the company controlled 54,698 lots under finished lot option and land bank option contracts.
Markets
The company’s homebuilding operations are organized into four reportable segments: Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and Financial Services. The company’s Southeast segment consists of the homebuilding operations in Jacksonville, Orlando, and Tampa, Florida, the southeast coast of Florida, and southwest Florida; Savannah, Georgia; Hilton Head and Bluffton, South Carolina, and the company’s Active Adult and Custom Homes homebuilding operations in northeast Florida. The company’s Mid-Atlantic segment consists of its operations in DC Metro; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, Fayetteville, Raleigh, and Wilmington, North Carolina, and Charleston, Myrtle Beach, and Greenville, South Carolina. The company’s Midwest segment consists of its homebuilding operations in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Phoenix, Arizona. The company’s Financial Services segment consists of its mortgage banking and title services operations, which primarily consist of Jet HomeLoans and Golden Dog Title and Trust. The operations of Liberty Communities will be included in the company’s Southeast segment as of the date of acquisition.
DF Capital
The company’s primary operating subsidiary, Dream Finders Homes LLC, periodically enters into land bank arrangements with DF Capital Management, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (DF Capital). The company owns a 49% membership interest in DF Capital, and a non-affiliated third party owns the remaining 51% of the membership interests in DF Capital.
Products, Communities, and Construction
Homes, Homebuyers, and Active Communities
The company offers a range of single-family homes in each of its markets, placing a primary emphasis on entry-level and first-time move-up homes. It also provides second-time move-up and active adult homes, as well as homes under built-for-rent contracts, which are available for sale to investors.
As of December 31, 2024, the company had 242 active communities. The company’s active community count excludes communities under built-for-rent contracts, as all sales to third-party investors occur at one point in time, and these communities would have no homesites remaining to sell. As of December 31, 2024, the company had 10 communities delivering closings under built-for-rent contracts.
Construction and Materials
When constructing the company’s homes, it is dependent upon building material suppliers to provide a continuous flow of raw materials. It typically takes it between 150 and 240 days to construct a single-family home. The construction period for its custom homes is typically longer.
The company has extensive experience managing construction processes without employing subcontractors directly. Instead, the company relies on local and regional builder associations to identify and contract with reputable tradespeople. This approach also eliminates the need for equipment investment, as it does not employ its own construction base. Each division is led by a construction director, manager, or vice president who oversees area managers. Communities have dedicated construction managers supervising the work performed by the subcontractors. The company uses enterprise resource planning and integrated scheduling software for close construction progress monitoring and timely issue identification. The company’s software also enables its superintendents to monitor the completion of work, which, in turn, expedites payments to the subcontractors.
Financial Services
By providing comprehensive mortgage and title services in markets where the company operates, its Financial Services segment serves as a valuable resource to customers navigating the homebuying process, and in turn, enhances its efficiency in converting its backlog into home closings.
The company’s wholly owned mortgage banking subsidiary, Jet HomeLoans, offers conforming and non-conforming mortgage financing to its homebuyers. On July 1, 2024, it acquired the remaining interest in Jet HomeLoans.
The company’s wholly owned subsidiary, DF Title, is a title insurance agency licensed in multiple states that provides closing, escrow, and title insurance services. DF Title primarily closes residential real estate transactions, including new home construction, resale, and refinance, as well as commercial real estate transactions. DF Title operates in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. DF Title’s staff includes attorneys, state-licensed title agents, escrow officers, and experienced support staff with hundreds of years of collective closing experience. Closing, escrow, and title insurance are primarily regulated at a state level, requiring that transactions be conducted by skilled attorneys and/or licensed title insurance agents. Expansion of title operations into the company’s markets is ongoing and consideration of further expansion in its markets is driven by unit volume, average sales price for homes sold, state-level legal considerations, and acquisitions.
Marketing and Sales
The company provides attentive one-on-one customer service throughout the home buying process, empowering its customers with the flexibility to personalize their homes, and actively soliciting feedback from all of its customers.
While the company utilizes a diverse marketing mix, digital marketing is the primary component of its strategy. The company has maximized the results of its digital marketing efforts in recent years through the development of a dedicated online sales team. The company strategically selects digital marketing methods that target its potential customers at various stages of the purchasing cycle. These include channels, such as search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, social media marketing, email marketing, and display advertising.
The company strategically opens communities in high-visibility areas that allow it to take advantage of local traffic patterns. Model homes play a significant role in the company’s marketing efforts by not only creating an attractive atmosphere, but also displaying options and upgrades. As the Official Home Builder of the Jacksonville Jaguars, it maintains a fully decorated model home at the team’s stadium, which attracts thousands of fans each NFL game day.
The company is also the Official Home Builder of the PGA TOUR. This strategic alliance provides a national marketing footprint in regions where it operates and where high-profile, annual PGA TOUR golf tournaments are held.
The company sells its homes through its own sales representatives and through independent real estate brokers. It continuously works to maintain good relationships with independent real estate brokers in its markets and offers competitive programs to reward these brokers for selling its homes. The company’s in-house sales force typically works from sales offices located in model homes close to or in each community. Sales representatives assist potential homebuyers by providing them with floor plans, price information, development and construction timetables, tours of model homes, and the home customization options that it offers.
The company is able to offer a range of optionality within the homebuilding process, from move-in-ready inventory homes to homes that can be tailored with additional features, including certain structural modifications. While most of its customers opt for inventory homes, for those seeking more options, it is able to provide access to a diverse range of materials and upgrades to cater to their specific preferences. The company’s architectural design team continually adapts floor plans in response to customer buying trends in various markets and collaborates with its land team to secure suitable lots for these customized plans.
Seasonality
In all of the company’s markets, it has historically experienced similar variability in its results of operations and capital requirements from quarter to quarter due to the seasonal nature of the homebuilding industry. The company generally sells more homes in the first and second quarters (year ended December 2024) and closes more homes in its third and fourth quarters. Additionally, it generally has higher capital requirements in its second and third quarters in order to maintain its inventory levels.
Governmental Regulation and Environmental Matters
The company’s operations that provide mortgage and title services within the company’s Financial Services segment are subject to various local, state, and federal laws, statutes, ordinances, administrative rules, and other regulations, including requirements for participants in programs offered by FHA, VA, USDA, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). The company’s title services’ practices regarding closing, escrow, and issuance of title insurance are subject to rules established, in part, by state insurance regulators and underwriter guidelines. Both industries are affected by rules mandated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, such as the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure, governing matters like loan applications, disclosures and loan materials, closing, funding, and issuance of title insurance policies.
History
Dream Finders Homes, Inc. was founded in 2008. The company was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 2020.