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Choose the New Home Building Path That Fits Your Timeline
A simpler way to understand new home construction
Not every buyer starts at the same point in the building process. Some buyers want to choose a homesite, floorplan, and design selections earlier. Others want a new build home that is already under construction or closer to completion.
Allen Edwin Homes offers both paths.
Build with more selection options
Starting earlier may give you more opportunities to personalize your home, depending on the floorplan, homesite, construction stage, and available selections. This path may include:
- Choosing your home and homesite
- Reviewing structural options
- Completing financing steps
- Making Design Studio selections
- Moving through construction milestones
- Attending your New Home Orientation
- Closing on your new home
This option is a good fit for buyers who want a more guided new construction experience with available design choices, without managing the process alone.
Choose a home already under construction or ready now
Some Allen Edwin homes are already under construction or complete. These homes may offer a shorter path to closing because many decisions have already been made. This path may include:
- Reviewing included features
- Completing financing steps
- Tracking the remaining construction timeline
- Attending your New Home Orientation
- Closing on your new home
- Accessing customer care and warranty support after closing
If you are comparing new build homes in Michigan, Indiana, or Ohio, homes already under construction can help you review timing, price, location, floorplan, and included features before making a decision.
Frequently Asked Questions
The cost to build a house in Michigan depends on several factors, including location, homesite, floorplan, construction stage, design selections, financing, and current market conditions. That is why broad online averages can be misleading. Two homes in the same state can have very different costs based on size, location, features, and timing.
When comparing home builder options in Michigan, it is more useful to look at:
- Available homes and current pricing
- Included features
- Floorplan size and layout
- Homesite and community location
- Design selections, if available
- Estimated monthly payment
- Construction stage and closing timeline
- Warranty and energy performance
Allen Edwin Homes provides online tools and home information to help buyers compare real options before taking the next step.
Allen Edwin Homes offers a guided new construction process with floorplans, homesites, structural options, and Design Studio selections when available.
The experience is not the same as building a fully custom home from a blank sheet of paper. Instead, buyers choose from available floorplans, communities, homesites, and selection opportunities based on the home’s construction stage.
For many buyers, this creates a more practical path: more choice than buying resale, with a clearer process than fully custom construction.
When comparing home building companies in Michigan, buyers should look beyond the floorplan. The process matters. So does communication, construction standards, energy performance, warranty support, and the ability to compare homes at different stages of completion.
Allen Edwin Homes offers:
- More than 30 years of experience building new homes
- New homes across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio
- Homes available at multiple stages of construction
- A guided process from purchase agreement through closing
- Design selections when available by home and construction stage
- RESNET Energy Smart construction
- A 10 year third party structural warranty
- Customer care and warranty resources after closing
Start by choosing where you want to live, what type of new home fits your needs, and whether you want a home already under construction or one earlier in the process. From there, you will review available homes, financing steps, design selection opportunities, construction timing, orientation, and closing.
Design selection opportunities depend on the home and its stage of construction. Homes earlier in the process may offer more selection opportunities. Homes closer to completion may already have selections finalized.
The timeline depends on the home’s construction stage, location, permits, weather, trade schedules, selections, lender requirements, and closing process. Homes already under construction or complete may offer a shorter path to closing than homes starting earlier in the process.
Before closing, your lender works through final mortgage approval, the home moves through final completion steps, and you attend your New Home Orientation. Once closing is complete and funding is received, you receive the keys to your new home.
Every Allen Edwin home includes a 10 year third party structural warranty. Customer Care and warranty resources are also available after closing.
After signing your purchase agreement, the next steps depend on the home you choose and its stage of construction. In general, you will move through financing, possible design selections, construction updates, New Home Orientation, closing, and customer care support after move in.
Building earlier in the process may allow more selection opportunities, depending on the home, homesite, floorplan, and construction stage. Choosing a home already under construction may offer a shorter path to closing because many design and construction decisions may already be complete.
A New Home Review is a meeting with your Production Manager to review the building process, construction stage, and what to expect as your home moves forward. This helps buyers understand the major milestones before construction continues.
Your Production Manager provides construction updates as your home progresses. These updates help you understand where the home is in the construction process and what steps are coming next.
Buyers typically begin the loan application process shortly after signing the purchase agreement. Your lender will guide you through required documentation, approval steps, and final mortgage approval before closing.
The Design Studio appointment is where buyers review available design options for the home, if selections are still available. Depending on the home and construction stage, this may include flooring, cabinets, countertops, colors, fixtures, and other finish selections.
It depends on the home’s construction stage. Some homes may still have selection opportunities available, while others may already have finalized finishes. A Sales Counselor can help explain what choices are still available for a specific home.
Every Allen Edwin home includes a 10 year third party structural warranty. Additional customer care and service resources are available after closing for questions or eligible warranty items.