Most Active Home Builders in Raleigh (2026)
Stanley Martin Homes, LLC leads new construction in Raleigh with 29 permits. Here are the 15 most active home builders in the market, ranked by new-build permit volume.
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Research source-published project activity in Raleigh. Contractor, owner, and contact fields appear only where the source provides them; publishing cadence is shown on the city page.
View Raleigh permit data →New-construction permits are the clearest signal of who is building homes and ground-up projects in Raleigh. This report ranks the home builders and new-construction firms filing the most new-build permits in Raleigh over the trailing 12 months — straight from the city's permit feed, refreshed daily.
Most Active Home Builders in Raleigh
- Stanley Martin Homes, LLC — 29 permits
- LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC — 26 permits
- Toll Brothers — 21 permits
- KB Home Raleigh-Durham Inc. — 20 permits
- D.R. Horton, Inc. T/A Emerald Homes — 20 permits
- M I HOMES OF RALEIGH — 20 permits
- Eastwood Homes of Raleigh, LLC DBA IBEX HC — 18 permits
- Concept 8, LLC — 17 permits
- SMITH DOUGLAS HOMES — 13 permits
- LEGACY CUSTOM HOMES — 12 permits
- MURDOCK GANNON CONSTRUCTION, I — 10 permits
- CONTR - CHOATE CONSTRUCTION CO. — 8 permits
- 816 WAKE FOREST ROAD LLC — 6 permits
- MILLS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OF — 5 permits
- Kaye House — 4 permits
What This Tells You
Stanley Martin Homes, LLC is the most active new-construction filer in Raleigh with 29 permits, ahead of LENNAR CAROLINAS, LLC (26) and Toll Brothers (21). The list is dominated by production builders and the trade firms that feed them — the companies driving new-home supply in the market. Where a builder is filing dozens of new-construction permits, there is a pipeline of foundations, framing, mechanical, and finish work behind every one.
How to Use It
For subcontractors and suppliers, these builders are the accounts that generate the most downstream work in Raleigh. For competing builders, the ranking is a direct read on market share by permit count. And for anyone doing business development, every name is a verified, currently-active company in the Raleigh permit record.
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