CASE STUDY
Why Century Communities Chose Acres
Century Communities, a top-10 U.S. homebuilder that’s expanding rapidly, faced challenges in land acquisition due to data fragmentation, inconsistent reporting, and slow due diligence. To scale efficiently, they adopted Acres.com to centralize land intelligence and streamline decision-making across their corporate and regional land teams.
Challenges
• Ownership, zoning, and environmental data scattered across tools and sources.
• Different reporting formats and criteria in different divisions.
• Manual reviews slowing down the time from opportunity identification to decision.
Desired Outcome
Create a differentiated land acquisition strategy for the firm that provides a competitive advantage in the market. Team members were looking for a unified data platform that would enable quicker, more accurate site evaluation by standardizing workflows and data for all regional and corporate teams.
Solutions
✓ Centralized parcel ownership, zoning, environmental insights
✓ Standardized + customizable land review reports
✓ Comparable sales tools and data-backed metrics
✓ Shared platform across corporate and regional teams
Results
✓ Reduced duplicates, confusion, and uncertainty in due diligence.
✓ Ensured consistency across regions but allowed local adaptation.
✓ Increased credibility in negotiations and selection.
✓ Improved transparency and collaboration; less rework.
What Century Communities Had to Say
— Scott Hair, Regional Corporate Director of Land, Century Communities
Why It Stands Out
This partnership reflects a shift in the homebuilding industry toward technology-driven land acquisition, where speed, accuracy, and consistency are becoming table stakes, not nice-to-haves.
About Acres
Acres.com is a land intelligence and mapping platform covering over 150 million parcels in the U.S. It combines ownership, zoning, environmental data, comparable sales, and mapping tools so land decisions can be fast, precise, and informed.
