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Builder Land Acquisition Trends in Florida: 2020-2025

This snapshot highlights where Florida’s leading home builders have been most active and what the data reveals about builder land acquisitions over the past five years.

These insights come from the Acres Home Builder Index, which tracks builder land acquisitions in near real time, providing a view of market activity before land is entitled and homes are built.

Key Insights

• Production builders have acquired >50,000 acres between 2020 and 2025.

• Year-over-year growth rates on home builder land purchases have dipped into negative territory in 2025.

Florida’s top 10 builders alone have poured over $13B into large sites and entitled plots.

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What Is the Acres Home Builder Index?

The Acres Home Builder Index combines proprietary land acquisition tracking with in-depth site suitability analysis so you can anticipate future trends. You get:

•   Verified land sales tied to home builder activity.

•   Entity unmasking to reveal real buyers behind entities.

•   Monthly reports on home builder expansion activity.

•   Layered site insights: zoning & utilities, sales data, topography, risk, and more.

All in one intuitive, map-based platform on desktop and mobile.

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“We are always looking for ways to strengthen our land acquisition strategy and empower our teams with tools that improve decision-making. Acres helps us streamline workflows and ensure data consistency across divisions, allowing us to better serve our homebuyers and communities.”

 — Scott Hair, Regional Corporate Director of Land, Century Communities

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