Century Communities has bought substantially all of the assets of HistoryMaker Homes, the 77-year-old Dallas-Fort Worth builder, in a deal the company says triples its community count in a metro its CEO calls one of the largest housing markets in the country. It didn’t say what it paid.
The Greenwood Village, Colorado, builder announced the purchase on Oct. 8. The seller is HMH Lifestyles L.P., which does business as HistoryMaker. Founded in Fort Worth in 1949 and based in Grapevine, it has been owned by one family for five generations and puts its lifetime output at roughly 25,000 homes. Vestra Advisors advised the seller.
What the HistoryMaker Homes acquisition includes
Century will fold its existing Dallas-Fort Worth operation and HistoryMaker into a single division run from Grapevine, and HistoryMaker’s division leadership and staff move over. Construction, sales and closings continue on schedule, the release says, and buyers already under contract keep their local team.
Two sister companies stay out of the deal. Jabez Development, the family’s land development arm, and ONM Living, its build-to-rent business, remain independently owned. Jabez will finish developing lots in select communities for Century, and the two say they expect to chase more Dallas-Fort Worth land together.
That’s the part subcontractors and land sellers should read twice. The trades that frame and finish HistoryMaker homes now answer to a public builder’s purchasing department. The dirt still comes from the family.
A Dallas-Fort Worth homebuilder bought on the way down
The release gives no closings, lot counts or revenue. Builder magazine’s rankings fill some of that in. HistoryMaker placed 77th on the 2026 Builder 100 with 728 closings and $278 million of revenue in 2025. A year earlier it closed 947 homes and booked $347 million. That’s a 23% drop in closings in 12 months.
So Century isn’t buying a builder at its peak. It’s buying land positions and a local team from an operator whose volume was shrinking, at a time when the national average new-home price has been falling and completions are down 27% from a year ago. For a buyer with a balance sheet, that’s usually when sellers pick up the phone.
Century ranks 10th on the same list.
How the deal fits Century Communities’ Texas numbers
Century delivered 2,506 homes in the second quarter, 527 of them in its Texas segment at an average price of about $291,000, according to its July results. It ended June with a record 330 open communities and 60,128 owned and controlled lots, and it guided to 9,750 to 10,500 deliveries for the year.
Set HistoryMaker’s 2025 pace against that and it’s roughly 7% of Century’s annual volume, all from a single metro. Divide HistoryMaker’s revenue by its closings and the average comes to about $382,000 a home, well above Century’s Texas average. The acquired communities appear to sit at a higher price point than the buyer’s own.
Century reported $802 million of liquidity at midyear, so the check shouldn’t have been a stretch. What it bought is harder to size. The release never says how many communities or lots changed hands, and it doesn’t give the Dallas-Fort Worth count Century started with.
Third-quarter results should settle that. Until then, “triples” is a ratio with no denominator.