69 vetted builders serving Scott County · 4,354 buildable candidate parcels across 18 jurisdictions · how we vet & rank
69 builders serve at least one Scott County city. Service areas differ, so check each profile against your city.
Highmark Builders is a Savage-based firm that handles both remodeling and new custom home construction through an integrated design/build process, with an in-house team of project managers, job supervisors, carpenters, and interior designers. Its site notes it was named Housing First MN's 2025 Remodeler of the Year.
Parade of Homes 2026
Homes by Tradition is a locally owned, Lakeville-based custom home builder whose team of architects, designers, and craftsmen guides clients through a custom design-build journey, including building on your own lot. Through its TRADITION network it offers in-house mortgage, banking, title, and development services. Listed service areas include Lakeville, Prior Lake, Edina, Minnetonka, Rosemount, Chaska, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota Heights, and Dakota County.
Parade of Homes 2021
KeyLand Homes is a family-owned, semi-custom home builder based in Prior Lake, established in 1983 and founded by Gary Horkey and his sons Keith and Kevin. The company builds neighborhoods and communities with a range of floor plans, model homes, and quick move-in homes, and also offers renovations. Its stated vision emphasizes quality construction and first-class customer service and care during and after the building process.
Parade of Homes 2026
McWilliams & Associates is a Prior Lake-based builder of custom homes and townhomes serving the Lakeville and Prior Lake area, holding Minnesota residential building contractor license BC004572. Its record includes a 2024 Reggie Award from Housing First Minnesota.
Parade of Homes 2024
OneTenTen Homes is a Burnsville-based builder that combines the efficiency of a large builder with the flexibility of an independent custom builder, offering a large scope of pre-designed floorplans and models that buyers can customize. The company grew out of Bill and Carol Ryan's Bloomington real estate roots, and its process includes a detailed pre-construction meeting, a pre-drywall inspection, and a 10-year structural warranty. Its site notes it is a recipient of the Parade of Homes Reggie Award and has multiple models open in Twin Cities communities.
Parade of Homes 2026
Robert Thomas Homes builds new homes in communities across the Twin Cities, with collections of home plans tailored to a variety of lifestyles, lot sizes, and budgets, plus quick move-in homes from an ever-changing inventory and an on-your-own-lot option. Buyers customize their homes through the company's Design Studio and its interior design team, and co-founder Paul Grabow serves as president, overseeing day-to-day operations.
Parade of Homes 2026
Wayzata design-build firm that designs and builds custom homes, remodels and additions across the west metro.
Bellepar Homes is a Lakeville firm specializing in new home design/build, remodeling and additions, and finished basements for homeowners in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas. Clients can build from the firm’s stock floorplans — each designed as a customizable starting point — or pursue a fully custom design, and the team collaborates weekly across design, production, construction, and budget until project completion.
Build It Pretty is a family-owned remodeling contractor in Prior Lake that remodels kitchens, bathrooms, basements and exteriors and builds additions and decks.
Caritas Builders is a Burnsville design-build firm that builds custom homes, including homes on acreage, and does additions, whole-home remodels and lower-level projects across the Twin Cities metro.
Castle Gate Construction is a family-owned builder and remodeler based in Victoria, founded by Dan Kurth in 1996. The company serves clients throughout the Twin Cities with custom home construction, new construction, porches, decks, and kitchen and basement remodeling, and maintains communication with homeowners from initial planning through a one-year walk-through.
Parade of Homes 2026
Changing Images Design is a residential design-build remodeler and general contractor based in Rogers, taking on kitchen, bath, addition and whole-home remodels across the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
Charles Cudd Co. is a Plymouth-based firm that designs, builds, and remodels homes, offering build-on-your-lot custom homes alongside luxury villa neighborhoods in communities such as Chanhassen, Maple Grove, Medina, Victoria, and North Oaks. Its process blends architectural design, interior design, and construction management in one integrated design-build offering, and its site describes the team as Minnesota's most awarded architectural design-build team. The firm also maintains a Woodbury office.
Parade of Homes 2026
Charles Merritt Homes is a Lakeville design-build company that builds new homes from its floor plan options and takes on remodeling, additions and basement finishing.
Parade of Homes 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Che Bella Interiors Design + Remodeling is a Burnsville design-build remodeling firm offering interior design and remodeling for homes across the Twin Cities metro.
College City Design-Build is a remodeling and construction company based in Lakeville, Minnesota, run as a family business, handling bathrooms, kitchens, lower-level remodels, whole-house remodels, additions and porches, and new homes. Its process moves from an initial consultation through preliminary and final design, with a lead designer helping clients select products, then finalizes a firm project price based on the final plans and selections before construction begins, with weekly progress reports along the way.
Prior Lake, Minnesota group that combines land development, design, building and real estate, offering custom home design-build packages on a client's lot or its own.
Parade of Homes 2015, 2016
Country Creek Builders is a family-owned design-build remodeling contractor in Lakeville that remodels kitchens, bathrooms and basements and builds additions across the south metro.
Cuddigan Custom Builders is a Lakeville-based family business that has been building custom homes since 1985 - more than 40 years - with each home architecturally inspired and individually tailored to the client's needs. The firm builds in neighborhoods including The Wilds and The Ranch of Credit River as well as on customers' own lots, and its project team works with clients every step of the process.
Parade of Homes 2026
Dean Johnson Homes is a Medina-based family business, founded in 1975 and entering its second generation, that has been shaping neighborhoods across the Twin Cities for over five decades. The company handles new construction, remodeling, custom home builds, and land development, with communities including Dancing Waters, Eagleview Villas, Fairhill Estates, and the upcoming Chapel View.
Parade of Homes 2026
New Prague contractor that builds homes and commercial buildings and also remodels homes, including additions, sunrooms and kitchens.
Fieldstone Family Homes, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Burnsville, is a privately held custom residential builder serving the Twin Cities metro and western Wisconsin. The company builds both single-family and multi-family homes across a wide range of price points, and clients can build on one of its lots or bring their own. Its owners brought more than 100 years of combined construction experience, and a sister company, Fieldstone Real Estate Specialists, handles real estate needs for clients who build with them.
Parade of Homes 2026
GBI Homes is a family-owned home builder in Chaska that builds custom homes on its own lots or the client's, and also does remodeling, basement finishing and decks.
Parade of Homes 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Gerl Construction is a Hastings-based design-build remodeler and deck builder working in south-metro cities including Lakeville, Farmington and Rosemount.
GreenWood Design Build is an Edina custom home builder led by president and director of construction Scott Loehrer, a former apprentice carpenter who started his own framing company and spent 15 years expanding it, and vice president Doug Cutting, who holds an architecture degree from the University of Minnesota and directs architectural design. Doug designs each home, Scott coordinates construction on site, and clients can build on their own lot; the firm lists custom and new home building across the metro from Edina and Eden Prairie to Victoria, Chaska, and Waconia.
Hendel Homes is a Minnesota custom home builder and remodeler working on highly detailed residences and renovations, guided by a philosophy of stewardship that Rick and Amy Hendel describe as the foundation of the company. The firm facilitates communication among owners, architects, designers, engineers, and its construction team, and states it has completed more than one hundred highly detailed projects over the last twenty years. Its site lists Builder of the Year, Reggie, and Trillium awards from Housing First Minnesota among its recognition.
Homes by Moderno - whose site now operates as Moderno Construction Management (Moderno Homes) - is a third-generation, family-owned builder led by owners Jake, Ashlee, and Alexandra Tupy, serving Prior Lake, Lakeville, and surrounding south metro areas. The family has built over 800 homes and completed over thirty five residential developments plus complex acreage and lake builds, and its building model promises 100% transparency in finance and schedules, keeping clients highly involved throughout the build.
Veteran-owned builder and remodeler serving the Twin Cities south metro, doing custom homes, garages and additions as well as kitchen, bathroom, basement and whole-home remodels.
Inspire Homes offers a custom tailored new home and renovation experience, backed by over 15 years of experience in new home design, sales, and service. The company builds in Cannon Falls, Dundas, Owatonna, and Elko New Market, and its offerings run from quick move-in homes and a lineup of house plans to a full custom home experience in which every plan is custom drafted.
Parade of Homes 2026
Iron & Oak is an Edina remodeler that works on kitchens, bathrooms, basements, whole-home remodels, decks, porches and additions in the Twin Cities.
JB Woodfitter Homes is a custom home builder based in Prior Lake, working in the south metro area of Minnesota in communities like Prior Lake, Lakeville, and Credit River and building homes of any scale, from lakeside retreats to expansive acreage. Clients can start with one of the company's proven designs or create something completely unique, with an in-house designer and project manager included on every project. By specializing in a specific geographic area, the firm is able to accommodate multiple price points.
Johnson-Reiland Builders & Remodelers is a family-owned builder based in Northfield, Minnesota, that builds custom single-family homes and twin and multifamily homes in southeastern Minnesota and the south and west Twin Cities metro. It builds in its own neighborhoods and on clients' lots, and also takes on remodels.
Parade of Homes 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2026
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K.A. Witt Construction is a fourth-generation, family-owned New Prague contractor founded in 1934 that builds new homes and townhomes in the southern Twin Cities metro, alongside remodeling, commercial and excavation work.
Parade of Homes 2014, 2015, 2017, 2024
Krogstad Construction is a Savage, Minnesota contractor that builds custom homes and does whole-house remodels, room additions, kitchens and baths, porches and decks, and basement finishing.
Shakopee general contractor that builds additions, large-scale remodels and custom homes.
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Chaska-based builder of new homes from its own floor plans, in communities across the south and west Twin Cities metro.
Remodeling contractor in Chanhassen serving the west Twin Cities metro with interior and exterior remodeling, additions and insurance-claim restoration.
McNearney Custom Homes is a Lakeville family builder whose site describes nearly 100 years of building: grandfather Robert began building homes just after World War I, Jim took over the business in 1955, and current owner Bob McNearney succeeded him in 1988. With a focus on quality over quantity, the firm offers a hands-on custom process - from selecting materials to applying your own design ideas - with in-house plan design, and can assist buyers in finding a lot and building in the Twin Cities suburbs and metro area.
MDS Remodeling is a Wayzata remodeling company that also builds custom homes, with projects across Minneapolis and the west metro.
Mission Construction is a Shakopee residential construction and remodeling company that builds new homes and remodels across the Twin Cities metro.
New Spaces is a second-generation, family-owned design-build remodeling firm with 40+ years of experience, founded by Doug Nelson and now led with his son Shawn Nelson. From a headquarters in Burnsville and a design center at Edina's Southdale Center, the company handles whole-home transformations, kitchens, baths, basements, additions, and outdoor living for homeowners across the south, west, and broader Twin Cities metro. Each client works with a dedicated designer who develops three design plans to choose from, with a firm budget commitment made after design.
Ohana Home & Design is a small, family-owned residential remodeling firm with a showroom in Mendota Heights, focused on kitchens, bathrooms and the rest of the house.
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New Prague custom home builder, established in 2000, building custom homes and association-maintained townhomes in Scott, Le Sueur and Rice counties and nearby cities.
Parade of Homes 2014, 2015
Pebble Creek Custom Homes is a Savage-based custom home builder and 2026 Parade of Homes participant, holding active Minnesota residential building contractor license BC691406.
Pietsch Builders is a custom home builder in Lakeville, Minnesota, building custom homes in the south metro since 1986. The company builds 30-50 homes a year using fully customizable floor plans, currently including the Berres Ridge neighborhood in Lakeville, and clients have direct contact with Doug Pietsch from start to finish of the building process.
Parade of Homes 2026
Pinnacle Family Homes is a Prior Lake-based builder offering custom homes and whole-home remodeling, with a 2026 Parade of Homes entry and active Minnesota residential building contractor license BC665655.
Parade of Homes 2026
Remodeling contractor serving the south metro Twin Cities with kitchen, bathroom, basement, interior, deck and exterior work.
Burnsville design-build remodeler handling kitchens, bathrooms, additions, lower levels and custom cabinetry from its own millwork shop, across the Twin Cities.
Lardy PhotographyRon Clark Construction & Design is a privately owned home builder based in Edina, founded in 1975 by Ron Clark with the construction of his first twin-home there. The company designs and builds single-family homes, villa homes, townhomes, and condominiums, building exclusively in the Twin Cities metro with active neighborhoods in Golden Valley, Eden Prairie, Prior Lake, Minnetonka, and Plymouth. Its site lists a Lifetime Achievement Award and Home Builder of the Year from Housing First Minnesota, and today's leadership includes CEO Mike Waldo, COO Kenton Hove, and Director of Sales Jeff Bergom.
Parade of Homes 2026
General contractor based in Lakeville, Minnesota, doing new construction and remodeling for residential and commercial clients; established 1992 per its own site.
Shimota Project Management is a New Prague general contractor that builds new homes, including from its own set of floor plans, and takes on remodeling, kitchens, baths, lower-level finishes, roofing, siding and decks.
Parade of Homes 2026
Contractor that does new construction, remodels, decks, porches and landscaping, with the owner on site daily.
Parade of Homes 2019
Stockwell Homes is a design-build remodeling firm based in Edina that handles residential renovations, additions, interiors and some new construction in the Twin Cities.
Superior Contracting is a Jordan, Minnesota builder of custom homes that also does renovations and pools and outdoor spaces, and offers lots in its own land developments. It has an interior designer on staff.
Parade of Homes 2026
Traditions by Donnay Homes builds custom homes in classic Twin Cities neighborhoods such as Edina and Wayzata, continuing a Donnay family homebuilding tradition in Minnesota that dates to 1941; the current owner is the fourth generation of the family in the business. Started by Paul and Kate Donnay and based in Maple Grove, the firm offers new construction, renovation, and consulting, and its site notes recognition as a 2025 Designated Green Path Builder by Housing First Minnesota for energy-efficient construction.
Parade of Homes 2026
West Bend Homes is a Chanhassen home builder that offers floor plans for new construction, builds on clients' own lots, and does large interior renovations including kitchens and lower levels.
White Birch Design is a full-service design/build remodeling company based in Lakeville, specializing in kitchen, bath, and basement projects. Co-owners Steve McDonald and Angela Barnhart bring a combined 30-plus years in the design, construction, and real estate industries, guiding homeowners from concept to design to construction with a boutique-style approach. Its primary focus is the south metro communities of Lakeville, Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville, Rosemount, Prior Lake, and Savage, and it also works with homeowners across the Minneapolis and St. Paul area.
Wooddale Builders has been a family-owned and operated luxury custom home builder and whole-house remodeling company since 1975. Founded by Steve Schwieters, the Minnetonka-based team designs and builds high-end custom homes and remodels throughout the Twin Cities metro, with a portfolio spanning custom homes, luxury villas, and remodels. Its site notes multiple Builders Association of the Twin Cities Reggie Awards for home design, construction quality, and value.
Parade of Homes 2026
Xpand, Inc is a family-owned Shakopee construction company, established in 2004, specializing in custom home building and remodeling with over 100 years of combined team experience. Its listed specialties run from design-build work, home additions, custom remodeling, kitchens, and basement finishes to decks, porches, and multi-activity athletic courts, including unique spaces like man caves and accessible designs, serving the Twin Cities metro area.
Lennar is a national production builder offering single-family homes, townhomes, and multifamily communities in Twin Cities suburbs including Lakeville, Woodbury, Blaine, Rogers, and Maple Grove, and holds active Minnesota residential building contractor license BC001413. Housing First Minnesota's 2025 Top 25 list has ranked it the metro's largest homebuilder by volume for 20 consecutive years.
Parade of Homes 2026
D.R. Horton is a national production builder; its site states it built its first home in 1978, passed 1,000,000 homes in 2023, and keeps the same mission of delivering quality and affordability across the country. Per its site, more people have chosen D.R. Horton than any other builder since 2002, and it offers homes and services for every stage of life, whether buying or renting. In Minnesota it builds single-family homes and townhomes in growth suburbs such as Lakeville, Blaine, and Woodbury, holding residential building contractor license BC605657.
Parade of Homes 2026
David Weekley Homes began in 1976 in Houston, Texas, and describes itself as one of the largest privately held home builders in America, spanning 13 states and 19 markets. In the Twin Cities, the company specializes in new construction single-family homes and townhomes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, offering both quick move-in homes and the option to select a homesite, floor plan, and options and build from the ground up.
Parade of Homes 2026
M/I Homes is a national homebuilder whose commitment to building a quality home and treating customers right was set forth by founders Melvin and Irving Schottenstein in 1976; its site reports over 50 years and more than 170,000 homes built, starting in Columbus, Ohio and now serving 17 markets across the U.S. In the Twin Cities it builds single-family homes and townhomes, framing its approach around quality, care, and design.
Parade of Homes 2026
Pulte Homes is a national builder offering new construction homes in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul area, with Twin Cities options ranging from townhomes to single-family homes starting in the $300Ks. Its site highlights a 10-year limited structural warranty paired with coverage of materials and workmanship, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and other mechanical systems, and buyers can visit local Sales Centers or schedule virtual or in-person appointments.
Parade of Homes 2026
Brandl Anderson Homes has built single-family homes, villas, and townhomes since 1993, developing its own neighborhood communities across the south and southwest metro — currently selling in Lakeville, Apple Valley, Farmington, Inver Grove Heights, Chanhassen, and Carver, with Minnetrista and Waconia communities on the way. Move-in-ready inventory on its site lists from the mid-$400Ks to just over $1M, several communities are association-maintained, and the company builds under its Green Path homes program.
Parade of Homes 2026
Distinctive Design Build, co-founded by Matt Odenthal and Wade Brelje, builds custom homes throughout the Twin Cities along with move-in-ready homes in its own communities. Buyers can bring their own ideas or start with the company's plans, with Matt guiding homeowners from initial concept to final walkthrough while Wade oversees the building process working with trusted trades and partners.
Parade of Homes 2026
Eternity Homes is a Farmington-based builder that has been building homes since 2008, with Pat Flynn as president. It offers custom home design and construction, move-in-ready homes, and building on your own lot, with neighborhoods in Twin Cities communities including Inver Grove Heights, Farmington, Lakeville, Rosemount, Blaine, and Prior Lake as well as western Wisconsin.
Parade of Homes 2026
McDonald Construction Partners builds custom and semi-custom homes across the Twin Cities, carrying on a company history that dates to 1978; founder Bob McDonald retired in late 2021 after Dave Remick acquired the firm in September 2021. Based in Burnsville, the builder develops and builds within its own communities across the metro and also builds on land clients already own, including teardown-and-rebuild projects in established neighborhoods. An in-house design team and home consultants work with buyers on the details, and every McDonald home is MN Green Path tested.
Parade of Homes 2026
Summergate Homes is a local family-owned company that has been building houses in the Lakeville area for 40 years, continuing the stewardship of original owner Carl Tollefson with many family members still involved in the company. Drawing on a background in both home building and land development, it builds in its own communities — the villas in Summers Creek are the latest development in the Summergate family.
Parade of Homes 2026
4,354 of Scott County's 60,840 parcels pass the Lot Finder's build-candidate test — 7.2% of the county, against 3.4% across the seven-county metro. That is 11.1% of the metro's 39,176 candidates on 5.4% of its parcels, which is the short version of why people looking for land look here.
The table below is the whole county, not the part of it we have pages for. 10 of the 18 jurisdictions are townships, and between them they hold 2,112 candidates — 49% of the county's buildable land sits outside any city.
| Jurisdiction | Type | Parcels | Build candidates | Share of parcels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shakopee | City | 15,869 | 706 | 4.4% |
| Prior Lake | City | 11,667 | 386 | 3.3% |
| Helena Township | Township | 1,056 | 317 | 30.0% |
| Cedar Lake Township | Township | 1,526 | 309 | 20.2% |
| Spring Lake Township | Township | 1,832 | 307 | 16.8% |
| Belle Plaine Township | Township | 691 | 295 | 42.7% |
| New Market Township | Township | 1,775 | 281 | 15.8% |
| Belle Plaine | City | 3,070 | 270 | 8.8% |
| Credit River | City | 2,421 | 254 | 10.5% |
| Sand Creek Township | Township | 912 | 235 | 25.8% |
| Elko New Market | City | 2,083 | 202 | 9.7% |
| Savage | City | 11,689 | 193 | 1.7% |
| Jordan | City | 2,443 | 182 | 7.4% |
| Blakeley Township | Township | 424 | 171 | 40.3% |
| Louisville Township | Township | 657 | 73 | 11.1% |
| Saint Lawrence Township | Township | 335 | 72 | 21.5% |
| Jackson Township | Township | 511 | 52 | 10.2% |
| New Prague | City | 1,879 | 49 | 2.6% |
| Scott County | — | 60,840 | 4,354 | 7.2% |
Measured 2026-08-03 by applying the Lot Finder ingest pipeline's own build-candidate predicate to the regional parcel data, so the census counts what an ingest would select. A build candidate is a parcel that looks buildable from public records. It is not a for-sale listing, it is not an offer, and many candidates are not on the market. Two rows carry no candidates and are kept rather than dropped, because removing them would misstate the jurisdiction count: a block of parcels the county layer does not attribute to a jurisdiction, and a single Shorewood parcel that falls inside the Scott layer.
Every city in Scott County writes its own zoning ordinance, and the numbers that decide how large a house fits on a given lot — minimum lot area, setbacks, impervious surface caps, shoreland setbacks — are set city by city, not by the county. Below is what this site holds, sourced from each city's publisher of record. Where a figure is not held, it says so.
No sourced land-use figures are held for the county's remaining cities. Nothing is filled in by analogy from a neighbouring city, and no regional default is shown here as if it were a city's own rule — confirm any figure with the city before relying on it.
Full builder directories, local market notes and cost guidance for the Scott County cities with a city page:
69 builders in this directory declare a service area covering at least one of Scott County's 8 cities. Every one is verified the same way as the rest of the directory: Minnesota DLI licence where one is on record, and a confirmed service area. Builders serving a county rarely serve all of it — check the service area on each profile against the specific city you are building in.
4,354 of Scott County's 60,840 parcels pass the Lot Finder's build-candidate test — 7.2% of the county, and 11.1% of the 39,176 candidates across the seven-county metro. Measured 2026-08-03 by applying the ingest pipeline's own candidate predicate to the regional parcel data. A candidate is a parcel that looks buildable from public records; it is not a listing, and it is not necessarily for sale.
None yet. Where a city's figures are not sourced from its publisher of record, this page says so rather than showing a default as if it were the city's own rule.
In an incorporated city, the city issues the building permit and enforces its own zoning ordinance — which is why the setback and coverage rules on this page differ city by city. In the county's 10 townships, land use is administered at the township and county level instead, and septic and well permits are county functions. Scott County's townships hold 2,112 of its 4,354 build candidates, so this is not an edge case here: it is roughly 49% of the county's buildable land.
It has land, which is the constraint that binds hardest in the inner metro: 7.2% of its parcels pass the build-candidate test against 3.4% metro-wide. The trade-off is that much of that land sits in townships rather than cities, where you are more likely to be on a well and a septic system and further from municipal sewer. The cities on the county's eastern edge — Chanhassen, Chaska, Victoria — are the sewered, closer-in end of the same county.
Tell us the city and the project and we'll shortlist up to 3 vetted builders serving that part of Scott County.
Land inventory: Lot Finder metro census, measured 2026-08-03 across 1,136,660 parcels in the seven-county metro. Ordinance figures: each city's publisher of record, cited above with the retrieval date. Builder listings: see how we rank.
