Highland Homes Reviews in San Antonio, TX

The home buying process was a little overwhelming but we are loving our new home now that it’s over. We live in a neighborhood with several builders and Highland homes is what we always hear people recommend. In our experience they were professional, used good materials and worked on some great finishes. The layout is extremely convenient and many details within the home such as electric, piping, storage, etc, were just planned in an efficient manner, they didn’t ask us and we didn’t think of those but now that we have the home is clear they knew what they were doing. Due to supply chain issues they did have to replace some of our options, but for the most part they stayed true to the items and styles we picked when designing the house. Price wise it falls more on the higher end and within our neighborhood we’ve seen some beautiful houses from other builders at much more affordable price. Personnel - sales, project manager, financing - were all responsive, responsible, professional and transparent, even after closing. ... More

Highland Homes delivers an excellent home at a very competitive price. The value received is great. Highland Homes provides many features and resulting benefits that you will not find in other production builders. The ability to customize is very helpful in designing your dream home. I really wanted to be in the development I built in "Davis Farms". and having made that decision and having met with every one of the builders in Davis Farms it mad my decision easy. Only Highland Homes would provide me with the quality, with the choices and the confidence that I would get the home I wanted. Do your homework, ask all the right questions and you will agree, there is only one choice, Highland Homes. ... More

From our first interaction with Thea, who sat with us for hours to spec out a home that we weren't even sure we would build, to working with her partner Patti that would provide updates just as often as Thea, to our construction manager Ryan that came in toward the end of the build but got things done to get us to the closing table, to the project manner Tanner that escalated issues as necessary, every single person that we worked with was top notch x2! We've built homes before but Highland Homes is leaps and bounds better than any builder we've worked with. No build is perfect...there will be things that pop up but our Highland Homes team addressed those things as they came up. I would recommend Highland Homes to anyone that is looking to build or buy in Texas. ... More

We are happy to be in our new home. Sales process was great. However, post-close, things are less than desirable. More than two months after closing, original punch list is still not complete. There is little to no communication and no sense of urgency. Hate to complain on social media, but hoping this will get someone’s attention that can take care of the punch list.

Highland Homes builds beautiful homes. Workmanship issues with various crews and insufficient quality control resulted in many issues. However, Highland Homes does attempt to resolve the issues. The process is slow but steady.

Rikki and Chuck are great people to work with

My highland home that I thought would be my dream home, not so much. The home as so many issues and still currently trying to get fixed almost 2 months later. Half million dollar home should of went for a lesser home and got better quality. Very disappointed

We have had great experiences with everyone we come in contact with at Highland homes. Ms. Dorothy is a great sales woman with wealth of experience who helped work us through our home buying process, Brody is a great builder and always available to anwser questions and alleviate any fears. Doug and his team were also great and made the loan experience more easy than any other home buying experiences we have had in the past. We are enjoying our home and look forward to unwinding at our home after a long days work. Thank you so much.

Our buying experience was truly awesome! The sales associate provided all the required information for us to make an informed decision. The design center person was not as helpful as I preferred. All of our interactions with the builders have been remarkable and extremely positive. I would strongly recommend purchasing a home with the Highlands family.

Highland Homes prides themselves on quality of construction. The construction of the home was horrible. There were over 50 discrepancies in our home when we purchased it. The craftmanship was terrible. The home reminded me of a habitat for humanity home which was put together by volunteers who were not experts in construction. After nearly 2 months in the home we are still dealing with repairs and have a long way to go.

Overall, we are quite happy with our new home. The sales team and construction supervisor have been easy to work with. Supply chain issues and labor availability have caused problems but those are being sorted out over time. All in all, we would recommend Highland Homes as a builder, but in today's environment it would be advisable to have a flexible move date.

Thea, and Patty the sales representatives were both SUPER and went out of their way to make the buying experience a positive interaction. Tanner the building superintendent has been very responsive and cured some new home issues in a prompt and helpful manner.

Dorothy, the sales rep was honest, candid, and highlighted the strengths of the home and community. After closing, it's only a good as it's support. Brody has been highly responsive, very pro- homeowner, and helpful with third parties. This company cares about its product and its owner. This is a great little home with quality people standing behind it.

So many things still need repair as we closed before all work was completed properly due to rising interest rates. Plumbing failed within 4 weeks of moving in and backed up into the bathrooms. Shane is on top of these things and I will be happier when all of the work is completed, but for the price point on this home, I expected things to be much better.

Very difficult process working with Highland. Both closing and builder repairs have been a bad experience - based largely on promises from Highland that they inevitably break (sometimes almost immediately). Setting up closing went well, but the morning of closing I was told the home wasn’t actually finished. I should have seen this big red flag. I went back and forth for a few hours trying to get them to delay the closing for their failure to complete the home on time - but I was promised that everything would be completed within 48 hours of closing. Based on the relatively short list of remaining items they were willing to admit to, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and closed. Mistake on my part - do NOT close with Highland until you are fully satisfied with the condition of your home! Getting them to finish everything else after they have your money is like pulling teeth. Once we finally arrived at the home, we were immediately shocked to see the walls were not painted with the color and quality of paint that was listed in our spec sheet. When we pointed this out to the builder representative, he just didn’t believe us and promised us that the paint was the right color and quality. Clearly, to anyone experienced with interior paint, you can tell from the feel that the paint is not correct. And it should be obvious to anyone that the color is wrong. He promised he would look into it anyway, and he has failed to follow-up after 2+ months. There has been a similar trend with many other items in the home (faulty dishwasher, grout repair n the master bath, replacing a piece of damaged ceiling where a can light was drilled in the wrong location, installing missing pieces of trim, repairing damage to the marble countertops, adjustments to cabinets and drawers, and much more!). After promising us they could easily and quickly fix these items in a matter of weeks, it took more than 2 weeks to even get them to repair one item. If I was to leave my representative alone to figure out everything that needs to be completed, nothing would be done! And often the only response I get from him is “we’ll get right on that, I’ll have someone come out tomorrow,” and three weeks later we’re still waiting for someone to come out. If you do go with Highland, you will HAVE to contact your builder rep multiple times a day for the first month or two, otherwise nothing will get done! And talking to his supervisor wasn’t much different. I was told by the supervisor that he wasn’t aware there were any issues and that we’ll just have to “hit reset” on everything, start fresh, and everything will get back on track. No surprise here - that was also a clever way to shut me up for a week or so and get me off their back. NOT good customer service. And that doesn’t even go into the poor build quality. It’s obviously one of those houses/communities that must be put up as quickly as possible without regard to quality (but you still pay a premium for it). In addition to a terrible paint job, the interior trim (baseboards, door and window casings) is absolutely terrible. For example - very rough joinery that is held together with caulk. It’s bad work and it’s in obvious locations throughout the home. The landscaping was clearly just thrown together in about an hour or two. It doesn’t seem they even prepared or leveled the land underneath the sod - it remains extremely lumpy and difficult to mow. There were even large gaps between sections of sod that were too large for the grass to fill-in naturally. I think we will one day be somewhat satisfied with our home, but it will take a lot of work and out-of-pocket expense on our end to get it there. If you choose Highland, be prepared for that, and stay on top of the builder daily to ensure things are completed correctly and on time. Without constant pressure, they will do it as cheaply as possible, probably still wrong, whenever they can get around to it. Good luck! ... More

Overall have been very satisfied with the quality and service from Highland.

Tough time to build and buy a new home. High prices with limited supplies and limited laborers. Our General Contractor, Dave, did a great job working through issues and working directly with us. Hard to believe we paid such a high price for the home and that’s no one’s fault it’s just the way it is in this current market.

We should be compensated for having to manage the completion of our home, post closing. This is our third new home in four years and this is by far the worst experience. The build process, the attention to detail, the finished product upon delivery at closing was despicable. Had interest rate‘s not been rising we would have made them complete it but my gut is they’re impotent when it comes to fine detail and quality as they were known a few years ago. Three months in our kitchen is still unfinished, we are still pressing the construction team to complete items every day. We have been managing a spreadsheet of simple things. I understand that the tradesmen are a major issue but Highland should add more staff or employed directly to obtain the level of completion and detail that we expect on an $800,000 house. It is so bad in our new neighborhood that a group of Highland owners gathered in the street and talked about a class action lawsuit because of the quality, workmanship, and issues that we are finding in the property. Add to the mix all the homes under construction, the beer cans the trash, the trash, the trash and it’s obvious why our homes are not finished. When you walk a property in there are alcohol containers inside or on the outside such as our house and our neighbors house that is a clue. We feel like educated, experienced, reasonable buyers since we’ve done this with two companies over three new homes across for years. This process that is still unfinished three months after closing Has been the worst nine months in our marriage because we have argued in battles over should we stay or should we go and that continues on a daily basis and that is all due to Highland lack of attention to detail or respect for customers. We will never buy from them again and every person that I talk to I tell our experience and advise them to avoid Highland homes. I feel for their local sales reps and construction lead, the main organization should do more to help the employees serve the customer. I likened our experience to their previous manager when I said have you ever stood on the assembly line of your new dodge pick up and made sure that the corporation was putting every piece where it needed to go, every fit and finish with perfect? Do you get frustrated when you have to take your vehicle back for a recall? We have purchased something that is 14 times the value of your truck and yet on a daily basis we are having to manage the construction and completion of this home and you would never go for that for your new pick up. Overall a horrible experience, and I don’t get angry as I look at my kitchen countertop that is still incomplete, missing molding, while I make coffee Everywhere in this house to include barn doors that are 2 inches too small for the opening is a reminder that unless we argue, push, fight for what we paid for Island homes will do their best to take advantage of us. ... More

For the most part the home is very nice. Quite a few of the finishes are cheap for the price we paid for the home and we've needed lots of things fixed, straightened, touched up, or replaced already. Somethings are fixed quickly and others have taken a very long time. Double check the listing you buy from as well. Ours said the house would come with gutters...it didn't, a double oven, it didn't, and other things like this.

I am reasonably disappointed with our home. I DO NOT think we got what we paid for. I have owned a number of homes over the years, several of them were new construction homes like this one. While this one was the most expensive by double, it was the least well constructed. Too many cost-cutting measures. As an example, for a home that cost over $750,000, EVERY home on our block has the exact same outdoor fixtures (excluding doors which are an option). The master bedroom closet is well appointed but the poles that hold hangers are extremely cheap and skinny 3/4 inch diameter instead of 1-1/2 inch wood poles as would be expected in a home of this price. It appears that subcontractors are either required or encouraged to slap their parts of the house together as quickly and cheaply as they can, and then they ARE PAID to come back and fix mistakes later. Tell me how this doesn't always end in the subcontractor being financially encouraged to screw up. We had to have nearly the entire roof replaced prior to closing due to just this kind of effort. The home is turned over to you in a manner described by the supervisor as "Contractor Clean" (His words and this was related to me by my neighbors as well). I would not want to live in a home with a contractor if this is the case. Just cleaning my floors required 4-5 hours with a Swifter and an entire box of Swifter pads. It was filthy. One of the guest bathroom tubs had a dent with rust in it prior to mounting COMPLETELY installed with tile around it so of course when shown prior to closing, all of the tile had to be removed in order to replace it. Two months after closing, we are still having to get things repaired not because they have failed, but simply because they were allowed to be left uncorrected. Outdoor fence was installed with only one nail on each support, randomly placed and disrepair a guaranteed occurrence with the first wind. I have never, ever had a home this poorly constructed. EVER. To their credit, the sales rep and the construction supervisor have a positive attitude and do make the effort to assist us but the people who make decisions over this process are clearly overpaid and underqualified. ... More

Sales team in Ventana is fabulous. However the shortages and manpower caused us numerous headaches. We had a list of over 50 uncompleted items when we moved in. After 3 months it is still not completed. Bette attention paid to this would be helpful. I do still think Highland builds a great home.

First off I want to say that through all the delays and issues the construction manager Mark has been wonderful. I have not been made to feel like Highland homes won’t make an effort to fix issues as they are brought up. Another positive is that Highland Homes has a policy that makes sure that once you place a deposit you lock in the current “price” so your insulated from price hikes… idk how useful that will be as the housing market is priming for a cool down… so maybe that’s a moot point. With that being said, if I could sum up the construction of our home in one word, it would be “sloppy”. It’s truly embarrassing and I would like to think that if a C-level representative from Highland Homes cared to tour a finished product, that they would be dumbfounded at the lack of craftsmanship and attention to detail that went into our home. You’ll walk through the model and think your buying a near custom level quality home but make no mistake — the same worker that is building 100k-200k homes are the same building 800k-1M homes and it shows. Bottom line if you don’t have to buy a house right now- don’t. And if you do, strap in because once you have keys in hand it doesn’t mean your house is actually done. Until Highland either changes contracted service providers or holds the people doing the work to a higher standard with more QA/QC nothing will be “fixed”. ... More

I closed and moved in before all items on the punch out list were completed and responsiveness to my issues took a very long time to coordinate and finish.

Highland Homes is an exceptional builder. The team effort from the true professional selling and selection experience to every aspect of the construction of your dream home. Highland is truly committed to making the home you want not just the home other builders wants to build. We shopped every builder in Davis Ranch and Highland stood out far above the others. We trust them so much we are building our second home for another family member with them. Highland Homes is your only stop if you are looking to build or buy in Davis Ranch...

Enjoyed the experience with the sales rep.