Toll Brothers Tri Pointe Plan Project in Tomball

Two national homebuilding heavyweights are again partnering on a project tied to Houston’s outer-ring growth, stitching together a rare large-scale land assemblage for a new master-planned community near Tomball.

Toll Brothers and Tri Pointe Homes closed on 445 acres along Telge Road just north of the Grand Parkway in northwest Harris County last week, the Houston Business Journal reported. The deal stands out not just for its size, but for the complexity behind it: Eight separate landowning families agreed to sell in a coordinated transaction that took years to complete.

Land Advisors Organization broker Kirk Laguarta told the publication that the assemblage was highly unusual, noting the sellers gave the buyers time to secure entitlements and navigate drainage and utility approvals — often a major hurdle in the region. The firm represented both the buyers and most of the sellers, alongside NewQuest Properties and other brokers on remaining tracts.

Plans for the unnamed development call for 919 single-family homes across lots ranging from 45 feet to 80 feet wide. The community is expected to include lakes, waterways, parks and recreational space, aligning with the amenity-driven formula that continues to dominate suburban Houston development.

Homes are projected to start in the $400,000s and top $1 million, placing the project squarely in the luxury buyer segment, according to the outlet. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania-based Toll Brothers and Incline Village, Nevada-based Tri Pointe are expected to split construction roughly evenly, with Houston-based LJA Engineering handling civil work. Groundbreaking is anticipated in late 2026 or early 2027.

According to Laguarta, few similarly sized tracts remain in the immediate area, making the assemblage particularly valuable as builders compete for scale.

The deal highlights the economics driving land consolidation. That is, by combining parcels, developers can spread infrastructure costs like drainage across a larger area, dramatically improving feasibility, according to the outlet. In this case, solving drainage for hundreds of acres cost only marginally more than addressing it for a fraction of the land, creating efficiencies that individual sellers couldn’t achieve alone.

The project adds to a wave of nearby master-planned activity. Johnson Development is building the 554-acre Amira community a few miles west, while Toll Brothers and Tri Pointe are already partnering on multiple Houston-area developments, including Evergrove in Fort Bend County, another project where the developers are splitting development of similarly-sized lots roughly evenly.

— Eric Weilbacher