Market Snapshot: Land Signals in Florida Housing Development

In the next 12-24 months, Florida’s housing market will be shaped by where builders are buying land today. By tracking builder land acquisitions, the Acres^® Home Builder Index provides a snapshot into where the market is headed before land is entitled and homes are built.

Here are key insights from the Index:

• Big picture: Production builders have acquired >50,000 acres between 2020 and 2025.
• Slowed state-wide growth: Year-over-year growth rates on home builder land purchases have dipped into negative territory in 2025.
• Builder spend: Florida’s top 10 builders alone have poured over $13B into large sites and entitled plots.

Graphics represent total open land purchase amounts by top 10 Florida builders, 2020-2025 (left). Map represents build land acquisition expansion, 2020-2025 (right).

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The Acres Home Builder Index helps you identify growth corridors long before they appear in traditional housing reports. With future-state land intelligence and entity tracking, Acres turns guesswork into strategy. Contact our team today to get access.