New Construction Across the Wasatch Front: Early-November 2026 Update

The early-November new construction calendar is the year-end window at full throttle: model grand openings are landing, the biggest master plans are converting coming-soon flags into selling communities, and builders are pricing inventory to clear before New Year. Toll Brothers opened sales at Westlake Vistas in Saratoga Springs, Garbett's Mosaic holds its grand opening in South Jordan on Saturday, October 24, David Weekley's The Dawn is the newest model field in Daybreak, and Richmond American refreshed entry pricing at Great Basin in Herriman's Olympia.

This early-November 2026 update covers the new neighborhoods and model home openings you can tour over the next two weeks, the construction milestones that actually changed since our late-October / early-November report, builder announcements across Daybreak, South Jordan, Herriman, Lehi, Saratoga Springs, West Jordan, and the outer collar of Riverton, Bluffdale, and Eagle Mountain, and the builder comparison picture heading into the strongest negotiating quarter of the year. If you are weighing a new build before the year-end inventory window, this is the freshest picture we have published.

Daybreak (South Jordan): Mosaic's Grand Opening Lands This Saturday, and The Dawn Debuts

The most bookable new-construction event on the entire Wasatch Front calendar lands this weekend: Garbett Homes' Mosaic grand opening on Saturday, October 24. Mosaic, the energy-efficient townhome community near the Daybreak edge in South Jordan, moved from pre-selling into active homebuilding over the summer, and the finished product is now ready to present at its grand-opening event. Entry pricing runs from about $469,900, which keeps it one of the lowest-cost ways into the Daybreak market without leaving the master plan's orbit, and Garbett has attached grand-opening incentives of up to $25,000 to $30,000 on select homes, so this is the weekend the price math gets its most readable form. If you are comparing townhome product in the south end of the county, October 24 is the marker.

The second storyline out of Daybreak is the freshly furnished model field. David Weekley's The Dawn at Daybreak, the builder's townhome community in the master plan, is actively selling with homes roughly in the $450,000 to $580,000 band and the Rigel model now on site, which gives Weekley buyers finished product to walk rather than renderings. It joins the 18 furnished models across the Watermark South and North hubs and the 28-model collection at Cascade Village, so a Saturday built around Mosaic's opening can cover the full spectrum from entry townhome to luxury single-family without leaving the master plan.

Around the model fields, the district keeps maturing. Phase two of Downtown Daybreak's residential build is waist-deep in construction: the first 31 townhomes are rising at Grandville Avenue and Center Field Drive, including the live/work units with ground-floor retail from Destination Homes, Holmes Homes, and Sego Homes. The Pennant, the 190-unit multifamily building beside the ballpark at America First Square, welcomed its first households through the fall leasing season. The Larry H. & Gail Miller Arts Center celebrated its groundbreaking in late March, the Watermark Village pool and Watercourse expansion stay scheduled for summer 2027, and new dining names including Nomad Eatery, Naraya by Sawadee Thai, Rockwell Ice Cream Co., and Jolley's Corner have joined the district's lineup this year. Two fresher entries on the product map: Hearthstone Villas from Leisure Villas in the 55+ conversation, and Oakwood's Floret Collection at SpringHouse Village, which keeps the active-adult end of Daybreak supplied.

One incentive note specific to Daybreak: the developer's QMI dues-paid offer, covering qualifying community dues for contracts closed between October 16 and December 31, 2026, gives year-end buyers a concrete, verifiable credit to fold into the full-cost math. Ask for it in writing at every builder's sales office in the master plan, because the terms differ by collection.

Utah City (Vineyard): The Bend Towers Fill With Residents, and Huntsman Climbs

Utah City's first vertical chapters are now live. The 120 Bend and 220 Bend apartment buildings, together more than 450 units, are open and leasing in the urban core, which means the master plan's downtown math has moved from renderings to a real walking population. Bella's Market remains Vineyard's first grocery store, Fini Pizza serves its New York-style pies on the main street, Berliner Park and the first segments of the 12-acre Greenline are open, and the FrontRunner station has connected the site since 2022. The amenity docket adds an LVBL racquet club with tennis, pickleball, and padel courts that was slated for a summer 2026 opening, and a wellness recovery center broke ground this year.

The honest counterpoint still deserves airtime. A mid-October examination in the Salt Lake Tribune asked whether Utah City's walkable downtown can succeed amid the sprawl around it and the backlash to density that has trailed the project, and that is a real question. The first phases answer it slowly: leasing and foot-traffic numbers over the next two years will tell the story better than any rendering. For buyers the practical read is unchanged: Utah City is the most transit-forward and urban master plan on our coverage list, it prices accordingly, and spring 2027 remains the Broad Street construction date to watch.

The Point (Draper): Chroma's Mix Sharpens, the Hotel Parcel Firms Up, and the River District RFP Stays On the Calendar

The Point, the 600-plus-acre master-planned development on the former Utah State Prison site, is roughly six months past its ceremonial vertical groundbreaking on June 29, and the first residential building's story keeps sharpening. Chroma, the 363-unit mixed-use building along the I-15 corridor, carries about 42,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, and roughly 45 of its units are reserved at 60 to 80 percent of area median income, which keeps The Point's early phases a mixed-income story rather than a purely luxury one. Next in the pipeline, the planned 175-room hotel on Parcel H5B and the mixed-use tower on Parcel H5A, which is tracking a delivery around early 2029. Together they anchor the first 104-acre downtown district whose social core is The Promenade, a roughly 2,000-foot walkable main street under construction, beside the naming-rights deal that made the roughly 5,000-seat venue the Mountain America Event Center.

The for-sale headline remains the River District. The Land Authority's July call sought roughly 800 to 900 owner-occupied homes on about 50 acres between the boulevard and a future FrontRunner station, a mandatory pre-proposal meeting was held July 16, finalist teams were shortlisted over the late summer, and the request for proposals to the selected team is expected this fall. No builder has been publicly named yet, and the realistic expectations hold: for-sale vertical construction is not expected until spring 2028, so the first single-family closings at The Point are still not a 2027 event. Around it, the University of Utah Health agreement, a roughly $43.5 million purchase of about 46 acres, makes U of U Health the exclusive health care provider for the district, and Porter Rockwell Boulevard, the development's first road, is finishing out this year. For the full phasing debate, our What The Point Means for the Wasatch Front article is the place to start.

Herriman: Great Basin's Refreshed Entry Pricing, and Panorama's First Plat Still Pending

Herriman remains the largest new construction supply zone in Salt Lake County, and the pricing news at Olympia is the kind buyers notice. At the roughly 930-acre master plan west of town, Richmond American's Great Basin, the flagship collection with nine floor plans in single-family and paired-home product, now lists from about $424,990, a refreshed entry point that puts the community's starter line near the $425,000 mark with homes running up to roughly 2,900 square feet. Higher on the ladder, Creek Ridge Cove spans about $624,990 to $847,716 on 2,000 to 3,135 square feet, and Teton Ranch runs from about $754,990 to $1,008,990 with ranch and two-story plans including RV-garage options. That means Olympia still spans the full range from sub-$430K entry product to the seven-figure mark in one address, and the year-end inventory window makes the spread worth touring.

Around Olympia, the active collections keep their shape: Hidden Oaks from Ivory Homes sells its Collection from about $719,500 to $729,500 and its Cottages from about $634,500 to $669,490 on larger west-side lots, and Rosecrest, the older DAI master plan nearby, has effectively built out, with D.R. Horton's Villages at Rosecrest sold out. That quietly raises the value of the fresh inventory still selling. The newer name stays at Panorama, the roughly 555-to-640-acre proposed mixed-use community in southeast Herriman: Pagoda Grove by McArthur Homes and Fieldstone Homes both hold coming-soon flags inside the site, and the timing question remains when the first plat clears, not whether. When it does, Panorama becomes the next wide-open inventory event in Herriman, with fresh entry product right off the Mountain View Corridor. Our explainer Olympia: What to Know About the 930-Acre Development covers both sides of that story, and if your tour route runs through the southwest valley, the real-life Up house at Herriman Rose Boulevard makes a fun detour.

Lehi: Inverness's Townhome Line Sharpens, and Lakeview Estates Nears Its Final Doors

Lehi's volume engine keeps pacing, and the newest detail at D.R. Horton's Inverness is the townhome line. The roughly 1,200-acre master-planned community east of I-15 near the Timpanogos Highway corridor keeps moving through Plat D, its newest release with 278 single-family homes and 126 townhomes on a site that preserves roughly 472 acres of open space near the Lehi Utah Temple and beside Belmont Elementary and Viewpoint Middle School. Entry single-family runs from the low $400s, the Overton townhome sits near the $504,990 marker, and the Torren plan, from about $1.25 million, tops the catalog, which makes Inverness one of the few Utah County master plans where one sign covers everything from entry townhome to the seven-figure mark.

Ivory Homes continues to layer addresses across Lehi. The four sub-communities at Holbrook keep selling, and the reserved-side line has firmed up: Holbrook Farms offers quick move-ins from about $716,400, Holbrook Place Collection runs from about $620,000, and Holbrook Place Estates sits in the $1 million-plus band at the top of the community. The Jordan Walk Towns from about $416,500 and the Scandia Cottages from the mid-$540s keep the entry end supplied. At the luxury end, Toll Brothers' Lakeview Estates, the 52-home community at the highest point of Traverse Mountain, announced its final-opportunity phase back in March with roughly four homes remaining from about $1.15 million, and with year-end approaching, the premium new-construction headline in Lehi is genuinely reaching its endgame rather than adding phases. For buyers comparing the two Utah County powerhouses, our Lehi versus Saratoga Springs comparison walks through how they divide by commute, price, and lifestyle.

Saratoga Springs: Westlake Vistas Opens Sales, and Wildflower's Builder Trio Widens

The headline out of Saratoga Springs is a coming-soon flag that became a selling community. Toll Brothers has opened sales at Westlake Vistas, the luxury community now priced from about $850,000, with listings running into the $1.18 million range on plans of about 4,000 to 5,250 square feet with six and seven bedrooms. That makes it Toll Brothers' second active Saratoga Springs address alongside the $815,000-plus community at Wildflower, and it shifts the city's premium-end conversation: where buyers once drove to Lakeview Estates in Lehi for top-of-market Toll product, they now have a second door in the county's most construction-dense city. The city continues to track roughly 635 new residential units per year with 860-plus active development projects, so the supply story stays deep.

The mid-market story at Wildflower, the roughly 1,200-acre buildout at 2100 North and Redwood Road, keeps its builder trio in motion. Lennar's Valley at Wildflower covers the entry end from the $400s with Everything's Included pricing, Toll Brothers at Wildflower sells the top band from about $815,000 with ADU options, and EDGEhomes' Wildflower 2.0 runs from the $570s with a community pool, pickleball courts, and Utah Lake views, now flagging a new Villages collection as coming soon. The planned lake and dog park stay on the horizon for the newest series.

At Wander, Oakwood Homes' master plan on Utah Lake's north shore, the sales floor is as deep as any in Utah County: five home collections, an 18-model complex called Wanderland, 27 floor plans from about 880 to 2,771 square feet, and entry pricing from about $299,990, with Richmond American's Springs Village at Wander, roughly 60 gated homes, selling from about $740,000 to $810,000. The city's approvals for the Wander 2 Community Plan and the Wander Village Plan updates, plus Village 3 plats, keep the next village phases queued behind this fall's selling. Beacon Pointe, David Weekley's community at 903 Halvorsen Parkway, now has its V2 plat amendment moving through the review queue as a second revision, with the current phase selling from about $551,990 to $630,000 and a new phase flagged coming soon, and the city's docket stays busy with Pelican Point, Andover, Evans Estates, Lighthouse Cove, and the rest of the pending list. Our deep dives cover Wander on Utah Lake and the Wildflower buildout guide in detail.

Terraine (West Jordan): Five Builders, a Fresher Catalog, and the Land Still Doing the Talking

Terraine, roughly 630 acres of far-west West Jordan in the West Bench with about 2,800 homes planned at full build-out and roughly 214 acres preserved as foothill open space, stays the single widest active builder spread at one address in the county. Tri Pointe's Polaris sold through its available inventory, closing the modern-foothill-styling chapter of the community's first selling wave, and David Weekley opened the Egret model at the Reverie Collection, so comparison shoppers can tour fresh finished product rather than renderings. The roughly 170 homes delivered so far keep The Shed and The Plunge busy, which means models here are still judged against a graded, planted, walkable loop rather than a dirt farm.

The surviving field runs five deep. Rainey Homes holds the top of the range with the Northlight Collection on 70-by-100-foot lots starting in the $900,000s and the Orion Collection from the $800,000s; David Weekley sells the Aura Collection on 42-foot homesites from about $599,990 and the Reverie Collection on 50-foot homesites from about $735,990; Ivory offers Terraine Towns townhomes from about $395,000 plus its Terraine single-family collection; Sego Homes fills the entry slots with a roughly 75-home collection, quick move-ins available, from about $437,000 to $559,000; and Perry Homes keeps a west-valley line with about $21,000 toward a rate buydown or closing costs on select communities. With Polaris closed and a new model open, the floor-plan catalog at every surviving builder has changed in the last month, so walk it with a plan and treat October's pricing as a floor, not a finish line.

Riverton, Bluffdale, and Eagle Mountain: Quiet Chapters, Moving Pieces

The outer collar keeps composing quietly across the edges of the metro. In Riverton, Alpine Homes' Riverton Cove remains open for sale at about 12900 South 1830 West with a furnished model on site and roughly 11 home sites from about $715,000, one of the few true brand-new community moments left in the corridor. Ivory's Harvest Gardens 55+ community and Harvest Gardens Villas stay move-in ready, with the Villas from around $564,000, and David Weekley's The Homestead, the Riverton 55+ community, is sold out, which quietly raises the value of the remaining active-adult inventory nearby.

In Bluffdale, EDGEhomes' Independence Village has closed out its builder inventory, so the affordable gateway to The Point now lives in resale rather than new construction, and the city's signature 14600 South railroad crossing project keeps marching: the roughly $77 million project replaces the old one-way underpass with a wider two-way, four-lane tunnel, with completion projected in early 2027. Eagle Mountain stays the value frontier of the western valley. At Oquirrh Mountain Ranch, Oakwood Homes' Brio Collection sells from the low $500s near Utah Lake, joined by LGI Homes with roughly a dozen floor plans from about $440,000, and Ivory's Overland, a master plan planned for more than 3,000 homes, keeps adding lines with Overland Cottages coming to market, alongside Rose Ranch from EDGEhomes, Antelope Meadows from Fieldstone, Juniper at Harmony from Meritage, and Richmond American's Eagle Mountain portfolio.

Highland, Cedar Hills, and the Murray Corridor: The Quiet Ends of the Market

The quiet ends of the market are not actually quiet. In Highland, Ivory's Ridgeview leads the newer-community list with Ridgeview Scandia Cottages from about $709,900 and Ridgeview Estates from about $1,177,500. In Cedar Hills, a new community is flagged with a 2027 groundbreaking anticipated, and David Weekley's Cedar Canyon, just across the line in Pleasant Grove, keeps models open daily with the Spectra plan from about $596,990. In the Murray, Midvale, and Sandy corridor, Garbett Homes is the most active builder: The Gallery at Bullion in Murray keeps its 69-home community of townhomes and single-family homes selling from the $500s, The Mill in Midvale keeps Zero Energy Ready homes near $669,900 to $724,900, and Garbett's Urbana in Draper, from the $680s, is a reminder that new construction is not only a west-valley story.

Late-October / Early-November Builder Incentives: The Year-End Menu as of This Week

The incentive stack is what separates a headline price from a real deal this fall, and heading into the year-end window the menu is the most aggressive we have tracked in this cycle. Utah County builders are commonly putting $15,000 to $60,000 on the table, and industry watchers peg overall incentive value at up to 10 percent of a home's price in some campaigns. Here is the practical menu as of October 22, 2026; every single item is time-limited and verification with the builder's own lender is mandatory:

Stacking still matters. The Utah first-time homebuyer assistance, roughly $20,000 in an interest-free, payment-free soft second loan for qualifying households on newly built homes under $450,000, multiplies the value of the entry ends of Great Basin at Olympia, Capitol Reef's condo line, Eagle Mountain, and parts of the Terraine townhome line. And the October 1 ADU changes under Senate Bill 284 remain in force, so ask each builder which floor plans carry ADU-ready options and what the city approval path looks like. For anyone rate-sensitive, treat the buydown as math, not magic: the money disappears into principal quickly, and the honest comparison is effective true price, which is the incentive minus any neighborhood premium minus the total cost of ownership across an eight-year horizon. That is the worksheet we run with every client before a single model visit.

Builder Comparison: Who's Building Where Heading Into November

The fall field is wide, and the year-end window is when builders show their real hand. Here is the active map as of late October:

The golden rule at this time of year holds: builders would rather sell down inventory before year-end than carry it into January, and that reality is on the buyer's side between now and New Year. Plats, prices, and incentives change fast, so use this as a map to prioritize, not a menu to bake. For the full evergreen comparison of how these builders do business, our comprehensive New Construction guide and builder comparison runs a longer table with the philosophy behind each team.

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