Chris FennellBakersfield REALTOR®

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New Construction Homes · Bakersfield & Kern County

About to tour a builder’s model home in Bakersfield?Go in the right order and the same budget buys more home.

Lennar · D.R. Horton · John Balfanz · LGI Homes · S&S Homes · K. Hovnanian

Cal Oak · Woodbridge Pacific · Snow Creek · Lucca · Farrow · Froehlich · Castle & Cooke · Bonadelle · Soper

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Call before you tour.

Going to the right builders in the right order is how you get the most house for your money.

Which builder gives you the most buying power depends on your down payment, loan product & credit — and on each builder’s current incentives, which change.

Same budget, more home. That’s the whole job.

Don’t walk into a model home alone.

Builders require agent registration before your first visit. Walk in without me and I can’t represent you on that home. One phone call protects it, and it takes two minutes.

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Not pre-qualified? Two numbers is enough to start.

You don’t need a pre-approval letter before we talk. Tell me what you have for a down payment and the monthly payment you’ve got to have. If you know your ballpark credit score, that helps too — if you don’t, we’ll figure it out.

That’s enough for me to tell you your real price range and which builders are worth your Saturday.

Budget-maxing starts with two numbers.

Rather just talk? That’s the faster way anyway.

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What the listing doesn’t tell you

HOA and Mello-Roos.
They don’t just raise your monthly — they count against you when the lender decides what you qualify for.
Solar: owned or leased.
Two homes at the same price are not the same purchase, and the listing usually won’t say which one you’re looking at.
Which incentives you can actually use.
A builder’s headline offer and what it’s worth on your loan are two different numbers.

I’ll tell you before you go, not after.

Every new-home community in Bakersfield and Shafter, and who builds it.

This is the whole map. Every one of these builders is running something different, and not one of them will tell you what the builder down the road is doing. Which of these is worth your Saturday depends on your down payment and your loan — that part is a phone call.

D.R. Horton

  • Abbey Court

    Southeast Bakersfield — Express Series — D.R. Horton's entry line.

  • West Village

    Southwest Bakersfield — Express Series, and the one with multigenerational floor plans.

  • East Village at Gosford

    Southwest Bakersfield — Inside the Village at Gosford master plan, next door to West Village.

  • Sterling Manor

    Southwest Bakersfield — Tradition Series — the step up from Express, four and five bedrooms.

  • Laurelwood at Magnolia Ranch

    Northwest Bakersfield — Three-car garages.

  • Alder CreekSold out

    Southwest Bakersfield

  • Brooke PointeComing soon

    Southwest Bakersfield

John Balfanz Homes

Local. Building in Bakersfield and Shafter since 1989, which is why you see the name on more communities here than anywhere else.

  • Northpoint

    Northwest Bakersfield

  • Almond Creek

    Northwest Bakersfield

  • Horizon South at Old River Ranch

    Southwest Bakersfield

  • Horizon North at Old River Ranch

    Southwest Bakersfield — A park is planned between the two Horizon neighborhoods.

  • Amberley

    Southwest Bakersfield — Not the same Amberley as Woodbridge Pacific's — two different builders, two different communities, one name.

  • Sycamore at Stockdale River Ranch

    Northwest Bakersfield

  • Snow Creek

    Northwest Bakersfield — Balfanz builds here too, with paid solar.

  • Golden Heights

    Southeast Bakersfield

LGI Homes

  • Harvest Grove

    Southwest Bakersfield — Solar and the appliance package are in the purchase price here, not options on top of it.

S&S Homes

  • Palmetto Estates

    Northwest Bakersfield

Castle & Cooke

The builder behind Highgate at Seven Oaks. All four are gated.

  • Highgate Place

    Seven Oaks, Southwest Bakersfield

  • Highgate Park

    Seven Oaks, Southwest Bakersfield

  • Highgate Regents

    Seven Oaks, Southwest Bakersfield — 55+.

  • Highgate Shires

    Seven Oaks, Southwest Bakersfield — Custom lots — you bring your own builder.

Woodbridge Pacific Group

The builder behind Belcourt at Seven Oaks.

  • Mahogany at Belcourt

    Seven Oaks, Southwest Bakersfield

  • AmberleyComing soon

    Southwest Bakersfield — Pre-sales only, and a different Amberley from the Balfanz one above.

K. Hovnanian

  • Aspire at Cypress Crossings

    Southwest Bakersfield

  • Aspire at Davis Ranch

    Northeast Bakersfield

Froehlich Signature Homes

  • The Enclave at Buena Vista

    Southwest Bakersfield — Owned solar, included.

  • Old River Village

    Southwest Bakersfield

Bonadelle Neighborhoods

  • Palm Crossing

    Northwest Bakersfield, at Allen and Olive — No HOA.

Snow Creek & WD Estates

Cal Oak, Lucca and Farrow all build inside here. Two homes on the same street can come with completely different terms, because they are not the same builder.

  • Snow Creek

    Northwest Bakersfield

  • WD Estates

    Northwest Bakersfield

Lennar

  • Gardens at Encanto

    Southwest Bakersfield

  • Beneva Glen

    Southwest Bakersfield

  • Marcona Preserve

    Shafter, at Jewetta and 7th Standard — About nine miles from downtown Bakersfield.

  • Gossamer GroveComing soon

    Shafter, off 7th Standard

Community list verified August 23, 2026. Sold-out and coming-soon status changes without notice — call me before you plan a Saturday around any of them.

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Chris Fennell — Bakersfield REALTOR® since 2002. DRE #01338329.

Local, independent, and easy to reach.

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