Picture your home in Wake County.
Explore our current communities, available homes, and custom building options across Raleigh, Wake Forest, Wendell, and North Raleigh.
Explore available homes and custom building opportunities in Raleigh, North Raleigh, Wake Forest and Wendell.
If you are shopping for new homes in Wake County, NC, the useful question is not whether the county is a good place to live. It is what is actually available and what it costs. McNeill Burbank builds only in Wake County, in four communities: Wendell Falls in Wendell, Lowery Estates in Wake Forest, Burnette North in North Raleigh, and our Inside the Beltline homes in Raleigh. There are 10 homes for sale across those four communities today, priced from $420,900 to $2,250,000, plus more coming soon.
| Community | Town | For sale now | Price band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendell Falls | Wendell | 4 | $420,900 to $499,900 |
| Raleigh Inside the Beltline | Raleigh | 2 | $1,880,000 to $2,250,000 |
| Lowery Estates | Wake Forest | 2 | $1,349,000 to $1,399,000 |
| Burnette North | North Raleigh | 2 | $1,250,000 to $1,290,000 |
Wendell Falls, WendellWendell Falls is where our range starts. Four homes are for sale between $420,900 and $499,900, the most accessible new construction we build anywhere in the county. It suits first-time buyers and anyone who wants a new construction home in Wake County without stretching into the seven-figure bands further west. See what is currently released in new homes in Wendell. |
Raleigh Inside the BeltlineTwo homes are available Inside the Beltline, from $1,880,000 to $2,250,000. These are infill builds on individual lots in established Raleigh neighborhoods, so the setting is a mature street rather than a new subdivision. The buyer has usually already decided on the location and wants a new house in it. Browse the Inside the Beltline homes. |
Lowery Estates, Wake ForestLowery Estates has two homes for sale, at $1,349,000 and $1,399,000. It is our Wake Forest address, and it draws buyers who want a larger custom home on a settled north-county street. Current availability is on the Lowery Estates page. |
Burnette North, North RaleighBurnette North has two homes for sale, at $1,250,000 and $1,290,000. North Raleigh keeps you inside the city, with quicker access to north side employers and shopping than the outer-county communities allow. Current homes are on the Burnette North page. |
Most pages on this search will not give you a number. Here is ours, taken straight from the homes we have listed: $420,900 at the bottom in Wendell, $2,250,000 at the top Inside the Beltline, and two bands in between, $1,250,000 to $1,290,000 in North Raleigh and $1,349,000 to $1,399,000 in Wake Forest.
Four things move a build inside that spread. The lot moves it hardest, which is why an infill lot Inside the Beltline and a homesite in Wendell are not in the same conversation. Then square footage, then finish level, which is where two identical floor plans separate by six figures. Last, whether you bring your own land, because that takes the largest single line off the price.
Buyers here qualify a house by its school assignment, and "Wake County" is usually the shorthand for it. Every community on this page sits inside the county and is served by the Wake County Public School System, a single countywide district.
The caveat matters more than the district name. Assignment is made by address, not by neighborhood, and the county grows fast enough that boundaries move. Before you commit to a homesite for school reasons, check the current assignment for that specific address with the district.
Plenty of Wake County buyers already have the land. They inherited a lot, bought a teardown Inside the Beltline, or hold acreage out toward Wendell. We build on client-owned land as well as inside our own communities, and it is a real part of what we do rather than an exception.
The advantage is straightforward. Land is the largest variable in a Wake County build, so owning it removes the biggest unknown before design starts. What is left is the house itself: the plan, the size, the finishes, and how it sits on the site you already chose. If that is your situation, start with our page on how we build on your own lot.
Most of the volume on this search comes from national production builders, and the difference between them and a custom home builder in Wake County is worth understanding before you tour anything.
A production builder sells a fixed plan with a defined options list, and the answer to most change requests is no. We work the other way: the home gets changed and customized to suit the buyer, including in places a large builder will not open up.
The second difference is how the choosing works. Our designer hand-selects a starting set of finishes for each home, so you begin from a coherent package rather than a catalog with thousands of permutations, and you change what you want from there. It removes the part of the process that exhausts people without removing the control.
The third is what happens after closing. We build to a standard meant to outlast the competition, which is a claim best tested by walking a finished home and asking what is behind the drywall.
Explore our current communities, available homes, and custom building options across Raleigh, Wake Forest, Wendell, and North Raleigh.
Choose a home in one of our Wake County communities or work with McNeill Burbank to build on land you already own. We can help you compare available homes, communities, and custom building options based on your budget and plans.
