Custom Homes on Your Land in Indiana

Seventeen Indiana counties across four build areas. Around Indianapolis: Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson and Marion. Around Fort Wayne: Allen, DeKalb, Kosciusko, Noble, Steuben and Whitley. Clark County, across the river from Louisville, is built by our Louisville team, and Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio and Ripley counties in the southeast corner are built by our Cincinnati and Dayton teams out of Lebanon, Ohio. If your parcel is a county past the list, call the nearest center. We build a county or two past the line when the drive makes sense for our field team.

Indiana has townships, but they do not issue building permits. On unincorporated land the county plan commission issues the Improvement Location Permit and the building permit under the 2020 Indiana Residential Code, and the county inspects. Inside a city the city does it: Carmel's Department of Community Services, Fishers, Noblesville and Westfield each run their own building office, and Indianapolis issues permits for Marion County. In Allen County one building department covers Fort Wayne and the unincorporated county. Our land profile records which office on day one, and we pull the permits.

Yes. Indiana's residential onsite sewage rule, 410 IAC 6-8.3, requires an on-site soil evaluation before the county health department will issue a septic permit, and the system must be installed by a state-registered installer. Hamilton, Boone, Hendricks, Allen and the other counties each administer the state rule with their own ordinance on top. We schedule the soil evaluation as part of your land profile so the system design and its cost are known before you sign.

It depends which end of the state. Central Indiana is the Tipton Till Plain: flat glacial clay with a high water table, so basements are routine but drainage, perimeter drains and the sump are planned, not assumed. Northeast Indiana is moraine and lake country, with gravelly outwash, clay-rich till and kettle lakes in Kosciusko, Noble and Steuben, where lake lots need extra care with septic. Southern and southeast Indiana sit on thin soil over limestone, with sinkhole-prone karst in Clark County and shallow rock in Dearborn and Ripley, so rock excavation gets its own line in the estimate.

Usually. Indiana issues no state permit for a private residential well, but the well must be drilled by a state-licensed driller who files the well record with the Department of Natural Resources within 30 days, and some counties, Marion among them, require a health department well permit first. The well has to keep its setbacks from your septic system. Where a utility or rural water line is within reach, we estimate the tap fee and the run the same way so you can compare on paper.

Usually, with a floodplain review first. Indiana's Department of Natural Resources must issue a construction in a floodway permit before the county can release a building permit for anything in a mapped floodway, and local ordinances put the lowest floor two feet above the base flood elevation. The White River and its forks, the Eel, the three rivers at Fort Wayne and the Ohio in Clark and Dearborn counties all carry FEMA floodplain. Elevation and fill are estimated with the lot, not discovered later.

Yes. The Casoria, our 3,800 square foot model in Leo, is the Fort Wayne sales and design center. Around Indianapolis, our sales and design center on Meeting House Road in Carmel meets by appointment. Southern Indiana families are welcome at The Weller, our award-winning model in Louisville, and the southeast corner at The Vineyard in Lebanon, Ohio.