Land Tejas

Name

Land Tejas

Legal name

Land Tejas

Website

https://landtejas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Master-planned community development

NAICS

Land Subdivision (23721)

SIC

Land Subdividers & Developers (No Cemeteries) (6552)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Land Development & Subdivision Homebuilding (Build-to-Sell Communities) (IMAFABAL)

Keywords

• Master-planned communities
• Residential land development
• Community amenity development
• Lot sales to builders
• Build-to-rent housing

Headquarters

HQ city

Houston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Land Development & Lot Sales: Land Tejas acquires land, develops master-planned communities with infrastructure, utilities, amenities, and then sells individual lots to homebuilders. Revenue comes from lot sales to builder partners.
2. Commercial Development: Commercial development within mixed-use master-planned communities, including retail, dining, and everyday conveniences co-located with residential developments.
3. Build-to-Rent Program: Partnership with Wan Bridge to develop build-to-rent townhomes within communities. Land Tejas provides land while partners handle construction and property management.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Land Tejas acquires, develops, and markets master-planned residential communities across the greater Houston, Texas metropolitan area. The company delivers entitled, amenitized land infrastructure—including gated neighborhoods, utilities, clubhouses, pools, fitness centers, and Crystal Lagoons® lagoon amenities—and sells finished residential lots to a network of affiliated homebuilder partners (10–18 builders per community) who construct and sell homes to end buyers. Land Tejas also develops commercial parcels within its mixed-use communities and operates a build-to-rent townhome program in partnership with Wan Bridge.

Product overview

Land Tejas is a master-planned community developer offering a portfolio of residential communities across the Houston metropolitan area. The company's core offering consists of master-planned communities (including Balmoral, Lago Mar, Sunterra, Marvida, Sierra Vista, and Sterling Lakes) that combine residential homes with world-class amenities. The signature amenity is Crystal Lagoons® — patented lagoon technology featuring turquoise waters and white sand beaches. The portfolio also includes commercial development within communities and various lifestyle features such as resort-style pools, clubhouses, fitness centers, and recreational facilities. Land Tejas operates as a real estate developer, not a technology company, and does not offer software products, APIs, or AI-powered features.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Sunterra achieved #1 Texas and #3 nationally with 669 sales (49% year-over-year increase)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• Wan BridgemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 March 2022Partnership with Texas-based Wan Bridge to expand build-to-rent (BTR) program across Land Tejas communities. Expected pipeline of 1,000+ BTR units across Texas, starting with 200 townhomes at Clearwater at Balmoral. Wan Bridge builds and operates BTR communities while Land Tejas provides land and community context.
• Crystal Lagoons® CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership with Crystal Lagoons® Corporation for specialized amenity and entertainment ventures. Crystal Lagoons® provides patented lagoon technology and world-class beach amenities. Land Tejas was the first to bring Crystal Lagoons® to Texas with Balmoral's 2-acre lagoon in 2018, followed by Lago Mar's 12-acre lagoon.
• Lagoon DevelopmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLagoon Development Company is a Land Tejas affiliated entity led by founder and president Uri Man (former CEO of Crystal Lagoons® U.S. Corp). Responsible for design, financial feasibility, capitalization, and profitability of public access lagoon components across Texas communities.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Howard Hughes Holdings: Howard Hughes Holdings is a publicly-traded master-planned community developer with major Houston-area communities including Bridgeland and The Woodlands. Both companies follow the same playbook: acquire raw land, entitle and amenitize master-planned communities, and sell finished lots to homebuilder partners — making it the most direct peer to Land Tejas in Houston.
• FivePoint Holdings: FivePoint is a large-scale master-planned community developer focused on entitlement and infrastructure of mixed-use communities such as Great Park in Irvine and Valencia in LA County. It mirrors Land Tejas's land-development-first model, scaling raw acreage into amenitized communities for builders.
• Crescent Communities: Crescent Communities is a privately-held real estate developer that builds master-planned and mixed-use communities across the Southeast and Texas. It is structurally analogous to Land Tejas as a regional MPC developer selling lots and homesites to builder partners within amenitized communities.
• Shea Homes: Shea Homes is a large private homebuilder active in Texas that also operates a community development arm building master-planned communities. The integrated builder-developer model has direct overlap with Land Tejas's multi-builder community approach, particularly in the Houston and broader Texas market.
• Darling Homes: Darling Homes is a Houston-focused homebuilder with deep presence in master-planned communities across the metro. It is both a potential builder partner for Land Tejas communities and a competitor in the Houston MPC builder/developer space.
• HistoryMaker Homes: HistoryMaker Homes is a Texas-based homebuilder active in many Land Tejas communities (e.g., a builder partner in Sierra Vista). It is a direct Houston-area peer operating in the same for-sale housing ecosystem.
• Brightland Homes: Brightland Homes is a Houston-based private homebuilder operating in the new-construction single-family segment across the metro area. It is comparable in geography and product, competing for the same family-homebuyer pool that buys in Land Tejas communities.

Broad incumbents

• TRI Pointe Homes: TRI Pointe Homes is a national publicly-traded homebuilder with operations in Texas (including Houston) and an integrated land development strategy. As a broader homebuilder that also develops communities, it competes indirectly with Land Tejas for land positions, builder-driven community deals, and end-buyer demand.
• Woodside Homes: Woodside Homes is a private integrated homebuilder with active presence in Houston-area master-planned communities. As a builder partner archetype that also operates in MPCs directly, it is comparable to Land Tejas's builder-partner model.
• Toll Brothers: Toll Brothers is a large publicly-traded luxury homebuilder with Texas operations including Houston. It competes for premium buyer segments in Land Tejas communities and maintains its own land development pipeline, making it a comparable broader incumbent in the Houston for-sale housing market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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