Manor House Builders

What Manor House Builders does

Manor House Builders is a privately held residential home construction company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hagerstown, Maryland. The company designs, builds, and sells single-family new construction homes across three named communities — Amberfield in Falling Waters, West Virginia (Berkeley County); Evans Run in Maryland; and Paradise Heights in Washington County, Maryland — with a portfolio of approximately 14 floor plan models (including The Belvedere, The Westmoreland, The Fairmont, The Fairmont Multi-Gen, The Jackson, and others). It serves home buyers in Washington County and Frederick County, Maryland, and Berkeley County, West Virginia, areas the company has selected for quality schools and lower tax environments.

The company generates revenue primarily through one-time home sales, offering both move-in-ready ("Move In Now") inventory homes and custom builds, with home prices ranging roughly from $309,900 to $355,000+. A Build on Your Lot program extends serviceable geography to any Washington, Frederick, or Berkeley County lot, and a Manor House Improvements sub-brand offers post-purchase home improvement services. The business model is direct-to-consumer: sales occur at on-site model homes staffed by company sales personnel (open Thursday through Sunday) and through community sales offices in Maryland and West Virginia, supplemented by website content, blog, and Facebook marketing. West Virginia sales operations are handled by licensed broker Hilton Charles Smith III.

The underlying business relies on conventional home-building trades and project execution rather than proprietary technology; the website is WordPress-based and no AI, software platform, or tech-product differentiator is disclosed. A 10-year structural warranty is provided through a partnership with Quality Builders Warranty Corporation, and a dedicated mortgage origination relationship with First Home Mortgage (with branch manager Cathy Ocharzak) supports buyer financing. The company has expanded to South Carolina through a separately branded affiliate, Manor House SC, indicating a geographic extension beyond its core Mid-Atlantic footprint. Headcount is reported at 1-10 employees, signaling a small, owner-operator-style organization whose revenue scale is concentrated in low-single-digit-million-dollar territory.

Name

Manor House Builders

Legal name

Manor House Builders

Website

https://manorhousebuilders.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Manor House Builders is a privately held, Hagerstown, Maryland-based residential home builder founded in 1992 that constructs and sells single-family new construction homes across three communities in Washington and Frederick County, Maryland, and Berkeley County, West Virginia, serving individual home buyers through on-site model home sales and a Build on Your Lot program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Home Construction

NAICS

New Housing For-Sale Builders (236117), Residential Building Construction (23611)

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Residential Bldgs (1520), Land Subdividers & Developers (No Cemeteries) (6552)

akta.pro primary industry

Spec Home / Production Homebuilding (Tract & Volume Builders) (IMAFABAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

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

Keywords

• Residential home construction
• New home builder
• Single-family homes
• Planned community development
• Build on your lot

Headquarters

HQ city

Hagerstown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. New Home Sales: Revenue is generated from the sale of newly constructed homes, including move-in ready homes and custom builds. The company offers homes in planned communities as well as build-on-your-lot programs. Homes are sold with standard features and customizable options.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Manor House Builders is a residential home builder that designs, constructs, and sells new single-family homes in three planned communities (Amberfield in Falling Waters, WV; Evans Run and Paradise Heights in Washington County, MD) and via an off-site Build on Your Lot program across Washington, Frederick, and Berkeley counties. Homes are offered as build-to-order with customizable floor plans or as Move In Now pre-built inventory, all backed by a 10-year Quality Builders Warranty. A separate Manor House Improvements service handles post-sale renovation work for existing homeowners.

Product overview

Manor House Builders is a residential home builder operating since 1992, offering a portfolio of single-family home floor plan models (The Anderson, The Belvedere, The Burnside, The Fairmont, The Fairmont Multi-Gen, The Jackson, The Kensington, The Regency, The Remington, The Rutledge, The Westmoreland, The Weston, The Winchester) across three residential communities (Amberfield in Falling Waters WV, Evans Run, and Paradise Heights in Washington County MD). The company provides complementary services including Move In Now pre-built homes, a Build on Your Lot off-site construction program, preferred lender financing services, and a 10-year Quality Builder's Warranty. The product portfolio is structured as a traditional home builder offering not a unified platform but rather discrete floor plan models and communities that customers can select from, with supporting services for financing, warranty, and customization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Manor House Improvements: Home improvement services offered by the company

Products and services

• New Home Construction

Named customers3 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Quality Builders Warranty CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQBW is the nation's premier 10-year new home warranty program. Manor House Builders displays the QBW Logo indicating they have passed strict standards for quality and integrity. Homebuyers receive peace of mind selecting a builder approved by QBW.
• Hilton Charles Smith IIIminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLicensed real estate broker handling West Virginia sales operations for Manor House Builders at Amberfield community.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• NVR (Ryan Homes): Top-three US production builder operating Ryan Homes brand across the Mid-Atlantic; directly competes with Manor House on move-in-ready inventory and build-on-your-lot programs in the same Washington/Frederick/Berkeley county geographies.
• Lennar Corporation: National top-five homebuilder with active Maryland operations across both for-sale and build-on-lot segments; benchmark for pricing pressure and rate-buy-down incentives in the markets Manor House serves.
• Hovnanian Enterprises: Mid-Atlantic-active national production builder (K. Hovnanian brand) competing on entry-level price points with similar community-development model in PA/MD/VA exurbs.
• Richmond American Homes: National production builder (MDC Holdings) with Mid-Atlantic expansion; competes in MD/PA markets with a similar entry-level-to-first-move-up product mix and warranty structure.
• D.R. Horton: America's largest homebuilder by volume, actively building in the Hagerstown/Martinsburg corridor with production-builder cost advantages; competes head-to-head with Manor House on entry-level single-family homes in MD/WV.

Regional players

• Dan Ryan Builders: Regional Mid-Atlantic builder operating in West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia with similar planned-community model and buyer profile; competes directly in the Eastern Panhandle/WV market where Manor House runs Amberfield.
• Stanley Martin Homes: Mid-Atlantic-focused production builder with a strong Maryland/Virginia community portfolio; the closest regional analog in scale, model-library breadth, and buyer segmentation to Manor House's three-community footprint.
• Bob Ward Companies: Long-standing Western Maryland homebuilder headquartered in the same Washington County region as Manor House; the most locally-competing regional peer for land, subcontractor capacity, and buyer leads in Hagerstown.

Others

• Quality Builders Warranty Corporation: Warranty-program partner and ecosystem participant; not a competitor but a key service provider whose certification protocol Manor House advertises as a trust signal against other builders.
• First Home Mortgage: Preferred mortgage partner channel; not a competitor but an ecosystem participant whose lender exclusivity drives Manor House's buyer conversion economics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/manorhouseblder
• Facebookfacebook.com/manorhousebuilders
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/manor-house-builders

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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