Southern Home Builders Inc.

What Southern Home Builders Inc. does

Southern Home Builders Inc. (operating as SHB) is a private residential home builder headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, with additional offices in Bossier City and Haughton. The firm constructs and sells single-family homes within a portfolio of six or more master-planned communities across the Shreveport-Bossier City-Haughton metro, including The Preserve (Estates and Retreat neighborhoods, adjacent to Barksdale Air Force Base), Legacy (650 acres in North Bossier with Waterford Lake, Edgewater Pass, and Redwood Place), New Castle Pines in Shreveport, and Tuscany Crossing and Tuscany Villas in Haughton. Home prices range from approximately $200,000 to $2,500,000, with floor plans spanning 1 to 5+ bedrooms offered in move-in ready, preconstruction, and under-construction stages.

The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer: sales representatives stationed at or rotating across community sites conduct tours, lot and floorplan selection, and relocation orientation for incoming families, while the company website provides an advanced property search with filters for city, community, status, bedrooms, bathrooms, and price. Technology is light — a standard WordPress site with property search and community landing pages — with no disclosed proprietary platform, APIs, or AI tooling. The company self-positions as the No. 1 trusted builder in Shreveport-Bossier City for over 20 years and was named 2024 Small Business of the Year by the Shreveport-Bossier City region.

Revenue is generated through one-time home sales (no recurring or contracted streams disclosed), with no parent company, subsidiaries, funding rounds, M&A activity, or executive team disclosed in the source material. Customer cohorts are primarily relocating families and military families assigned to Barksdale AFB. Operating geographies are confined to northwest Louisiana with no global footprint. The source data shows a conflict on founding year (1994 in firmographics, 2004 in the company history block); both are consistent with the website's "over 20 years" claim and the company is presently active and operating.

Name

Southern Home Builders Inc.

Legal name

Southern Home Builders

Website

https://shb-inc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Southern Home Builders Inc. is a private regional home builder constructing and selling single-family residences across master-planned communities in Shreveport, Bossier City, and Haughton, Louisiana, serving relocating families and military families from Barksdale Air Force Base.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Home Building

NAICS

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

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Residential Bldgs (1520)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

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

Keywords

• Single-family home building
• Master-planned communities
• New construction homes
• Residential real estate development
• Move-in ready homes

Headquarters

HQ city

Shreveport

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Home Sales: One-time home sales through construction and sale of single-family residences in master planned communities. Buyers purchase completed move-in ready homes or homes under construction. Revenue generated per transaction with pricing ranging from approximately $200,000 to $2,500,000 based on community, floor plan, and features selected.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Southern Home Builders constructs and sells single-family homes within master-planned residential communities in the Shreveport/Bossier City, Louisiana area. Homes are sold directly to individual homebuyers in move-in ready, preconstruction, or under-construction status, with floor plans ranging from 1 to 5+ bedrooms and prices from approximately $200,000 to $2,500,000 across communities in Bossier City, Shreveport, and Haughton.

Product overview

Southern Home Builders Inc. is a home building company operating in the Shreveport/Bossier City area of Louisiana for over 20 years. The company offers a portfolio of master-planned communities and neighborhoods across three cities: Bossier City (The Preserve with Estates and Retreat neighborhoods, Legacy with Waterford Lake, Edgewater Pass, and Redwood Place), Shreveport (New Castle Pines), and Haughton (Tuscany Crossing and Tuscany Villas). Homes are available in various stages including move-in ready, preconstruction, and under construction, with floor plans ranging from 1 to 5+ bedrooms and prices from $200 to $2,500,000. The company also provides an advanced search feature allowing buyers to filter by city, community, status, floorplan, bedrooms, bathrooms, and price range.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Preserve
• Legacy
• New Castle Pines
• Tuscany Crossing
• Tuscany Villas

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Tri Pointe Homes: National homebuilder operating premium and move-up communities across multiple states; comparable to SHB on the estate-and-retreat product lines within The Preserve and on master-planned community development model.
• PulteGroup: National homebuilder covering entry-level through active-adult segments; comparable to SHB on full price-point ladder and for-sale community model, with national brand recognition competing for the same move-up buyers.
• KB Home: Public homebuilder with build-to-order communities across multiple U.S. markets; comparable to SHB on for-sale residential construction model serving first-time and move-up buyers in planned communities.
• D.R. Horton: Largest U.S. homebuilder by volume, operating for-sale communities across multiple states including Louisiana; competes with SHB on the same entry-level through move-up segments with substantially greater scale and capital efficiency.
• LGI Homes: Specialized entry-level production builder with high-volume community-based sales; comparable to SHB on lower-priced for-sale community product and standardized floor plans serving first-time buyers.
• Century Communities: Top-10 U.S. homebuilder with a strong concentration in entry-level and first-time move-up buyers; comparable to SHB's entry-level Tuscany and New Castle Pines offerings, with greater scale and broader geographic footprint.
• Lennar Corporation: National top-three homebuilder with a broad portfolio of for-sale master-planned communities; comparable to SHB on community-based build-to-sell model and target buyer segments, with greater geographic diversification.
• M/I Homes: Public homebuilder focused on move-up and luxury buyers in master-planned communities; comparable to SHB on a similar product mix and direct-to-buyer sales model, with broader geographic reach.

Direct peers

• Level Homes: Louisiana-based regional homebuilder developing master-planned communities and entry-level to move-up homes in the Baton Rouge and surrounding Louisiana markets; comparable as a peer-sized for-sale builder operating in the same state with the same builder-developer model.
• DSLD Homes: Regional production homebuilder headquartered in Louisiana with communities across Louisiana and surrounding Gulf states; directly comparable to SHB as a local for-sale builder operating in the same state with similar move-in ready, spec-built community model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/southern-home-builders-inc.

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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