custom home

Personalized residential build

A custom home is a house built to the owner's specifications rather than from a standard plan.

The buyer typically owns the land and works with an architect or builder to design every element: They're building a custom home on five acres outside town.

Custom homes contrast with spec homes, which developers build before finding a buyer, and tract homes in planned developments.

The term often signals luxury, though it simply means personalized construction.

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Categories
Opposites
design and construction approach

custom hometract home

Standardized development dwelling

tract housing · cookie-cutter house · spec home · prefab home · model home

housing market segment

custom homestarter home

Initial real estate purchase

affordable housing · low-cost housing · low-income housing · public housing · social housing

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G