Director of Land Acquisition

Ashton Woods Homes is one of the nation’s largest private homebuilding companies, with operations in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Antonio and Tampa. Recently named the #1 Most Trusted Homebuilder in America, Ashton Woods is known throughout the industry for building homes with award-winning designs that inspire, and offering homebuyers unrivaled personalization options. Ashton Woods is also the only builder to nationally utilize the Environments for Living Platinum Program, which certifies the energy efficient status of our homes.

Ashton Woods Homes has emerged as a homebuilder of choice, driven by a strong entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to world-class product design and customer satisfaction.

Position Overview: This position is responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and underwriting the purchases of new communities for Ashton Woods / Starlight Homes.

Responsibilities

• Source raw land engineered and developed lot market-targeted land opportunities.
• Draft Letters of Intent utilizing best business practices, securing land assets at or below market price.
• Negotiate contracts directly with landowners and developers.
• Negotiate joint development agreements with other builders and developers.
• Provide accurate timing for entitlement and proposed development.
• Collaborate with the entitlement and development team and engineers to ensure an efficient concept land plan and cost analyses.
• Work with market analysts to monitor competitive local home building prices and practices.
• Perform land use and financial analysis for new land acquisitions while accurately forecasting vertical and horizontal development cost, permits and impact fees.
• Manage due diligence materials for project feasibility land books using outside vendor base, local municipality contacts, engineers, and attorneys), and consider relevant information (e.g., geotechnical reports, environmental reports, endangered species reports, traffic reports, utilities systems, survey and title analysis).
• Understand and research jurisdictional development and building requirements.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Finance, Business, Urban Planning or equivalent years of experience in land acquisitions with a production builder required.
• At least 5 years of land acquisition, land entitlement and homebuilding experience preferred.
• 5+ years of land acquisition and/or entitlement experience preferred.
• Experience with Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point and ability to learn new programs as needed.
• A strong understanding of Microsoft Excel is required.