Prieb Homes

Prieb Homes has been building in Johnson County since 1979 and is still family-owned in its third generation, with Greg Prieb leading it. More than 5,000 homes is a serious number for a local builder, and it shows in how efficiently they run. They work from a named plan library, with plans like the Levi, Sydney, Harlow, and Payton, in two-story, reverse 1.5-story, and ranch villa formats. At any given time they carry more than 50 inventory homes across five communities, which makes them one of the easiest builders to actually buy from if you need to move within a few months.

They are a production builder, and I say that as a compliment. You pick a plan you have walked, in a community where they have built dozens of them, and the surprises are few. Their communities are concentrated in Olathe, Lenexa, and Shawnee: Arbor Lake in Lenexa from the mid $500s to the $700s, Canyon Lakes in Shawnee from the upper $500s to $1 million, and in Olathe, Prairie Farms from the mid $600s, where they are the primary builder, the maintenance-provided Ranch Villas at Prairie Farms in the upper $400s, Stonebridge Pointe from the low $400s to the $500s and up, and Woodland Hills in the upper $500s to $600s.

Prieb fits the buyer who wants a new home in Olathe or Shawnee schools in the $400s to $700s and would rather choose from what exists than wait a year. Current inventory is listed from $625K to $784K, and their Parade of Homes entries have run from the low $400s to the low $700s. They do not publish details on their warranty, design center, or an own-lot program, so those are the questions I ask at the sales office before we get attached to a plan.