New Construction Across the Wasatch Front: Early-December 2026 Update

The early-December new construction calendar is the year-end window in its final act: the grand openings that mattered are open, builders are pricing to close before the holidays, and the announcements landing in the first half of December are the ones that set up 2027. Alpine Homes opened its Hidden Oaks model in Herriman on November 11, EDGEhomes formally attached its name to Auburn Springs in Lehi, David Weekley's Beacon Pointe in Saratoga Springs sold through its final Phase 1 home, and The Point's Convergence Hall is set to break ground this month.

This early-December 2026 update covers the new neighborhoods, model home openings, and construction milestones you can track through mid-December and into the first January releases, builder announcements across Daybreak, South Jordan, Herriman, Lehi, Saratoga Springs, West Jordan, and the outer collar of Riverton, Bluffdale, and Eagle Mountain, and the builder comparison picture in the final negotiating weeks of the year. If you are weighing a new build before the holiday pause, this is the freshest picture we have published. Our late-November report covered the Thanksgiving-week read; this one is about the year-end finish line and the first 2027 signals.

Daybreak (South Jordan): The Island Closes Out, The Dawn Enters Its Sellout Chapter, and Cascade Village Carries the Fresh Inventory

The most visible construction milestone in Daybreak this month is also the quietest one: Destination Homes' The Island at Daybreak is closing out its last home site, with that final occupancy tracking for late November into early December. Once the last key turns, the idyllic community ringed by water at the heart of Downtown Daybreak moves from new construction into resale, which quietly raises the value of the fresh inventory still selling across the master plan and makes the remaining new-construction moments easier to name.

The other quiet headline is at The Dawn at Daybreak, David Weekley's two-to-four-story low-maintenance townhome community near South Station. Its five floor plans have run from about $465,000 to $565,000 through the fall, and heading into December the builder reports only a few townhomes remaining. That makes The Dawn one of the first Daybreak communities to reach its natural end, and the honest takeaway for buyers is that the low-maintenance door at the downtown edge is closing soon, not that pricing is about to soften.

The rest of the model field stays as deep as any in the county. The seven partner builders on the official roster, David Weekley, Destination, Holmes, Ivory, Oakwood, Rainey, and Sego, keep roughly 28 model homes furnished and open across the Watermark South and North hubs and the Cascade Village field. Cascade Village, the western-edge village, is the freshest inventory story with Ivory's models running from about $500,000 to $574,933 across the Lassen, Tahoma, Colfax, Auburn, and Hamilton plans, and Watermark Village's 18-model field still spans the upper $400s into the $1.4 million to $2 million band at the top of the Watermark Estates and Augusta lines. The activity layer matters as much as the model floor this time of year: the Daybreak Winter Village skating rink opened November 20 at the square, making the December touring Saturdays among the busiest of the season, and the developer's QMI dues-paid offer, covering qualifying community dues for contracts closed between October 16 and December 31, 2026, is still live. Bring us with you to a Winter Village Saturday and we will run the full-cost math while the models are at their most bookable. Our full Daybreak community guide gives the village-by-village layout if you are new to the master plan.

Utah City (Vineyard): The First Christmas Village Lands, and the Bend Collection Closes Out the Year

The biggest announcement in Utah City this week has nothing to do with a floor plan and everything to do with proof of life. On November 11 the community announced its first Christmas Village, with a county-only outdoor ice rink, and set the tree lighting and ice-rink grand opening for December 4 on The Greenline. It is the kind of milestone that tells you the urban core has crossed from construction site to place, and it gives December model-touring visitors a concrete reason to stay for the evening. Around it, Bella's Market celebrates its first anniversary on November 14, Fini Pizza holds the main-street dining conversation, and Berliner Park plus the first segments of the 12-acre Greenline stay open through the winter.

On the construction side, the residential collection is now essentially whole. The 120 Bend and 220 Bend apartment buildings, together more than 450 units, have completed their opening wave, which means the urban core now carries a real walking population through its first full Vineyard winter, and the FrontRunner station has connected the site since 2022. The vertical medical campus is the milestone buyers should track: Huntsman Cancer Institute, the roughly $400 million, 272,000-square-foot Comprehensive Cancer Center on the site, reached vertical construction over the late summer and is now rising in the master plan's medical cluster, with outpatient hospital delivery still tracking toward fall 2028. The commercial date on the calendar remains Broad Street: Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group, the Hudson Yards team selected on September 30 for the downtown entertainment and retail district, are still aiming for a spring 2027 construction start, with Odyssey Retail Advisors curating the retail mix. For for-sale buyers, Utah City stays a transit-forward, urban-priced master plan, and the honest question is still how fast foot traffic in the first phases validates the density. The Christmas Village is the first big public answer to that question.

The Point (Draper): Convergence Hall Breaks Ground, and the River District Selection Lands by Year-End

The Point is the single most-watched future-residential site in the valley, and December is the month its calendar finally moves twice. First, the commercial stack keeps climbing: Convergence Hall, the roughly 60,000-square-foot office building with parking and additional residential units, is expected to break ground in December, joining the Mountain America Event Center, the roughly 5,000-seat venue that is the first building to go vertical with delivery expected around 2028, and Chroma, the 363-unit mixed-use building along I-15 with about 42,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, which goes vertical in the same window with a build out to roughly 2028. The Promenade, the roughly 2,000-foot walkable retail and dining street designed as the district's social heart, is already under construction.

The milestone buyers should plan around is the River District, the roughly 800 to 900 owner-occupied homes on about 50 acres between the boulevard and a future FrontRunner station. The Land Authority's developer selection is expected before the end of the year, with contract negotiations scheduled from December 2026 through March 2027, horizontal construction estimated for July 2027, and vertical construction around March 2028. No builder has been publicly named yet, and the realistic first for-sale delivery stays in 2028, but the year-end selection is the moment The Point turns from a rental-and-venue story into a for-sale story buyers can plan around. Beneath it all, Porter Rockwell Boulevard, the development's first road, is finishing out this year, and the roughly $2.3 billion in private backing behind the state's $165 million infrastructure investment keeps the buildout funded at volume. Our What The Point Means for the Wasatch Front article covers the full phasing debate.

Herriman: Alpine's Hidden Oaks Model Opens, and Panorama's First-Look Events Begin

The freshest model home opening in Salt Lake County this month is in Herriman. Alpine Homes opened its Hidden Oaks model on November 11, with the furnished model arriving November 14, and the quick move-in list already carries finished homes with attached units: the Juniper near $853,000 and the Evergreen near $816,000 both come with finished ADUs. Hidden Oaks sits in west Herriman alongside Ivory's Hidden Oaks Collection from about $639,500 and Perry Homes' line from about $618,400, which makes the southwest corner of the city one of the few spots in the county where three builders are selling on the same street at three different price points.

The pricing picture at Olympia, the roughly 933-acre master plan west of town, stays the friendliest it has been all year as the holiday refresh lands. Richmond American's Great Basin, the flagship collection with nine floor plans in single-family and paired-home product, lists from about $424,990 with homes running up to roughly 2,900 square feet, and gaps in the group's walk-in inventory have opened into the year-end window. Higher on the ladder, Creek Ridge Cove spans about $624,990 to $847,716, Teton Ranch runs from about $754,990 to $1,008,990 with ranch and two-story plans including RV-garage options, and Capitol Reef from EDGEhomes keeps the county's lowest entry condo line at roughly $344,900 to $368,900 beside single-family from about $552,900. With roughly 6,480 homes approved for the master plan and around 600 built or under construction so far, Olympia is a supply zone that will keep Herriman on every buyer's short list for years. Our explainer Olympia: What to Know About the 930-Acre Development covers both sides of the story, and if your tour route runs through the southwest valley, the real-life Up house at Herriman Rose Boulevard makes the perfect holiday-season detour.

Lehi: Auburn Springs Gets Its Builder, and the Value Band Refines at Both Ends

The newest name on your Lehi map just got a last name. EDGEhomes has formally attached its name to Auburn Springs, the coming-soon community we flagged in November, moving it from signal to active sales as an upscale single-family community of roughly 82 homes from the $820s to about $1.2 million, with 3,434 to 5,871 square feet, three to five bedrooms, and a low monthly HOA. It is the clearest fresh-build announcement in Utah County heading into winter, and the kind of early-release moment where the best lots and opening pricing live. Wrap it with the established volume players and Lehi still covers the widest one-county spread of any city on our list.

At the entry end, D.R. Horton's Cold Spring Ranch has refined its band as the year closes, with the Addison and Dalton townhome plans starting around $412,990 and the single-family line running up to roughly $824,990. Inverness's roughly 1,200-acre Plat D keeps entry single-family from the low $400s, the Overton townhome near $504,990, and the Torren plan from about $1.25 million at the top. The mid-market and premium ends keep pace: Pioneer Meadows runs near the $644,000 marker, River Point holds a steady middle band with quick move-ins available, and Ivory's Holbrook cluster keeps its sub-communities selling with Holbrook Farms quick move-ins from about $716,400, Holbrook Place Collection from about $620,000, and the Jordan Walk Towns from about $416,500. At the luxury end, Toll Brothers' Lakeview Estates, the 52-home community at the highest point of Traverse Mountain, has confirmed its final-opportunity phase with roughly four homes remaining from about $1.15 million, so the premium headline in Lehi is a playing-out endgame rather than a new phase. For buyers weighing the two Utah County powerhouses, our Lehi versus Saratoga Springs comparison walks through how they divide by commute, price, and lifestyle.

Saratoga Springs: Beacon Pointe's Next Phase, Oakwood's Arrival Townhomes, and the City's Widest Choice

Saratoga Springs keeps the deepest and fastest-turnover new construction docket in Utah County, and a November 11 survey of active builders confirmed it: the city had the most new-home choices of any Utah County market in the survey window. Two fresh chapters define the early-December read. First, David Weekley's Beacon Pointe sold through its final Phase 1 home, the Winchell plan at $624,990, and has now flagged a new phase coming soon with rear-load Garage floor plans, the Lanedale and Casale, on 45- to 55-foot homesites with lakeview lots from $551,990, with Cadence Homes also building in the master plan from about $479,900. Second, Oakwood's Arrival Collection townhomes, from the $300,000s, are launching in the Wander area, which extends the city's entry band even as the premium end stays busy.

The mid-market and premium stories at Wildflower, the roughly 1,200-acre "Active Family Community" at 2100 North and Redwood Road, keep their builder trio in motion through the holidays. Toll Brothers at Wildflower holds the top band from about $815,000 with ADU options and current plans including the Ashton from about $814,995 and the Streamer from about $1,144,995, with roughly nine quick move-ins listed. Lennar's Valley at Wildflower serves the entry end from the $400s with Everything's Included pricing and Sunflower Fields townhomes, and EDGEhomes' Wildflower 2.0 runs from the $570s with its Villages collection still flagged coming soon. The city has approved multiple later plat phases, including the Wildflower Village 9 site plan, so the master plan's forward supply is locked well past this year's selling.

At Wander, Oakwood Homes' master plan on Utah Lake's north shore, the sales floor is as deep as any in the county heading into the holiday pause: five home collections, the 18-model Wanderland complex, 27 floor plans from about 880 to 2,771 square feet, entry pricing from about $299,990, and 27 quick move-ins listed, with Richmond American's Springs Village at Wander, roughly 60 gated homes, selling from about $740,000 to $810,000. Canton Ridge keeps widening: Richmond American sells the Helena from about $638,990 and the Daniel II from about $644,990, while Lennar's Teton plan is under construction near $759,900. And Toll Brothers' Westlake Vistas stays the premium door in the city's fastest-growing section, with quick move-in homes listed on plans of roughly 4,000 to 5,250 square feet with six and seven bedrooms. Our deep dives cover Wander on Utah Lake and the Wildflower buildout guide in detail.

Terraine (West Jordan): Weekley's Winter Repricing, Polaris Move-In-Ready, and Sego's Townhome Line

Terraine, roughly 630 acres of far-west West Jordan in the West Bench with about 2,800 homes planned at full build-out and roughly a third of the land preserved as foothill open space, stays the widest active builder spread at one address in the county, and the winter repricing has sharpened every catalog. David Weekley now lists the Reverie Collection from about $648,990 and the Aura Collection from about $549,990, both marked now selling with the Egret model open for tours. Rainey Homes holds the top with the Northlight Collection on 70-by-100-foot lots starting in the $900,000s and the Orion Collection from the $800,000s. Ivory keeps the Norwood Cottages and Estates models open plus the Terraine Towns townhomes, and tops out around the high $900,000s. Sego Homes fills the entry end with its townhome line from the $400,000s across four floor plans, and Tri Pointe's Polaris is now selling move-in-ready homes from about $695,900 with its model homes on site.

The roughly 170 homes delivered so far keep the Shed welcome center and cafe at 7188 West Hidden Hills Way busy every model-touring day, which means this community is still judged against a graded, planted, walkable loop rather than a dirt farm. The December read copies across the other builders: every floor-plan catalog changed in the last month, walk the field with a plan, and treat December's pricing as a floor, not a finish line, because the year-end lotteries for 2027 deliveries run before Christmas.

Riverton, Bluffdale, and Eagle Mountain: Quiet Chapters, Moving Pieces

The outer collar keeps composing quietly across the edges of the metro. In Riverton, the fresh-name moment is EDGEhomes' Mountain Ridge from about $399,900, a coming-soon entry at the value end of the corridor, alongside Alpine Homes' Riverton Cove, still open with a furnished model and roughly 11 home sites from about $715,000, and Ivory's Harvest Gardens 55+ with the Villas from around $564,000. The newest still quietly raising the value of that active-adult inventory is David Weekley's Homestead, sold out, which leaves Harvest Gardens and its nearby cousins as the only true new 55+ product left in the corridor.

In Bluffdale, the builder-inventory page is thin but the infrastructure page is loud. The city's signature 14600 South railroad crossing project, the roughly $77 million replacement of the old one-way underpass with a wider two-way four-lane tunnel, keeps completion projected in early 2027, and the 217-unit multifamily development at 15580 Plentiful Way inside Independence at The Point, which secured its equity in October, will bring hundreds of residents to the gateway between Bluffdale and the master plan. In Eagle Mountain, the value frontier of the western valley is about to get its deepest winter sell in years: Candlelight Homes' Firefly is advertising five tour-ready model homes with build-your-own or move-in-ready options, EDGEhomes' Rose Ranch is selling move-in-ready homes from about $535,900, Oakwood's Brio Collection at Oquirrh Mountain Ranch holds from the low $500s, and Juniper at Harmony from Meritage sits near $439,990, with Scarlet Ridge from Alpine and Firefly's later phases adding 2027 ground.

Highland, Cedar Hills, and the Murray Corridor: The Quiet Ends of the Market

The quiet ends of the market are not actually quiet. In Highland, Ivory's Ridgeview leads the newer-community list with Ridgeview Scandia Cottages from about $709,900 and Ridgeview Estates from about $1,177,500. In Cedar Hills, a new community keeps a 2027 groundbreaking on its construction calendar, and David Weekley's Cedar Canyon, just across the line in Pleasant Grove, keeps models open daily with the Spectra plan from about $596,990. In the Murray, Midvale, and Sandy corridor, Garbett Homes is the most active builder: The Gallery at Bullion in Murray keeps its 69-home community of townhomes and single-family homes selling from the $500s, The Mill in Midvale keeps Zero Energy Ready homes near $669,900 to $724,900, and Garbett's Urbana in Draper, from the $680s, is a reminder that new construction is not only a west-valley story.

Early-December Builder Incentives: The Final 2026 Menu Before the Holiday Pause

The incentive stack is still what separates a headline price from a real deal, and in early December it is running at the most aggressive volume we have tracked in this cycle because builders want closings banked before the December slowdown. Utah County builders are commonly putting $15,000 to $60,000 on the table, and the same menu extends into Salt Lake County's active communities. As of this week:

The stacking math still matters. The Utah first-time homebuyer assistance, roughly $20,000 in an interest-free, payment-free soft second loan for qualifying households on newly built homes under $450,000, multiplies the value of the entry ends of Great Basin at Olympia, Capitol Reef's condo line, Cold Spring Ranch's townhomes, the Arrival Collection at Wander, and parts of the Terraine, Riverton, and Eagle Mountain lines. And the October 1 ADU changes under Senate Bill 284 remain in force, so ask each builder which floor plans carry ADU-ready options and what the city approval path looks like. Treat every buydown as math, not magic: the honest comparison is effective true price, which is the incentive minus any neighborhood premium minus total cost of ownership across an eight-year horizon. That is the worksheet we run with every client before a single model visit.

Builder Comparison: Who's Building Where as 2026 Closes

The year-end window is when builders show their real hand, and the final weeks before the December slowdown are the clearest it gets. Here is the active map as of mid-November:

The golden rule holds into the holidays: builders would rather clear inventory before New Year than carry it into January, and that reality is squarely on the buyer's side through the end of December. Plats, prices, and incentives change fast, so use this as a map to prioritize, not a menu to bake. For the full evergreen comparison of how these builders do business, our comprehensive New Construction guide and builder comparison runs a longer table with the philosophy behind each team.

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