Justin Green Custom Homes

Name: Justin Green Custom Homes
Address: 8200 Chad Colley Boulevard, Fort Smith, AR, 72917, US
Telephone: +14796505114

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When building a custom home, we feel there are three main considerations; style preferences, lifestyle needs and budget.

🏡 Helping families turn their dreams into reality since 1998.
📍 Custom homes & remodels in Fort Smith, and across the River Valley.
👇 Get your investment range with the FREE estimator below. We believe that the finishes, features and comfort define a custom home more than the size. And we put craftsmanship and quality products into every home we build. Since 1998, Justin Green has been providing Fort Smith River Valley homeowners with quality craftsmanship and excellent customer satisfaction. Our relationship with our sub-contractors and suppliers allows for a smooth and enjoyable home building experience. Whether you’re a first time homebuyer, a growing family or empty nesters looking for that dream home, Justin Green Custom Homes can build a home to reflect your lifestyle and meet your needs.

10/30/2026

October Project Spotlight.

Some homes are made for slowing down. This one starts with a black island and a range with a pot filler, and opens into a vaulted living room with a fireplace set between arched built-ins. The primary suite has a checkerboard floor and a glass shower with two heads. Out back, timber trusses and a fireplace cover the patio, and past it sit a pool and a cabana at the edge of the lawn.

Then the details: a brass chandelier in the stairwell, brass sconces over a wood vanity, and a tiled bar.

When we asked where you relax, outdoor living came up again and again. This one has room for all of it.

What was your favorite detail of this one? Tell us in the comments.

10/29/2026

This is the moment the worry turns into a plan.

Step four puts every number on paper: allowances for every finish, line by line, a draw schedule for every stage, and the full price of the home in writing before any dirt moves. If something changes, you see it on paper first. If you ran the estimator, this is where that range becomes a real budget.

Step four of the Getting Started guide is linked in the comments.

10/26/2026

You do not need an architect before you talk to a builder.

Step three starts with whatever you have: a folder of screenshots, a sketch, a list of must-haves. Blake, our draftsman, draws it to fit your land and your budget, and we revise it together until it is yours. Because he is part of our team, those changes happen at our table, without sending your plan back and forth to someone outside the process.

Step three of the Getting Started guide is linked in the comments. Bring the screenshots.

10/24/2026

Available now in Shire Glen: Lot 23, 10302 Barnhard Way, $586,000.

This single-story home sits on a corner lot in Chaffee Crossing with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2,334 heated square feet and a 2-car garage. It was designed around the way a family moves through the day. Come in from the garage to built-in lockers, gather around the kitchen island with its walk-in pantry, and settle into the vaulted living room by the gas-log fireplace. The primary suite has a trayed ceiling and a freestanding tub, guests have a half bath of their own, and the covered back porch is ready for slow evenings outside.

It will be move-in ready in January 2027, and it comes with a $10K Flex Credit you can put toward a rate buy-down, a move-in package or your closing costs. Like every home we build, it is backed by our 3-year builder warranty.

Call (479) 242-0469 to book a walk-through. Know someone who is looking for a new home in Fort Smith? Share this with them.

The rendering is generative and for illustration only. The $10K Flex Credit is offered by Justin Green Custom Homes on Lot 23 and Lot 50 in Shire Glen. Use of the credit is subject to lender approval and loan program guidelines. Offer subject to change.

10/22/2026

You do not need a lot, a plan, or a budget to come see us.

The dreaming stage is when your land, your plans, and your budget are still easy to shape, before anything is set. Come early, with no obligation. You are welcome here.

The Getting Started guide is linked in the comments. Read it before you visit.

10/21/2026

Available now in Shire Glen: Lot 50, 10107 Tyrrell Court, $589,200.

This single-story home sits on a corner lot in Chaffee Crossing with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,272 heated square feet and a 2-car garage. A drop zone right by the garage door catches the shoes, bags and keys. The island kitchen with its walk-in pantry opens to the vaulted living room and its fireplace, so whoever is cooking stays part of the conversation. The primary suite has a freestanding tub, and the covered back porch is right there when you want some fresh air.

It will be move-in ready in January 2027, and it comes with a $10K Flex Credit you can put toward a rate buy-down, a move-in package or your closing costs. Like every home we build, it is backed by our 3-year builder warranty.

Call (479) 242-0469 to book a walk-through. Know someone who is looking for a new home in Fort Smith? Share this with them.

The rendering is generative and for illustration only. The $10K Flex Credit is offered by Justin Green Custom Homes on Lot 23 and Lot 50 in Shire Glen. Use of the credit is subject to lender approval and loan program guidelines. Offer subject to change.

10/20/2026

A few acres close to town still comes up. Past Greenwood, the county roads off Chaffee, the Lavaca side. This time we crossed the state line too. Here is what is available right now, pinned on one map.

1. Van Buren: 10 acres on Spradley Road at $195,000, with water at the street and quick access to I-540 and I-40. Listed by Jimmy Bell Real Estate.
2. Lavaca: 2.05 acres on South River Road at $95,000, a corner lot with city utilities. Listed by Keller Williams Platinum Realty.
3. Greenwood: 6.64 acres on West Main Street at $130,000, with the dirt work done and a pad site leveled. Listed by Mossy Oak Properties Field, Farm, and Homes.
4. Fort Smith: Fulgham Estates, 3.06 acres at $149,000, in the Greenwood School District with city water, natural gas and underground electric. Listed by McGraw REALTORS.
5. Fort Smith: Edens Edge, 5 gated acres at $150,000. Listed by Bradford & Udouj Realtors.
6. Pocola, Oklahoma: 4.97 acres on Hall Lane at $115,000, with mature hardwoods and no deed restrictions. Listed by O'Neal Real Estate-Poteau.
7. Fort Smith: 3 acres on Bonanza Road at $99,900, in the Greenwood School District with city water available. Listed by The Heritage Group Real Estate - Barling.

We have seen two lots at the same price come out seventy thousand dollars or more apart once you build on them. We walk every one of these with you before you make an offer: the pole at the road, where the water goes, the rise and the setback, the trees.

Which one of these listings stand out to you? Tell us below. The lot walk is step two of the Getting Started guide, Start With the Land, linked in the comments.

Listing facts from Zillow as of Oct 19, 2026. Each listing belongs to the brokerage named, and pricing and availability can change. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

10/19/2026

When we asked where you want to build, a few acres close to town came up again and again, and so did room between neighbors. It is still out there all across the River Valley.

This week we are putting listings on one map, with the acres and the price on each. Found one already? Send us the listing before you make an offer. We can help you determine site costs.

Step two of the Getting Started guide, Start With the Land, is linked in the comments.

10/16/2026

What makes a lot buildable? The price on the sign answers one question. The ground answers the rest.

Two lots can have the same asking price, and we have seen them come out thousands of dollars or more apart in site costs. Here is what we look at on every lot we walk, and what each one costs you when it is missing.

1. Access and frontage. How does a truck get in, and how far back will the house sit? Every foot between the road and your front door is driveway, water line and power line you pay for.

2. Utilities at the street. Look for four things at the road: water, sewer, power and gas.
Water: city water at the street is the simple case. No water line means a well.
Sewer: no sewer at the curb means a septic system. In Arkansas that usually starts with a soil test by a licensed Designated Representative and a permit from the Health Department. A lot of people call it a perc test. Here the Health Department prefers a soil pit, which shows how deep the rock is and how wet the ground gets. If the soil comes back poor, the system gets more involved and more expensive.
Power: find the pole. How far is it from where the house will sit? A long run is its own line item.
Gas: no gas line means propane or an all electric home.

3. Soil and drainage. Stand on the lot after a good rain if you can. Where does the water go? Watch the ditches, the low spots and the neighbors' yards. Rock close to the surface, soft ground or old fill can change the foundation and the dirt work.

4. Slope. A walkout basement is a gift on the right lot and a retaining wall on the wrong one. The steeper the ground, the more dirt work it takes to set a level pad, and the harder the driveway gets.

5. Flood zone. Look the lot up on FEMA's flood map before you fall in love with the view. If it sits in a high-risk flood zone and you have a federally backed mortgage, flood insurance is required, and the house will likely need to be built up.

6. Setbacks and easements. The city or county sets how close you can build to the front, sides and back of the lot. Easements for utilities or drainage can take a strip you cannot build on. Sketch the house inside those lines before you buy.

7. Covenants and HOA rules. Many neighborhoods set a minimum square footage, exterior materials, roof pitch, fences, or where a shop can go. Read them before you design, so the plan you love is a plan the neighborhood allows.

8. Survey and title. A current survey shows where the corners and lines really are. Title work shows the easements, access and anything else recorded against the land.

What it costs when something is missing: each missing piece turns into a line item that does not show up on the listing. A longer driveway. A power run. A well. A septic system. Dirt work for a level pad. A retaining wall. A house built up above the flood level. Several of those can run five figures on their own, and that is how two lots at the same price end up far apart.

Plenty of good homesites need some of this. The goal is knowing the number before you sign, so the land and the house fit the same budget.

If you are looking at a lot right now, send us the listing before you make an offer. We will meet you out there, walk it with you, and tell you what we see. The lot walk is free.

10/15/2026

Same price on the sign. A very different number once you build.

Three things usually make the difference: how far the pole at the road is from where the house sits, where the water goes when it rains, and how much dirt has to move to set a level pad. On one lot that is a short list. On the other, we have seen it add several thousands of dollars or more before a wall goes up.

That is why we walk the land with you before you make an offer. Step two of the Getting Started guide is linked in the comments. Send us the pin and we will walk yours.

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8200 Chad Colley Boulevard
Fort Smith, AR
72917

Telephone

+14796505114

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