Aurora's master-planned new-construction community on 2,500 residential acres: eight villages, seven active national builders, four new schools, and direct E-470 access to Denver International Airport. Represented by a team that pairs live MLS data with the builder relationships and quick move-in inventory that public portals don't show.
The Aurora Highlands Difference
With seven active builders running their own sales offices, design centers, and incentive programs at The Aurora Highlands, a meaningful share of new homes never reach the public MLS. By the time the typical buyer sees the listings on Zillow, they're seeing part of what's actually available, and the homes that hit the portal first are rarely the best values.
Public real estate portals pull from the MLS on a lag. By the time a new Aurora Highlands listing appears on Zillow® or Realtor.com®, it has typically already been shown, and sometimes already taken.
A meaningful share of new homes at The Aurora Highlands are sold directly by Tri Pointe, David Weekley, Richmond American, Century, and the other active builders before they ever appear on the MLS. Quick move-in homes, design center selections, and premium-lot releases move through builder sales offices first, not Zillow.
We maintain the full builder inventory list across every active Aurora Highlands builder, including quick move-in homes that don't appear on public portals, and we pair it with direct MLS access for any resale. You see every home that's actually available, not just the ones that made it online.
Live MLS · Updated Continuously
Search current homes for sale at The Aurora Highlands with the same live MLS data your agent uses. No portal delay, no expired listings, no surprises. Ask us for the full builder inventory list, including quick move-in homes the MLS doesn't show.
The Neighborhood
The Aurora Highlands is a planned community organized into eight villages, with new parks, a planned civic center, a future medical campus, and four new schools. Hogan Park at Highlands Creek anchors the early phases. Streetscapes pair Front Range views with the kind of arts and amenity programming you don't usually find in a new-build community at this scale.
Eight villages are planned across the 2,500 residential acres, each with its own builder mix and homesite character. Early phases anchor around Highlands Creek, the carousel at Winged Melody Park, and the clocktower at the community entrance. Later phases extend toward the planned civic and medical campuses.
Read field notes ›The three communities most often compared to The Aurora Highlands. Painted Prairie is the established neo-traditional neighbor directly north; Green Valley Ranch is the deep-resale market across E-470 to the west; Windler is the next new-construction master plan, just northeast. Different lot sizes, finish levels, and price-per-square-foot tradeoffs.
Compare builders & communities ›Roughly five miles from Denver International Airport via E-470, twelve miles to Anschutz Medical Campus, and twenty miles to downtown Denver. Buyers here often work in aerospace, healthcare, or hospitality at DIA and the Gaylord, or commute to the Tech Center via the southeast E-470 corridor.
Why location matters ›The Concierge Process
A deliberate six-stage engagement, designed around how new-construction buyers should actually shop a multi-builder community like The Aurora Highlands. Patient, informed, and protective of your negotiating position from the first builder sales office visit forward.
A private conversation about your criteria, timeline, and lifestyle priorities. Single-family or paired, ranch or two-story, larger homesite or smaller. No pressure, no pitch. Just listening.
The full Aurora Highlands inventory list across every active builder, including quick move-in homes and unannounced phase releases that don't appear on Zillow or Redfin, paired with a real-time MLS feed tuned to your exact preferences for any resale.
Showings scheduled around your calendar, coordinated discreetly with each builder's representative. We register you on arrival at each sales office to preserve your right to representation throughout the transaction.
New construction is different. With two decades of experience working with national builders, we know what to ask for to get our buyers concessions: rate buydowns, closing-cost credits, design center allowances, premium-lot reductions, and incentive stacking across phases.
For build-to-order homes, we attend the design center appointment, the major construction milestones, and the final walkthrough. For quick move-in homes and resales, we manage inspection findings, builder warranty items, lender liaison, and title review.
Vendor introductions, school admissions contacts (Aurora Public Schools 28J, including Vista Peak Exploratory P-8 and Vista Peak Preparatory), neighborhood orientation, and ongoing market intel after move-in. The relationship doesn't end at closing.
Selling In The Aurora Highlands
The industry norm is a six-percent commission and a generic marketing playbook recycled from one listing to the next. We've built our practice the other way around: top-notch marketing, precision pricing, expert negotiation, and a fee structure that returns real equity to the seller.
Sell Your Aurora Highlands Home For MoreProfessional photography, 3D tour, video, property website, and a digital campaign built around the buyers most likely to act. See the full marketing program ›
A data-driven approach that brings interest in the first thirty days and keeps you from leaving money on the table. Most of our listings sell between 100% and 101% of the original asking price. How precision pricing works ›
Two decades of negotiating Colorado real estate contracts on the seller's side. We hold the line on price, manage inspection objections, and close cleanly. How we negotiate for sellers ›
Field Notes
Quarterly market reports, builder notes, and the kind of insider perspective you only get from a team that knows every floor plan, sales office, and homesite at The Aurora Highlands.
Visit Field Notes →A 2,500-acre master plan, seven active builders, eight planned villages. What's actually here in 2026, what's coming, and how it compares to Painted Prairie and Green Valley Ranch next door.
$15,000 in closing costs. Rate buydown to 5.5%. Free finished basement. What builder incentive packages at The Aurora Highlands actually mean, and how to compare two of them apples-to-apples.
Five miles to DIA. Twelve to Anschutz. Twenty to downtown. A practical walk-through of E-470 access, Tower Road traffic patterns, and what your commute will actually feel like by destination.
What Our Clients Say
David helped us buy a 4-bedroom home for only $1,650 down. We used a down payment grant program and David helped us get a $5,000 seller concession to help pay the remainder of our closing costs. This allowed us to buy a home with almost no money down.
David and Tom did a fantastic job selling our home. They were very professional and responded quickly to every question. We were out-of-state selling our home, which adds complexity, but with the system that David and Tom have, the sale was quick and easy. We had an accepted offer within a few days and closed within a month.
David respected our price limits and only showed us homes within our budget. We are able to afford our home perfectly. We loved David's attention to detail and the way he was always very honest instead of trying to act like a potential problem didn't exist.
Your Aurora Highlands Advisors
The Principal Team is David Lampe and Tom Grant, a small, experienced practice with two decades of experience selling new homes and working with builders. Many buyers incorrectly believe they'll get a better deal by walking into a builder's sales office unrepresented. The opposite is true: the builder's representative is friendly and seems to be on your side, but they actually represent the builder and are working to get the best deal for the builder. We work for you, and we know exactly what to ask for to get our buyers concessions.
Real Estate Broker · Co-Founder
Almost two decades of Colorado real estate experience, with deep expertise in new-construction negotiation, builder contract structure, and the kinds of details that separate a good outcome from a great one. David works with both buyers and sellers, and leads the team's listing strategy.
Real Estate Agent · Co-Founder
Tom works with both buyers and sellers, and built the team's curated MLS-direct system that powers the concierge home search. He personally walks every new-construction client through builder showings, design center selections, due diligence, and closing.
Frequently Asked
The fastest way is through a real-time MLS-direct search rather than public portals like Zillow, which can lag actual MLS listings by hours or days. Even more importantly, a large share of The Aurora Highlands homes are sold directly by the builder and never appear on the MLS. The Principal Team maintains the full builder inventory list across the seven active builders at The Aurora Highlands, including quick move-in homes that don't appear on Zillow or Redfin, paired with continuously refreshed MLS data for any resale listings in the community.
The Aurora Highlands is a master-planned community of 2,500 residential acres in northeast Aurora, Colorado, organized into eight villages. The community will be served by four new schools. Active builders offer detached single-family homes (ranch and two-story) plus paired homes, with floor plans currently ranging from roughly 1,500 to over 4,600 square feet. Starting prices currently begin in the high $400s for the smallest single-family plans and rise to the upper $600s for larger collections, with luxury collections still to come. Construction is HOA-governed.
Starting base prices at The Aurora Highlands currently begin around the high $400s (Tri Pointe Homes' Prelude collection) and run into the upper $600s and above for larger collections like David Weekley's Vistas and Richmond American's Portfolio. The typical buyer budget at the community is $500,000 to $750,000, with options below and above. Active inventory is a mix of build-to-order, quick move-in homes from each builder's sales office, and a small but growing pool of resale listings. We can send a current snapshot on request.
The Aurora Highlands is in northeast Aurora, Colorado, adjacent to and south of E-470 and the developing Aerotropolis district. The community sits roughly five to six miles from Denver International Airport, twelve miles from Anschutz Medical Campus, and twenty miles from downtown Denver. Access is via E-470, I-70, and the A-Line commuter rail nearby. Painted Prairie is the closest comparable community to the north; Green Valley Ranch is across E-470 to the west; Windler is to the northeast.
Seven national homebuilders are actively selling at The Aurora Highlands: Tri Pointe Homes (Prelude, Crescendo, and Ensemble single-family collections), David Weekley Homes (the Vistas, Pinnacle, and Signature collections on 35-, 60-, and 70-foot homesites), Richmond American Homes (Portfolio, Seasons, and Urban paired-home collections), Century Communities (ranch and two-story single-family), Taylor Morrison Homes (Landmark paired-ranch plus Town and Horizon single-family collections), Risewell Homes (the Aurora Highlands Collection), and Bridgewater Homes. Lennar Homes is coming soon, and Pulte Homes has sold out of its first phase. The builder lineup shifts as phases sell out; we track current pricing, lot availability, and incentives directly with each sales office. See our builders page for the current list.
The Principal Team brings two decades of experience selling new homes and working directly with builders. We know what to ask for to get our buyers concessions: rate buydowns, closing-cost credits, design center allowances, premium-lot reductions. We combine that with concierge service, direct MLS access, the full off-MLS builder inventory list across all seven active Aurora Highlands builders, and a listing commission structure that's more competitive than most brokerages. The result is more service for buyers and more equity preserved for sellers.
Begin Your Search
Tell us what you're looking for and we'll build a real-time, MLS-direct shortlist tuned to your criteria, including off-market builder inventory when available. No pressure. No pitch. Just the right homes, faster than anywhere else.
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