Most agents can sell you a house. The teardown-and-build play is a different business: land residual math, zoning envelopes, builder economics, and a finished-product market that rewards the right program and punishes the wrong one. Through Burks Holdings — the development arm of the Burks team at Corcoran Premier Realty — Matthew Burks runs that analysis every week for builders, landowners, and buyers building in Winter Park, Windermere, Winter Garden, and Central Florida's luxury corridors.
The asking floor for a standard buildable core-32789 lot as of August 2026 — land-flagged MLS listings support it. Streets, lakes, and lot size move it fast.
The MLS-verified clearing band for completed new-construction luxury sales in Winter Park — with trophy product printing $875–$1,150+.
Share of active $1M+ core-market listings that are new construction (August 2026 MLS pull) — the spec machine IS the luxury market now.
Figures from live Stellar MLS pulls and our sealed market audits, August 2026. Every number traceable; nothing modeled from headlines.
What the dirt is worth is a function of what the finished home sells for, minus the real cost to build it. We run the residual with current hard-cost ranges and sold comps — the same discipline we apply on our own development work.
Winter Park R-1AA caps floor-area ratio at 40% on standard lots, height at two stories, and regulates trees and impervious surface. We read the envelope before anyone writes an offer.
We represent new-construction communities and advise custom builders — which means we know who builds at which quality tier, what their real costs run, and what the exit looks like before ground breaks.
An agent who works the builder's side of the table. Matthew Burks advises builders and landowners through Burks Holdings, represents The Enclave (Winter Park) and Briley Farm (Oakland), and runs lot-value and residual analysis on every site first.
Core-32789 buildable lots are asked at roughly $1.4–1.5M as of August 2026. Lakefront and the Vias price on a different curve. The honest answer is always site-specific.
Permits across Florida are down ~31% from the 2021 peak and builders have throttled spec starts — which means whoever delivers a finished home in 2027 faces the thinnest new-construction competition in years. The window favors those who start now.
Start with the residual analysis — a real number, before any commitment. No-pressure conversation.
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