Custom Homes and Whole-Home Remodeling in Bee Cave, Texas

It depends on the parcel. Inside the Bee Cave city limits, the City's Planning and Development Department reviews and permits new construction, additions, and major remodels. Just outside the city, in the extraterritorial jurisdiction, Travis County Development Services handles most permitting, and the City still applies its water quality, platting, and sign rules. Where an HOA or architectural committee governs the property, its review runs separately, so we confirm every required approval before design starts.

It depends on the subdivision. The City does not supply water, and service runs through West Travis County Public Utility Agency or Travis County Water Control and Improvement District No. 17. We confirm your parcel's utility provider, and whether a private well is allowed there, before we plan anything around it.

Some do; others have public wastewater through the utility serving their subdivision. Inside the city limits, the City of Bee Cave permits septic systems under the state septic rules, and installation or repair requires a permit whether the lot sits inside city limits or on an unincorporated Travis County parcel nearby, where the county is generally the permitting authority. We confirm which office governs your lot and build the septic timeline into the schedule from day one.

Plan for shallow rock. Much of the area sits on limestone, including the Glen Rose and Edwards formations, so excavation and foundation engineering get priced lot by lot. We also check your lot against the FEMA flood map and local drainage before pricing the site work.

Bee Cave became an International DarkSky Community in 2023. Inside the city limits, exterior fixtures cannot exceed 3,000K, fixtures generally require shielding, with specific exceptions, and residential lighting is capped at 25,000 lumens per net acre. Those standards do not carry automatically into the extraterritorial jurisdiction. We design your exterior lighting plan to the applicable standard from the first drawing.

Yes. In Bee Cave communities such as Falconhead West, which publishes architectural guidelines, exterior changes and additions need design approval before construction starts. We prepare and carry that submittal ourselves, and we design to the community's guidelines from the first drawing.

Construction typically runs $325 to $800+ per square foot at comparable finish levels, with structural steel and architectural complexity at the top of the range. In Bee Cave, the utility provider, the septic path, and rock excavation are priced separately, and each varies by parcel, which is why we confirm all three before we price your build. For the full Texas breakdown, see our guide to what it costs to build a house in Texas.

Yes. We walk the homesite with you before you close and tell you which office permits it, which utility serves it, what its architectural committee expects, and what the site work is likely to cost, so those numbers can go into your offer. We build homes; we do not sell homesites.

Yes, where your community allows outside builders. We check builder eligibility for your lot first, then walk it with you and give you working numbers for the site work before design starts. Our page on building on your lot covers the key approvals in Hays, Travis, and Burnet counties.