We have never opened a second office, never franchised the name, and never built a home we would not put our own family in.
Harbor Point began in 1999 with a single truck, a framing crew and a commitment that has since cost us more jobs than it has won: we would only take on the number of homes we could personally stand behind.
That number turned out to be six. Not six a month — six at a time. It is a constraint that has kept the company small, kept the founders on the job site, and kept the quality where it needs to be for a client who is entrusting us with the largest single undertaking of their life.
In the years since, we have built along the Loxahatchee and the Intracoastal, inside Admirals Cove and Frenchman’s Creek, on the dunes of Jupiter Island and the fairways of Old Marsh. Nine of every ten new clients come to us because someone they trust sent them.
They are not marketing positions. They are the reasons we sometimes decline work, and the reasons our clients keep sending us theirs.
We do not have a house style and we will not steer you toward one. Our role is to make your architect’s intent buildable and your family’s brief real — not to fold your home into a portfolio that already exists.
An allowance that everybody knows is low is not a budget, it is a deferred argument. We price to the real market at the design stage, even when a lower number would win us the job.
Growth is easy in this market and it is the single most reliable way to ruin a builder. When our six slots are full, we say so and offer you a place in the schedule rather than a diluted version of our attention.
We answer the phone in year eight the way we answered it in month two. A meaningful share of our work each year is a second or third home for a family we have already built for.
Our Jupiter studio exists for one reason: so that you never choose a material from a two-inch chip under fluorescent light.
Full slabs, full-size flooring runs, real hardware in the finish you are considering, and a designer who sits with you for as long as it takes. Most clients tell us this is the part of the process they were dreading and the part they ended up enjoying most.
You will also meet the people who will actually be on your site — your project manager, your superintendent, your lead carpenter. Not a sales team who hands you off after the contract is signed.
The selections library · Jupiter, Florida
Florida Certified General Contractor CGC 1500000. Fully licensed, bonded and insured.
Gold Coast Builders Association · NAHB · Florida Home Builders Association.
Third-party inspection at four stages. FORTIFIED coastal construction practices throughout.
Two-year comprehensive workmanship warranty. Ten-year structural coverage.
They told us the truth about the budget when it would have been easier to tell us what we wanted to hear. That set the tone for the next fourteen months.
R. Delacroix · Jupiter Island
We will happily walk you through a home under construction and introduce you to the family living in one we finished five years ago. Very few decisions are made better from a brochure.