Case Study: Buffington Homes achieves near 1% budget variance and 20% higher option profitability with BuilderMT

For Buffington Homes’ Profitability, It’s About Option Pricing and Variance Control

Buffington Homes is an Austin-area production builder (about 250 starts, 48 staff) that offers thousands of option configurations across dozens of floor plans, creating a complex pricing and cost-control challenge. Their primary goals were to maintain accurate, universally synced option pricing and to hold construction budget variance to about 1% to protect slim margins.

They implemented BuilderMT’s Workflow Management Suite (with the Model and Options Manager, Superintendent Portal, and integrations to Sales Simplicity and Sage 300 CRE) to centralize pricing, track material/labor/sales/margins per option, and enforce tiered variance approvals. The system eliminated manual entry and errors, boosted option profitability by about 20% versus other systems, delivered near–1% variances through precise reporting and adjustments, and gave real‑time visibility to quickly react to cost shifts.

Buffington Homes

Nedda Brown

Vice President of Operations