Aurora's award-winning neo-traditional master-planned community: 640 acres, nine builders, 70+ floor plans, and a 22-acre central park, five minutes from DIA. 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 Painted Prairie Difference
With nine active builders and 70+ floor plans, a large share of Painted Prairie homes are sold directly by the builder and 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 Painted Prairie listing appears on Zillow® or Realtor.com®, it has typically already been shown, and sometimes already taken.
A meaningful share of new homes at Painted Prairie are sold directly by KB Home, Toll Brothers, Risewell, 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 Painted Prairie builder, including quick move-in homes that don't appear on public portals, and we pair it with direct MLS access for any Painted Prairie 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 in Painted Prairie 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
Painted Prairie is a 640-acre neo-traditional community bordered by Piccadilly, Himalaya, 56th, and 64th, directly across from the Gaylord Rockies Resort. National Community of the Year in 2022. Walkable parks, alley-loaded streetscapes, and front-porch architecture — designed to grow into itself for decades.
A 55-acre planned urban hub at the heart of the community: workspaces, shopping, dining, and a planned farmers market. Surrounded by the 22-acre High Prairie Park and seven additional smaller parks woven through the residential nodes.
Read more in the Prairie Post ›The two communities most often compared to Painted Prairie. Green Valley Ranch is the established option with a wider range of resale homes; The Aurora Highlands is the larger new-construction master plan to the south. Different trade-offs — price per square foot, lot size, walkability, finish level — that matter when you're choosing.
Compare builders & communities ›Five miles from Denver International Airport, nine miles from Anschutz Medical Campus, seventeen miles from downtown Denver. Direct access via E-470, I-70, and the A-Line rail at Peña Station. Buyers here often work in aerospace, healthcare, hospitality, or commute to DTC.
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 Painted Prairie. 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. Detached or attached, single-story or two-story, town-center or quieter pocket. No pressure, no pitch. Just listening.
The full Painted Prairie 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 Painted Prairie 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 exactly 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 and the Aurora Highlands P-8), neighborhood orientation, and ongoing market intel after move-in. The relationship doesn't end at closing.
Selling In Painted Prairie
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 Painted Prairie 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 ›
The Prairie Post
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 Painted Prairie.
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Get The First Edition →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 Painted Prairie 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 Painted Prairie homes are sold directly by the builder and never make it to the MLS. The Principal Team maintains the full builder inventory list across the nine builders active at Painted Prairie, including quick move-in homes that don't appear on Zillow or Redfin, paired with continuously refreshed MLS data for any Painted Prairie resale.
Painted Prairie is a neo-traditional master-planned community on roughly 640 acres in northeast Aurora, Colorado, bordered by Piccadilly, Himalaya, 56th, and 64th. The community offers more than 70 floor plans from nine national and regional homebuilders, ranging from paired villas and three-story townhomes to detached ranch and two-story single-family homes. Construction is HOA-governed and multi-generational; it is not age-restricted. Floor plans are predominantly alley-loaded with front-porch streetscapes.
Painted Prairie home prices typically range from the high $300s for entry-level paired homes and townhomes to the high $800s for larger single-family floor plans. The most common buyer price range is $400,000 to $900,000. Active inventory mixes new-construction quick move-in homes from the builder sales offices with resale listings on the MLS. We can send a current snapshot on request.
Painted Prairie is in northeast Aurora, Colorado, bordered by Piccadilly, Himalaya, 56th, and 64th. The community sits directly across from the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, roughly five miles from Denver International Airport, nine miles from Anschutz Medical Center, and seventeen miles from downtown Denver. Access is via E-470, I-70, and the A-Line commuter rail at Peña Station.
Painted Prairie has hosted nine national and regional homebuilders across its build-out phases: KB Home (single-family detached and paired villas), Toll Brothers (the Skyview and Horizon three-story townhome collections), David Weekley Homes (ranch and two-story single-family), Pulte Homes (two-story with alley garages), Tri Pointe Homes (two-story alley-load), Century Communities (Haven I and Haven II single-family collections), McStain Neighborhoods (single-family and townhomes), Remington Homes (front-load and alley-load two-story and ranch), and Risewell Homes (Garden Court two-story). The active builder roster shifts as phases sell out and new ones open. We track the current builder lineup, base pricing, lot premiums, and quick move-in inventory 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 with builders. We know exactly 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-level service, direct MLS access, the full off-MLS builder inventory list across all nine Painted Prairie builders, and a listing commission structure that's more competitive than most brokerages.
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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