The Tom Hobbs Company

The attention to detail in a Tom Hobbs Company custom home is obvious. The architectural style, placement on lot, and luxurious landscaping has been designed in great detail to maximize value and function, as well as produce a home that beckons you inside. Upon entering, you will find beautiful interior finishes that accentuates a well-designed floor plan and creative use of space. Quality, comfort, and value are as visible as the brick and mortar. Our passion for homebuilding makes it imperative that each of the homes we build conveys a spirit of trust, competence, and personal service that survives long after the initial delivery.

Quality of life is a key feature of every Tom Hobbs home. To obtain this, our team begins by developing an open and honest rapport with each home buyer. Getting to know each client on a personal basis helps determine the unique features that will best suit that client’s needs. Our highly personable team guides this process. Although building a quality home is priority, the team knows the importance of maintaining the client relationship, being available to answer questions that involve lot selection and architectural details, as well as supervising the many custom selections (such as cabinets and tile) that are needed to make the home exclusive to you and your family’s tastes and desires. Our knowledgeable team is the reason that the Tom Hobbs Company has been successfully building custom homes in the Austin area for over 15 years.

In order to fulfill our goal of building a quality home, the Tom Hobbs Company team expands to include our highly creative and reliable architects, engineers and subcontractors. We have spent years developing relationships with these talented individuals to insure our ability to build your home to the high standards that we demand.

In order to better serve our clients, we participate in continuing education in the latest technology and energy efficient building methods and new products. The team stays knowledgeable about and encourages the use of energy conserving building materials and techniques. Examples of our standard energy conserving methods include: 13.0 SEER Carrier air conditioning units, Dual Pane wood windows with Low-E Glazing, R-19 insulation in the walls, R-38 insulation in the ceiling, and circulating water heater pump.

Tom and his team personally supervise every phase of the construction process, from the initial concepts, through the construction process, to landscaping and after-delivery warranty service. The Tom Hobbs Company strives to embed quality, value, innovation and efficiency into the foundation of every home they build!

About Tom

In 1970, Tom Hobbs received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California in Berkley. Three years later, Tom received his juris doctor (JD) from UCLA. As a real estate lawyer, Tom had the unique opportunity to work with homebuilders, as well the regulatory authorities, land developers, lenders, and homebuyers, from a completely different perspective. He acquired a great deal of knowledge about the industry as general counselor for a large homebuilding company in California. It was through this experience that Tom discovered his passion for homebuilding. In 1979 Tom began working in the homebuilding industry with his brother in Southern California. In this arena, Tom discovered how to make a difference in a future homebuyer’s life. Within a few years, Tom and his company were building in excess of 500 single family homes and condominiums per year. Because of Tom’s passion for the product and meeting the client’s needs, in 1987 Tom and his wife, Barbara, began their own custom home building company. There is no doubt; it is the custom home building industry where Tom truly shines. Tom has a remarkable ability to walk into a home, at any stage of the construction process, and make suggestions that will improve the home.

In 1994, Tom, his wife and four children moved to Austin. Within a few years, the Tom Hobbs Company was recognized as one of the premier builders in the Austin area. Tom continued to work hard at refining the home building process, as well as improving his company’s product. In order to learn more about process improvement, Tom enrolled in the MBA program at St. Edward’s University, where he graduated in the spring of 2004. He has since been applying this business experience to his company.

Despite having a name that stands for quality, he and his team remain loyal to their longtime philosophy – our only purpose in building any home is to transform our client’s unique desires for their dream home into reality.