Buying in Greely Farms (Ridgefield, WA): Holt Homes vs. David Weekley, Phase by Phase

Greely Farms is the biggest thing being built in Ridgefield: 553 single-family homes on 135 acres east of downtown, entitled after two years of hearings, with 40 acres of parks and open space, two miles of new sewer line and a pair of picnic shelters built from the old barn's reclaimed wood. Two builders sell here, side by side and often on the same street. Holt Homes, the Oregon-Washington production builder, sells from the low $500s. David Weekley Homes, the Houston-based builder that is now part of Sekisui House, sells from the mid $500s with a new model that opened in May 2026.

That combination is the reason to read this page. Two builders in one community means the same dollars buy visibly different things a few hundred feet apart, and the comparison is where a buyer's leverage lives. It also means two sales offices, two design processes, two lenders and two sets of incentives, none of which will explain the other. This guide does.

Community overview

Builders: Holt Homes (sales office 317 N 86th Pl, open daily 11 to 6) and David Weekley Homes (sales office 8936 S 1st St) Location: East of NE 10th Ave and south of NE 279th St, on the east side of Ridgefield, minutes from I-5 exit 14 by way of Pioneer Street Status: Now selling. Phases 1, 2A and 2C are essentially built out. Phases 2B and 3B are selling. Phase 4, 109 lots, is under construction with its first final plat approved by the city council in August 2026. Total homesites: 553 (city records for phases 1 through 4 add up to exactly that) Lot sizes: 3,800–10,000 sq ft Home sizes: Holt 1,542–3,370 sq ft; David Weekley 1,569–2,891 sq ft Pricing: Holt from $524,960 at Greely Farms; move-in-ready homes today at $559,960 to $664,960; larger plans on N 88th Dr listed to about $890,000. David Weekley plans from $565,990 to $690,990; move-in-ready homes today at $627,230 to $672,307. HOA: $35 per month (one third-party site says $42), managed by Rolling Rock Community Management, covering common-area landscaping School district: Ridgefield School District. See the schools section below, because the builders' pages are out of date.

(Pricing and inventory reflect the builders' sites and MLS as of September 3, 2026. Contact The Tartan Team for current availability.)

What makes Greely Farms worth considering

Start with the price, because in this county it is unusual. Ridgefield's median list price is around $650,000 and the city has been the fastest-growing in Washington since 2019, at nearly seven percent a year. A new 1,600 square foot home from a production builder at $525,000, with a heat pump, slab counters and a fenced lot, inside the Ridgefield school district, is the entry point to the city for a lot of families, and Greely Farms is where most of that inventory is.

Then the setting. Eight acres of the open space are inside the community as parks, a playground and paved trails, with Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood on the horizon from the higher streets. The 5,200-acre Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge is a few minutes west. Downtown Ridgefield, the Saturday market and the waterfront project are the same distance. The I-5 junction has changed completely since the first phase sold: Costco opened in August 2024, In-N-Out and a dozen other businesses have followed at the Union Ridge Town Center, and Pioneer Street was widened to two lanes each direction between 56th and Royle Road, finished this winter. The Hillhurst Commercial Center on the south side of town added a coffee shop, a noodle house and a pub this year.

Finally, the two-builder structure. Holt is the volume builder here, with thirteen plans and the lower entry price. David Weekley builds fewer plans with more customization at the design center and generally more square footage per dollar at the top of its range. Buyers who tour both and come back with notes tend to get a better house.

Holt Homes at Greely Farms

Plans: Thirteen plans from 1,542 to 3,370 square feet. The ones you will see most: the 1609 and 1670 (from $524,960 here), the 1857 (from $554,960), the 2038, 2184 and 2299 two-story family plans, the single-level 1800 with a three-car garage, and the 2676 and 3370 at the top. Watch the plan-page prices on Holt's site; they aggregate several communities and run lower than the Greely Farms price.

Move-in ready now: 206 N 89th Loop (plan 2366, $639,960) and 210 N 89th Loop (plan 2321, $664,960), with 9056 S 2nd Lane (plan 1857, $559,960) finishing this fall. On the MLS, Holt has roughly twenty more lots listed on N Russet Place, N 89th Court and Loop, and N 88th Drive, from $544,845 for a 1609 to $890,710 for a 3370. Several show price reductions. The former sales office at 117 S 87th Ave is for sale as a finished 2676 at $713,911.

Included: 36-inch gas fireplace, slab granite or quartz, full-height backsplash, stainless appliances, laminate through the main-floor halls, two-tone paint, undermount sink, and an electric heat pump with air conditioning. That heat pump is worth noting against builders who still sell AC as an upgrade.

Design center: Holt assigns a design center per community for cabinets, tile, flooring, counters, plumbing fixtures and exterior paint, in person or virtual. Ask which one and how many appointments before you sign.

Incentives and lender: As of this writing Holt is offering a 30-year FHA loan at 4.999 percent (5.737 percent APR) through HomeAmerican Mortgage on select move-in-ready homes for contracts signed by September 17, 2026 and closed by year end, with a 680 score, 3.5 percent down and a 43 percent debt-to-income cap. Funds are described as limited and first come, first served. Holt's separate "Imagine Happier Bonus" is a cash credit toward upgrades, closing costs or a rate buydown whose amount is quoted per buyer. Holt's financing pages name two different lender setups, HomeAmerican on one and Borrow Smart Mortgage and U.S. Bank on another, which is a reason to ask which offer is actually on the table for your house.

Warranty: 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty: one year workmanship, one year systems as Holt states it, ten years structural, transferable. Claims must be filed within fifteen days after the workmanship year ends, which is a deadline to put on the calendar the day you close.

David Weekley Homes at Greely Farms

Plans: Eight plans. Two single-level, the Bicknell (1,569 sq ft, from $565,990) and the Blue Ridge (1,858 sq ft, from $585,990), and six two-story: Hayhurst ($589,990), Caden ($615,990), Anson ($635,990, the new model), Cabot ($659,990), Eason ($669,990) and Alder (2,885 sq ft, from $690,990). Several plans offer a three-car garage.

Move-in ready now: 9118 S 1st St (Hayhurst, three-car garage, about $625,000) and 9110 S 1st St (Alder, $672,307), with an Anson at 130 S 91st Pl due in early October. Roughly ten more are listed on S 1st St and S 91st and 93rd Places between $588,050 and $699,990; one Bicknell on S 93rd Place advertises Mt. St. Helens views and has been reduced.

Included: David Weekley does not publish a base-feature list for this community. Its model is "thousands of Custom Choices" selected at a design center, which means the included spec is something to get in writing before you compare it to Holt's.

Design center: By appointment, and in Oregon: Paulson's in Tigard and Macadam Floor and Design in Lake Oswego. Budget the drive and the day.

Incentives and lender: The preferred lender is Priority Home Mortgage, which David Weekley owns 80 percent of; using it is not required. The spring and summer 2026 promotions, a stepped-rate ARM on quick move-ins and "up to $30,000" or "$40,000" on select homes, have expired. Ask what replaced them. Builders rarely go from a $30,000 incentive to nothing.

Warranty: Described as multi-level; get the document.

The schools, and why the builders' pages are wrong

Both builders' pages still list the old configuration. Here is the current one. Sunset Ridge Elementary, the district's first new elementary in 62 years, opened August 24, 2026 at 7025 N 10th St, on the same corridor as Greely Farms' Phase 4. Elementaries moved to K through 5 for 2026-27, the intermediate school is being retired, and all three elementaries feed View Ridge Middle and then Ridgefield High. The board redrew elementary boundaries in December 2025 and moved sixteen areas from South Ridge to Sunset Ridge. Whether your specific lot lands in South Ridge or Sunset Ridge is a lookup on the district's site by address, and it can differ across the community. Do it before you pick a lot, not after.

The bigger picture matters too. Ridgefield voters have turned down six school bonds since 2018, the new school was funded by levies instead, and as of last year roughly a third of the district's students were in portables. The district is easing that, and a new school opening is real progress. It is still a district growing faster than it can build, which is worth knowing when a sales sheet says "top-rated schools."

What to watch out for

The lot premium is real and it is not on the sign

Holt's plan pages say it plainly: pricing "does not include lot premiums or builder-selected upgrades." Lots here run from 3,800 to 10,000 square feet, and the corner, view and greenbelt positions in Phase 3B and Phase 4 will carry premiums that neither builder publishes. Ask for the premium on each lot you like, in writing, and ask what the same plan costs on the plainest lot in the phase. The difference is your negotiating room.

Two builders, one comparison

Nobody at either sales office will hand you the other builder's included-features list. Get both, line them up against the same square footage, and add the design-center and lot numbers before you decide. In our experience the answer is not always the lower sticker.

Incentives with clocks on them

Holt's FHA rate offer expires September 17 and is limited to select homes and first-come funds. David Weekley's summer promotions just ended. A deadline is a sales tool as much as a saving, and the right response is to run the offer against an outside quote over the years you will actually hold the loan, which is what our builder incentive calculator does, before you let the calendar decide.

The phase you are buying into

Phase 4 is 109 lots that will be under construction around you for a while, and the adjacent NE 10th Avenue corridor has more coming: a 151-lot second phase of Urban Downs, a commercial site at N 10th and a rail-yard expansion. Ridgefield's own plan concedes the city has only two real ways in and out, Pioneer Street and Hillhurst Road, and the fix, a southern connector to I-5 near exit 11, is still a funding request. If your commute runs through the Pioneer roundabouts at 8 a.m., drive it at 8 a.m. before you sign.

HOA and CC&Rs

Dues are modest and cover common landscaping. What the CC&Rs say about fences, RVs, rentals and exterior changes is not online. Rolling Rock Community Management in Hillsboro holds them; get them before the earnest money goes hard.

Inspections

Yes, on a production home, and three of them: pre-drywall, pre-closing and before the one-year warranty expires, each by a licensed inspector. We schedule them and walk them with you, and our construction background means we know what to ask about before the walls close up.

Why bring your own representation

Both sales offices are staffed by capable people who work for their builders. In nearly all cases the builder covers the buyer's agent's fee. What you get for it is someone who reads both contracts, puts the lot premium and the design budget on paper, runs the lender math without a deadline, and knows what a Holt heat pump and a Weekley design appointment are actually worth against each other. Everything we find goes in writing before you sign — here's how we work.

Your options with The Tartan Team

Greely Farms is a community where the second opinion pays for itself in the first conversation. We bring written analysis and construction-trained judgment to every new-construction purchase: builder-to-builder comparison, lot and premium review, contract review, financing comparison, design-center strategy and inspection oversight, with Dave's background as a master electrician and carpenter behind all of it.

And before you commit to anything, you will have a written Engagement Proposal in hand, exact scope and exact fee, so the decision is fully informed.

Also looking at Ridgefield? See our guide to Quail Ridge (Toll Brothers, from $1M) and the full Ridgefield new-construction page, including Paradise Pointe and Sanderling Park.