Grow the house, keep the land.

Nobody buys in Southwest Ranches to feel cramped, and yet the houses are often the small thing on a big parcel. Adding on is the obvious move: a rear wing with a primary suite behind a ranch in Rolling Oaks, a guest house for parents or a trainer near the barn, a second story on a house in Ivanhoe Estates where the owners want a view of their own pasture. Because lots here start at an acre and run to five, the constraint is rarely land. It is septic, setbacks and drainage.

An addition clears zoning and site-plan review at the Town of Southwest Ranches before the building application moves, and the Town's engineering side issues fill, excavation and grading permits where work could affect floodplain storage, a real concern on the eastern edge of the Everglades. You cannot build over a drainfield or its reserve area, so the septic layout often decides the footprint. Guest houses are allowed but regulated: one per parcel, no full kitchen, no separate meter or mailing address, and buildings housing animals carry their own yard requirement.

Out here the hard part is not land, it is the seam between old structure and new. Tying a new foundation to a forty-year-old one, matching stucco texture and roof tile so the seam disappears, upgrading tie-beams, keeping the occupied half of the house sealed, warm and quiet while the other half is open sky. PGX runs it as one contract with one supervisor, a fixed written scope, and a schedule you can hold us to. Twenty-plus years in South Florida, licensed and insured, and every project permitted and inspected from footing to final.