Ranch houses, rebuilt from the studs.

Southwest Ranches is thirteen square miles of one-acre-and-up parcels that voted itself into existence in 2000 rather than get absorbed by a neighbor. The housing follows: long low ranch houses from the 1970s and 80s in Sunshine Ranches and Green Meadows, and custom estates built since the 1990s along Holatee Trail, Appaloosa Trail and inside Landmark Ranch Estates. What owners here ask for is not a smaller footprint. It is a whole-home remodel that opens the plan, replaces forty-year-old mechanicals, and finally makes the house match the land around it.

Everything gets permitted through the Town of Southwest Ranches, whose building division sits at Town Hall on Griffin Road, runs plan review and inspections under contract, and takes every submittal electronically. Two county layers sit over the town's review. The Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals adopts the county amendments to the Florida Building Code and certifies the officials who will review and inspect your job. And Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone as well, so every window, door and roof assembly needs an HVHZ product approval. Well and septic parcels bring the Florida Department of Health in Broward County into it too.

A remodel on an acre is a logistics problem as much as a construction one. Crews come down a long private drive, material stages where it will not crush a swale or block the right-of-way trail, and the site stays orderly because every neighbor can see all of it. The scope is agreed in writing and priced before anything is demolished, one supervisor runs the job every day it is open, and the same team answers for it from estimate through warranty. Twenty-plus years in South Florida, 150-plus remodels and additions delivered, all permitted and inspected.