Hunters Crossing is continuing to grow as Sealy prepares for the next phase of residential development. In a recent Houston Business Journal feature, Faircroft shared plans for the community’s future expansion, including new single-family homes, additional phases, and recreational amenities designed to support the growing Sealy area.
Read more about the plans for Hunters Crossing and Faircroft’s continued investment in Sealy.
Read the full Houston Business Journal article →https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2026/05/21/sealy-hunters-crossing-faircroft-lot-agreement.html
Residential Real Estate
Sealy strikes first deal allowing smaller lots as Houston development pushes west
By Florian Martin - Growth editor, Houston Business Journal May 21, 2026
Story Highlights
- Sealy approved a developer agreement allowing smaller residential lots to accommodate growth.
- Faircroft's Hunters Crossing will eventually include about 950 homes across 386 acres.
- Sealy looks to capitalize on Houston's westward development boom.
As Houston-area developers are expanding farther and farther out, one city in the path of growth is making adjustments.
The city of Sealy last month entered into a developer agreement with Faircroft, based in the Katy area, for the development of the next phases of the Hunters Crossing community southwest of the intersection of state Highway 36 and FM 2187. The agreement allows for homesites smaller than the city's minimum required residential lot width of 60 feet. In return, the developer will donate 23 acres for a city park and detention and build roads and infrastructure.
"It's a win-win," said Sealy Mayor Carolyn Bilski. "It gives everybody the opportunity to have the lifestyle they want and to provide the recreational space that we so desperately need."
Faircroft parent company BSR Properties began developing Hunters Crossing in 2020 as its first master-planned community. It completed the 72-lot first phase in 2021, selling the last of those homes in 2022, and broke ground on the 112-lot second phase in spring 2025, according to Gareth Bracken, president of the company's relatively new homebuilding brand, Homes by Faircroft.
The delay stems from a development moratorium the city enacted for more than two years due to a water shortage.
Faircroft and Austin-based Brohn Homes have thus far built about 40 homes in the second phase, which includes a total of 30 attached townhomes. Houses in the initial phases have all been built on 60- and 65-foot-wide lots, and the townhomes are on 130-foot-wide lots for three attached units.
Thanks to the developer agreement, the next phases are designed for single family homes on 45-, 50- and 60-foot lots on 308 acres. In total, Hunters Crossing will include about 950 homes on 386 acres.
During a two-year process, Faircroft showed council members what types of homes the developer would be building under the current ordinance, including dense townhomes, Bracken said, versus what it envisioned if allowed to build on the smaller lots.
"People want to be able to live in single-family homes with separate side yards - so that people have a front yard, backyard, no adjoining walls - but from an affordability standpoint, we've got to be able to do smaller square-footages on smaller lots so that we can still provide a quality product at an affordable price," he said.
Homes in the upcoming phases will range from roughly 1,700 to 3,500 square feet in size and from the low $300,000s to the low $600,000s in price.
Faircroft plans to bring on one or two additional homebuilders for the remaining three or more phases. Phase 3 includes 200 lots, expected to be delivered by the middle of next year, as well as a small amenity park with a pool, Bracken said.
Hunters Crossing was one of the first residential communities in Sealy, along with First America Homes' Dove Landing and D.R. Horton's Westward Pointe, in addition to a few large-lot and acreage communities, according to Community Builders Advisory Services.
Last year, League City-based Windy Hill Development, in partnership with Houston-based Connor Investment Real Estate, acquired 300 acres northwest of Sealy for a new community with up to 1,300 homes.
More developers have bought or are looking at tracts in the area, Sealy Assistant City Manager Mike Barrow said.
The city's new willingness to allow for smaller lots may bring even more developers to Sealy.
"When developers come to see us, ... one of the first questions they have is, 'We want 40-foot- or we want 45-foot-wide lots,'" Bilski said. "And we've set the tone, we've set a precedent, and this is the way we're going to operate, I believe, in the future with this council, that they want to see the developers recognize the need for recreation and a positive lifestyle in Sealy, not the city urban craziness."
Jumping the river
As Houston's residential development craze has moved past Katy to the Fulshear and Brookshire areas, it was only a question of time until it would jump across the Brazos River.
Brookshire continues to rank near the of top the Houston Association of Realtors' "10 Hottest Communities" list. Home sales there increased 101 % year over year in the first quarter. The previous quarter, the Brookshire area topped the list with nearly 199% year-over-year growth in home sales.
Employers have also adjusted, with many moving their headquarters west of downtown, including to the Energy Corridor and other west Houston submarkets.
In early 2022, Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research published a review of U.S. Census data that showed Harris County's population center crossed the Interstate 610 Loop for the first time, after moving 2 miles to the northwest since 2000.
