Ball Homes

About Ball Homes

Ball Homes is a real estate operator. Ball Homes operates in Knoxville, Tennessee, Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky and Louisville, Kentucky. Its investment focus is on Single-Family Homes.

Ball Homes is a family-owned homebuilder and residential developer incorporated in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1959 by Don and Mira Ball. The company has operated for more than 65 years and is now run by second- and third-generation Ball management. Its first houses were starter homes for Lexington first responders, and the business later expanded from Central Kentucky into Louisville in 1997 and Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2011. The company builds single-family homes, townhomes, and selected multifamily units in Lexington, Georgetown, Versailles, Nicholasville, Louisville, Knoxville, and surrounding Kentucky and Tennessee communities. Ball Homes reported 552 single-family home sales in 2023 and said annual volume is typically about 500 to 650 homes, with around 250 employees. Its affiliated operations include Christie’s International Real Estate Bluegrass, Walden Mortgage Group, rental properties, and RML Construction/property management, while most field construction trades are performed by subcontractors and internal employees handle other company functions directly today companywide.

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