LINO Homes designs and builds custom and semi custom homes across Florida's Space Coast and Treasure Coast, serving Brevard and Indian River County. From lot selection to final walkthrough, we build on your land and back every home with a 2-10 structural warranty.
Building in Melbourne or anywhere in Brevard County? Enter your zip code and see in seconds if LINO Homes builds in your area. We serve all of Brevard and beyond.
You don't need to be your own general contractor. LINO Homes handles the lot, the permits, the trades, the inspections, and the schedule. One contract. One builder. One number to call: (321) 499-3006. See our custom home process.
We're a Florida Certified Building Contractor, license CBC1266870, searchable on the state DBPR portal. Our office is at 620 E New Haven Ave, Unit 101, in Melbourne, open Monday through Friday. Check us out before you call. We'd rather you verify than take our word for it.
Every LINO home comes with a 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty: one year of workmanship coverage, two years on systems, and ten years of structural coverage, backed by a third party, so your protection never depends on a handshake.
Built right, or it's on us
These are the standards every LINO home is held to, in Melbourne and everywhere else we build. Hold your next builder to the same four.
Straight walls and level windows aren't extras. Every frame is checked level, plumb, and square before drywall closes anything in. Bring your own level to a walkthrough. We mean that.
Every change goes through a written change order you approve, and see priced, before work continues. If anything is built off plan without one, making it right is on us, not on you.
Quality dies when builds are rushed to hit a quota. We schedule around the work itself, inspections, cure times, trade sequencing, and give you an honest timeline up front.
Scope, selections, and price go into your contract before construction starts. That keeps our interests and yours pointed at the same thing: your home, built right.
New to the Space Coast and don't have a local network yet? Start with ours. We build in Melbourne, West Melbourne, Palm Bay, Viera, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Grant Valkaria, Malabar, all of Brevard County, plus Indian River County on the Treasure Coast.
In Melbourne
Homes and lots we currently have available in Melbourne itself, each built to the same standard we'll bring to yours. Don't see one that fits? Start from a floor plan and we'll build it on your lot.
Pre-Construction9261 101st Ct, Vero Beach FL 329674 bd · 3 ba · 2,266 sqftStarting at $482,000Pre-Construction715 Talmadge Ave SE, Palm Bay FL 329094 bd · 3 ba · 2,266 sqftStarting at $482,000
Pre-Construction1621 Trigard St SE, Palm Bay FL 329093 bd · 2 ba · 1,910 sqftStarting at $412,900Pre-Construction1615 Tigard St SE, Palm Bay FL 329094 bd · 3 ba · 2,266 sqftStarting at $482,000Photo coming soonUnder Construction1805 Trapper Ave SE, Palm Bay FL 329093 bd · 2 ba · 1,681 sqftStarting at $399,900Under Construction1697 Weiman Rd SE, Palm Bay FL 329093 bd · 2 ba · 1,910 sqftListed at $412,900
Start with one of our floor plans, or bring your own vision. Every plan can be customized to fit your lot, your family, and how you actually live. Browse our custom home floor plans for Florida's Space Coast and Treasure Coast, then tell us what you'd change.
Before you choose
Across Florida, custom homes generally run about $280 to $400 per square foot once you are into upgraded finishes, with the wider range across all build types sitting closer to $150 to $350. Florida sits above the national line — the NAHB put custom-built homes at roughly $166 per square foot nationally in 2024 — largely because our hurricane code requires impact-rated glazing, roof attachment and structural connections that most states do not.
Our own Melbourne-area builds typically land at [[LINO_SQFT_RANGE]], which puts a common LINO home in the [[LINO_TYPICAL_BUILD]] range before land. Budget separately for permits and impact fees, which commonly total $10,000 to $30,000 on a custom home, and hold 10 to 20 percent in contingency.
Those are planning numbers, not a quote. Your lot decides a lot of it: elevation, fill, utilities and access get priced before the house does. Send us the address or parcel number and we will give you a real number for your site — and we put your price in writing before we break ground.
Buying is usually cheaper up front, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. Over the three months to June 2026, the median sale price in Melbourne was about $309,000, at roughly $208 per square foot — below what it costs to build new here. If your only measure is purchase price, an existing home wins.
What you are actually choosing between is different, though. Building new means a current-code structure, a new roof, and impact-rated openings from day one. In Florida that matters more than almost anywhere else: insurance and roof age drive carrying costs hard, and homes built to current code with impact glazing hold their value better than the national average. An older Melbourne home at $208 a foot can carry a roof replacement, a re-pipe, a panel upgrade and an insurance problem behind it.
The honest framing: buy existing if you need to be in a house this year and the numbers have to work today. Build if you are planning to be in the home ten years or more, you want the layout to fit how you actually live, and you would rather spend the money once than inherit someone else's deferred maintenance. Bring us the listing you are considering and the lot you are considering, and we will help you compare them properly.
Most builders will not publish this, which is exactly why we do. Comparing bids is impossible when nobody tells you what is behind the allowance. Here is what we spec:
Windows and doors: PGT impact-rated. Roofing: IKO Dynasty and Cambridge. Cabinets and countertops: Grove and Grantley, shaker style. Flooring: Shaw. HVAC: Goodman and Carrier. Plumbing fixtures: Moen. Appliances: Samsung and LG. Paint: Sherwin-Williams. Garage doors: Amarr Lincoln. Pools: Intercoastal Pools.
Take this list to any other builder you are talking to in Brevard County and ask them for theirs in writing. The answer, and how fast it comes, tells you most of what you need to know.
It means impact-rated windows and doors, engineered roof attachment, and structural connections rated for the design wind pressure at your address. On the Space Coast that is not an upgrade you decide on later — it is code, and it belongs in the budget from the first conversation.
It also means the design wind pressure changes as you move east. A build in West Melbourne is engineered differently from one in Indialantic or Satellite Beach, and the difference lands in your window and door package before it lands anywhere else. This is one of the main reasons two builders can quote the same square footage at very different numbers, and why we price the site before the house.
Building codes and departmental requirements change. Confirm anything here with the City of Melbourne Building Department, or Brevard County if your parcel is unincorporated, before you rely on it.
Check us rather than take our word for it. We are a Florida Certified Building Contractor, license CBC1266870, searchable on the state DBPR portal. Our office is a real one you can walk into at 620 E New Haven Ave, Unit 101, Melbourne. Our team has been building in Brevard County for over 15 years.
We are a member of the Space Coast Builders Association, which carries membership in the Florida Home Builders Association and the National Association of Home Builders with it. Every home comes with a third-party 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty: one year on workmanship, two years on systems, ten years structural — so your protection does not depend on us still being here or still liking you.
And our reviews are public. Read them on Google.
Four things, and you can hold any builder to them.
You talk to the builder. Not a sales rep who hands you off after the contract. One contract, one builder, one number.
The plans you sign are the plans we build. Every change goes through a written change order you approve and see priced before work continues. If something is built off plan without one, making it right is on us.
Level, plumb and square, checked before drywall. Every frame gets checked before anything closes in. Bring your own level to a walkthrough. We mean that.
Your price in writing before we break ground. Scope, selections and price go in the contract first. That is also why we publish our brand list above — a fixed price means nothing if the allowances behind it are vague.
Most custom projects in Florida run 12 to 24 months from design to completion. LINO builds in Melbourne typically take [[LINO_TIMELINE]] once permits are issued, though your parcel, your plan and the permitting authority all move that.
Which authority you are dealing with matters. Inside Melbourne city limits you permit through the City of Melbourne. West Melbourne and Palm Bay have their own departments. Unincorporated parcels — much of Suntree, Viera and the areas out toward Grant-Valkaria — go through Brevard County. We schedule around the actual work: inspections, cure times and trade sequencing, not a quota date. You get an honest timeline up front rather than an optimistic one you will be disappointed by later.
Yes — building on your land is our core model. We build across Melbourne, West Melbourne, Suntree, Viera, Palm Bay, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Grant-Valkaria and Malabar, plus Indian River County on the Treasure Coast.
If you have not bought the lot yet, talk to us before you close. Flood zone, base flood elevation, utilities, soil and access decide the design and the budget long before finishes do, and we would rather tell you a parcel is a problem than build you an expensive answer to it. Send us the address or parcel number and we will tell you what we see — including when the answer is no.
Do not have a lot yet? We help with lot selection, and we have lots available to build on.
Send us the address or the parcel number and we'll tell you what we see, including when the answer is no. You'll talk to a builder, not a salesperson.
LINO Construction Group · CBC1266870
620 E New Haven Ave, Unit 101, Melbourne, FL 32901
Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm · sales@linohomes.com
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