OVER 40 YEARS
Standing the test of time
We started our company more than four decades ago with two homes and one conviction: that we could build a business that would stand out and stand the test of time.


From Left to Right
Tim McMahon, CEO
Greg Fischer, Chairman
Bob Hawksley, CEO Emeritus
Henry and Elaine Fischer persevered with a clear vision and a fairly simple system. They were committed to doing three things:
Building homes for customers stepping up from their first or second house
Building homes in communities that would last for generations.
Providing a customer experience that was more personalized than a production home and more affordable than a custom one.
That simple approach paid off. We've since built tens of thousands of homes in hundreds of communities in Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Louisville, Dayton, and St. Louis. Sales have grown nearly every year that we've been in business.
In 2021, we became one of Greater Cincinnati's billion-dollar companies.

Our Mission is simple and clear:
We want Fischer Homes to be the Creators of the Best Total New Home Solution and Builders of an Exceptional Experience.
The fundamentals of our business are reflected in six critical success factors:

Grow by creating an exceptional customer experience.
Improve operating costs by becoming the most efficient home builder.
Acquire homesites in the right neighborhoods under the right terms and conditions.
Maintain strong financial resources and conservative debt structure.
Hire, develop and retain a team of high-performing individuals.
Develop an information system consistent with continuous process improvements
Our business is designed around four pillars:
Strategic Planning
Sales and Marketing
Construction
Land Strategy and Acquisition
Building someone’s home is a privilege.
They're investing in a relationship that they expect to be as important to us as it is to them. We operate with great respect for the role we play in our customers' lives.
Our operating philosophy is built on a few simple but enduring principles:
“We Promise Only What We Can Deliver – and Deliver What We Promise.”
“We Believe in Doing It Right the First Time, Every Time.”
“We Have a Responsibility to Create a Place Where Everyone Can Do the Best Work of Their Life, Every Day.”
“We Are What We Tolerate. The Minimum Level of ‘Acceptable’ Performance is a Neon Billboard to Team Members. We Set the Bar High.”
“No Margin – No Mission!”
We treat customers with respect by being as honest and transparent as possible at every step of the homebuilding journey.
Clarity of Purpose
Knowing who we serve
The homebuilding market attracts an incredibly diverse mix of customers: first-time buyers, trade-up buyers, value-oriented and premium-tier customers, singles, couples, growing families, blended families, multi-generational families, and empty nesters.
We’re trying to be head and shoulders above our competitors for the customers we’re best equipped to serve. And we’re upfront with customers when we’re not convinced we can delight them at every step of the journey based on what they need or expect.
We’re deeply committed to innovation and to the expansion of our business, but we’re also committed to grow from our core.
We emphasize quality over volume, bottom-line growth over top-line growth, and markets that match our capabilities.
It starts with our neighborhoods.
We then focus on the model home experience.
16 Components of Value
We focus on the 16 components of value that matter most to a customer’s purchase decision. Sixteen may sound like a lot, but it’s the right mix. The interdependence of these components is what creates the greatest possible value, which is why we track and leverage them holistically to create the best total new home solution and an exceptional customer experience.
Creating communities
Designing communities people love
The neighborhood is the first decision home buyers make.
Great communities feature well-built and well-placed homes. They’re designed to age well. And they attract neighbors who take great care of their properties.
The best opportunity to make a good first impression is the proper design and implementation of a well-thought-out plan. We leave no aspect of a community’s design to chance.
We identify and act on what customers generally can’t articulate. They don’t necessarily know what creates strong community appeal, but they feel it.
Our neighborhoods are a strategic asset and a source of pride for all of us at Fischer Homes. We look to the future as we design them, and we also look back in time. Our community philosophy has been inspired by iconic neighborhoods in every market we serve  places like Clifton and Mariemont in Cincinnati, Grant Park in Atlanta, Dayton View in Dayton, Lafayette Square in St. Louis, and Old Louisville.
We will always be committed to great neighborhoods as part of our business model. A big part of why a Fischer Home is a Fischer Home is because it sits inside a Fischer Homes community.
Operating with Rigor
The Power of Executional Discipline
Rigor is a key driver of our reputation.
There is no substitute for quality, reliable, consistent execution. Henry set the standard years ago: we need to enable and empower every person in our organization to do what is right every time. it also means doing things right the first time so we don’t have to do them over again.
We have a tightly integrated process that drives efficiency, ensures quality, improves productivity, and creates value for our customers, our partners and our business at every step of the way.
Standards drive performance and performance ensures quality. It’s as simple as that.
Standards of Performance: Top Ten Measures
This is hard work in a tough business, which is why we place so much emphasis on leadership and accountability.
Strategy sets direction, but execution is what ultimately creates value. No other factor has had more impact on the success of our company, and no other factor will have as important a role in our future success. If we want to stand out, we have to keep the bar high.
Creating Value
Delighting Customers from the Ground Up
Everything we do is designed around and in support of our ability to build superior homes in outstanding communities – on time, on budget, with exceptional quality, every time.
Constructing homes from the ground up is in Henry’s DNA and in the DNA of the company that he and Elaine built.
Our Construction Services Leaders operate with three core objectives in mind:
- Create home designs that produce the greatest value for the customer and that we can build with uncompromising quality at a reasonable cost
- Provide design options that allow customers to personalize their homes in a controlled manner
- Manage every aspect of the construction process with excellence and efficiency
We design for our customers, and then develop construction sites that will work for particular designs once they become part of our portfolio.
From design to delivery, our construction mastery is tested every day. It’s tested by how well we manage the build, by how efficiently we use our contractors’ time and expertise, and most importantly, by how our customers react when they see their finished home for the first time and when we come back after they’ve moved in to ensure the one thing that matters most to us: that their Fischer Home is their Dream Home.
Selling Value
Helping Home Buyers Make One of Their Most Important Decisions
Creating an exceptional experience for Fischer Homes customers begins with our Sales organization.
We want every customer, even those who ultimately choose another builder, to feel that they received world-class, concierge-level treatment while in the care of our team.
It’s a very high bar, and we reach for it every day.
At the heart of this “world class” customer experience is a customer-centric sales process that we call the “FUSE” Model of Selling – Fischer University of Sales Excellence.
Digital engagement has become a growing source of competitive advantage for our company.
We work hard to be wherever the customers we can best serve want to meet with us.
We want every Fischer Homes Sales Counselor to be a master of genuine conversation. The more we learn about our customers, the better positioned we are to help them.
Building trust and rapport doesn’t stop after the first five minutes. It continues throughout the sales process.
Our job is to ensure customers are informed as they consider their homebuilding decision. We know our competitors, the market, and our unique selling proposition. We empower our Sales Counselors to present our story with clarity, confidence, and transparency.
Honest, proactive communication is a critical driver of a superior customer experience. We maintain this level of communication with our customers from start to finish, strengthening their trust in us at every step of the way.
We hire people who want to win, are ready to learn, and share our passion for delivering an exceptional customer experience.
Doing the Best Work of Your Life, Every Day
Growing Top Talent and Creating Careers
“This is now your business to grow.”
every individual in the company has the potential to achieve whatever he or she wants to achieve, and the responsibility to develop the skills and experiences necessary to achieve that potential. The company’s responsibility, in turn, is to provide opportunity, training, mentoring, and one unequivocal promise: every Fischer Homes Associate will be part of an exceptional organization.
We grow talent by hiring with high standards and by thinking in decades about people’s growth, career success, and financial wellbeing.
Everyone participates in the company’s growth.
We don’t compromise on “acceptable” performance, but we do join hands to lift everyone up to exceptional performance.
We strive to be the Builder of Choice for the best talent in our industry.
When you’re doing the best work of your life, every day, and when you’re working alongside many of the best people in our business – it’s invigorating.
Expanding and Growing
Executing a Simple, Clear Strategy for Reliable Long-Term Growth
Our “expansion blueprint” begins with our growth strategy.
We are highly data driven, examining a range of factors including economic and population growth, projected mortgage interest rates and other financial dynamics, and national and regional home buying and design trends.
We look for markets that are geographically proximate to our existing divisions while meeting the essential requirement that the new market can be efficiently supported by our hub-and-spoke business model,
The third component of our blueprint is to operate as a hub-and-spoke company.
Providing strong centralized capabilities and ensuring the markets have 100% of the support they need to thrive is a winning formula.
Each market is a profit center and functions mostly autonomously.
The fourth component of our model is our land strategy.
We own about half of the land we build on and we have options with external developers to buy the other half, which mitigates our risk while still ensuring that we have sufficient land available to meet customer demand.
The fifth component of our blueprint is supply chain and resource management. We see supply chain management as an art of managing costs, channel dynamics, innovation, and process efficiencies.
Taken together, these five components have enabled us to expand strategically and with discipline into all the markets we now serve, and in markets we’re not yet serving.
We focus on the long game. We’re in business to endure.
Building Relationships
Creating Advantage as the Builder of Choice
Our business is dependent on the strongest relationships with the most valuable players in our industry: our Associates and recruits, contractors, subcontractors, bankers, regulatory and zoning partners, community stakeholders, and others.
We do four things to strengthen our reputation as “Builder of Choice”:
We put the customer first
and build relationships with colleagues and partners who share this deep commitment.
We focus on joint value creation
We care as much about our Associates’ and external partners’ success as we care about our company’s success.
We invest in relationships that will last a lifetime.
We’re looking for more than transactional connections. We want to build and grow relationships with the best companies and people in our industry – for generations to come.
We operate with an uncompromising belief in the power of honesty, integrity and transparency.
We talk straight, promise only what we can deliver, and deliver what we promise
Job sites are ready for them when they show up, the materials they need to do their work are on-site and easily accessible – even at times when materials may be scarce and difficult to obtain – and the site is clean and organized so they can do what they need to do, both safely and effectively.
We invest in the personal growth of the trade professionals we work with, whether they work for a corporate contractor or serve us as an independent small-trades professional.
Every relationship matters and is built on a foundation of respect and trust. This is what lasting relationships are built on..
Nourishing a Culture Designed for Decades
As we look toward the next four decades and beyond, we're inspired by the same vision with which Henry and Elaine created Fischer Homes in the beginning: we can stand out and stand the test of time by designing, building, and selling superior homes in prime communities at competitive yet profitable prices in every market we serve.

