Approved and under construction in West Dundee, Kane County

Fox Haven

One hundred and eighty-three new Lennar homes approved at the southeast corner of Randall Road and Route 72, where the earth is already moving.

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For as long as anyone driving Randall Road can remember, the southeast corner at Route 72 has been a farm. In the spring of 2026 West Dundee annexed it, rezoned it and approved a full development plan for it, and by midsummer the dirt was turning. What is coming is a neighborhood of 183 homes on about 72 acres: 89 detached single-family houses and 94 attached duplex ranches in 47 buildings, with a small commercial parcel held back at the corner itself.

Nothing has been released to the public yet. There are no floor plans, no published pricing, no model to walk and no sales office to call. This page exists to put everything the public record does establish in one place, and to let you get on the list for the moment the rest of it lands.

Area: West Dundee, Kane County
Builder: Lennar

Fox Haven fast facts

What the approval record establishes, and what has not been released. Where a line below says a thing is not yet released, that is the current state of the record rather than a gap in this page.

Where: Southeast corner of Randall Road and Illinois Route 72, West Dundee, Kane County. See Randall Road and Illinois Route 72, West Dundee, IL on the map
Builder: Lennar, named as the builder in the Village approvals
Homes: 183 for-sale homes: 89 detached single-family, plus 94 attached duplex ranch units in 47 buildings
Site size: About 72 acres of residential, plus a separate three-acre commercial parcel at the corner
Status: Final development plan and final plat approved in March 2026; groundbreaking reported July 2026, earthwork underway
Street network: Lacana Drive, Lacana Court, Windsong Drive, Appledale Drive, Jelkes Creek Circle and John Farell Court, with entrances off Randall Road and Route 72
Unusual features: An internal pedestrian bridge over Jelkes Creek, five stormwater basins, a park, and an 1850s stone cottage to be rehabilitated at the corner
Schools: Community Unit School District 300. The specific assigned schools for this parcel are not yet published. Get notified
Pricing: Not yet released. Get notified
Floor plans and square footage: Not yet released. Get notified
Model home and sales opening: Not yet released, though the model homesites are already chosen. Get notified
HOA dues: Not yet set. An association is required and will maintain the basins and the park
Flood mapping: Not determined for this page. Jelkes Creek crosses the site; check the FEMA Flood Map Service Center for the parcel

Details on this page are compiled from public entitlement records and are targets, not commitments. Pricing, floor plans, home counts, and timing have not been released by the builder and are subject to change without notice.

Subdiview is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Lennar. Lennar and its community names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here for identification only. All community information is compiled from public records and is subject to change.

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About Fox Haven

Fox Haven is two neighborhoods sharing one street network. The larger half by land is 89 detached single-family homes. The other half is 94 attached duplex ranches, built as 47 two-unit buildings. The village approved a smaller minimum lot size for the duplex side, with each lot carrying both units of a building and a twenty-foot gap between buildings, which is how you get a ranch-style attached product onto a site like this without it feeling like a wall of rooftops.

That duplex component is worth paying attention to if you are reading this as a local. Single-level attached homes in this township have historically come up for resale rarely and sold quickly, because the buyer pool is wide: people selling a two-story house in Carpentersville or Sleepy Hollow who want to stop climbing stairs, people coming in from farther east who want a yard they do not have to mow, and first-time buyers who get priced out of detached. Nothing about Fox Haven's duplex pricing is known yet, but the product itself is the kind that does not sit.

The detached side is new ground for this builder in this village. Lennar already has two West Dundee communities and both of them are townhomes, so Fox Haven would be its first detached single-family neighborhood here. That matters mostly because it means the local comparison set for detached product is other builders, not this one.

The approval also kept three acres at the corner itself out of the residential plan, zoned for commercial use. Sitting on it is a stone cottage dating to roughly 1850, reported to be the last of its kind in Dundee Township, which the plan calls for rehabilitating rather than removing. The state historic preservation office is among the agencies with review jurisdiction here, which is not something you see on a typical subdivision approval. What ends up around the cottage has not been decided, and that is a genuine open question for anyone buying on the west edge of the neighborhood.

Until very recently this was simply a working farm, held by the family whose name is on the older records for the parcel, and the annexation agreement expressly allowed farming to continue right up until development began. That is why the site read as open field for so long after the first approvals landed. The land came into the village in two steps in the first quarter of 2026, moving from unincorporated estate-residential zoning into the village's single-family, low-density multi-family and business categories at once, with a special use on top of it allowing the whole thing to be governed as one planned development rather than lot by lot.

A few of the construction standards are already fixed and worth knowing because they affect how the neighborhood will feel to walk. The streets were approved slightly narrower than the village's default, both in right of way and in pavement width, which is a deliberate traffic-calming choice and also means on-street parking will be tighter than in a 1990s subdivision. Rear yards on the detached side were approved a little shallower than standard. Every home will be sprinklered, which West Dundee requires of new residential construction, and that is a real cost the builder has to carry and a real safety feature you get. The village also locked its permit fees and building codes for this project for five years, which mostly matters to the builder but does reduce the odds of a mid-build code change rippling into your closing date.

The other thing the plan commits the builder to is a pedestrian bridge. Jelkes Creek cuts through the property, and rather than let the creek split the community in two, the approval requires a footbridge connecting the northeast duplex pod to the southwestern part of the site. Alongside it sit five stormwater detention basins and a park, all of which the homeowners association will own and maintain.

Location and what it is like around here

Fox Haven fronts Randall Road, which is the main north-south commercial spine of the Fox Valley. That is the single biggest practical fact about living here. Groceries, big-box retail, restaurants, the movie theater, the hospital campuses and the office parks are all strung along Randall between Algonquin and Elgin, and this site sits on it rather than a drive away from it. The village specifically zoned the corner parcel commercial because of that frontage.

Route 72, also called Higgins Road, runs east from the corner toward Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg and west toward Gilberts and Hampshire. Taken together with Randall, the site has two arterials at its doorstep, and the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway is reached from Randall to the south or Route 72 to the east. Metra riders in this area generally drive to a station rather than walk to one. We have not measured drive times for this page and we are not going to publish numbers we did not verify, so if commute minutes are the deciding factor, drive it yourself at the hour you would actually be driving it.

The immediate surroundings are established residential rather than open farmland, which is unusual for a subdivision of this size and is a real advantage. Carrington Reserve, built in the early 2000s, sits directly northeast, and the village describes Fox Haven as a visual extension of it. Fox Haven will even tie its sanitary sewer into Carrington Reserve's existing system. In practice that means mature trees across the street rather than a decade of construction fence, and it means the surrounding resale stock gives you a real read on the area before Fox Haven prices a single home.

The Dundees themselves are the quieter attraction. East and West Dundee face each other across the Fox River a couple of miles east of this corner, with a genuine walkable downtown on each bank, a riverwalk, and the Fox River Trail running north to Algonquin and south to Elgin and St. Charles. Raceway Woods and the Fox River forest preserves are close. For a site whose headline feature is a retail corridor, there is more actual landscape nearby than you would expect.

It is worth being honest about the trade-off of a Randall Road address, because it cuts both ways. The convenience is real and so is the traffic. Randall carries a lot of volume through the day and the intersection at Route 72 is one of the busier ones on it. Lots backing or siding onto the arterial will hear it, and the approved plan puts landscape buffering along the frontage for exactly that reason. If road noise matters to you, the interior streets and the pods set back toward the creek are a different proposition from the frontage lots, and that is a question to ask about a specific homesite rather than about the community as a whole.

On schools, the broader context is that District 300 is a large unit district covering Carpentersville, West and East Dundee, Sleepy Hollow, Algonquin, Lake in the Hills, Gilberts and Hampshire, so it spans a wide mix of housing and a wide mix of schools. That is part of why the specific assignment for this parcel matters so much and why guessing at it would be irresponsible. It is also why a boundary review is a live possibility: adding 183 homes in one place is the kind of thing that moves lines.

Service districts for this parcel are Dundee Township, the Fox River Valley Public Library District and the Rutland-Dundee Fire Protection District.

Market context before Fox Haven prices anything

No Fox Haven price exists. What follows is the honest surrounding context, with its date, so you have a frame rather than a guess.

Lennar's two existing West Dundee communities are both townhome neighborhoods and both were starting in the high 300s as of November 2026. They are useful for understanding how this builder operates in this village, and not useful as a price guide for Fox Haven, because neither is the same product.

The closer product comparisons sit a little farther out. Lennar's duplex product in Woodstock was starting in the low 300s as of November 2026, and its detached single-family product in the same community in the high 400s. Its detached product in Algonquin was starting around the low 600s on the same date. Woodstock is a different market with a different school district and a different tax picture, and Algonquin is generally a stronger one than West Dundee, so read those as the outer edges of a range rather than as predictions. Every figure here carries its November 2026 date because new construction base prices move month to month.

Fox Haven is also not the only thing being built in West Dundee right now. Tartans Creek, a Pulte community of 84 detached homes, began site work in July 2026 at the northeast corner of Route 72 and Sleepy Hollow Road, having been scaled down substantially from an earlier larger approval. If you are shopping detached new construction in this village in the next couple of years, those are the two sites, and they are about two miles apart.

One local tax note, because it gets repeated wrongly. Do not take a village-wide average property tax rate and apply it to a new home here. Those averages reflect older housing stock, often in other school districts, and they understate what a newly built home in a new subdivision actually pays. Ask for an estimate built from this parcel's own taxing bodies and the home's assessed value, in writing, and ask separately about the dormant backup special service area (see the FAQ below), which is a stormwater backstop and not a tax increment financing district.

What is still unknown, and what would settle it

A page about a community this early is only useful if it is straight about its own gaps. Here is what is genuinely not known, and in each case what would resolve it, so you can judge for yourself how close this is.

Price is the big one, and it is unknown in the most literal sense: the builder's own approved community signage carries the starting price as a placeholder rather than a number. That resolves the moment the sign copy is finalized and the first price sheet is issued, which normally happens within weeks of a model opening.

Floor plans, square footages and bed and bath counts are not public. Plan exhibits for the duplex product were part of the approval package but they exist as drawings rather than published plan names, so there is nothing honest to list yet. These usually arrive as a set, all at once, when the community page goes live.

The model home and sales opening date are not announced. The builder has, however, already picked the exact homesites the single-family and duplex models will sit on, and negotiated the right to build and staff those models early, before water and sewer are in, running them on temporary power if necessary. That is not the behavior of a project planning to wait. A VIP-list sign was designed for a summer 2026 launch and that date came and went, so the lesson is to treat any timing as a target.

School assignment is not published for this parcel, and the proxy above is a neighboring subdivision rather than an answer. District 300's own boundary lookup settles it once addresses exist.

Flood mapping was not determined for this page. The FEMA Flood Map Service Center settles it for the parcel now and for a specific address later.

HOA dues, whether the duplex ranches are offered with basements, the phasing order, which pod releases first, and what is eventually built on the commercial corner are all open. Dues and basements come with the price sheet. Phasing shows up in the first release. The corner may take years and is worth asking about if you are buying near it.

One thing is settled that often is not at this stage: the homes here are for sale to individual buyers, not a rental community. The approval describes them as for-sale throughout, requires covenants to be recorded before the first home sells, and sets its fees per home.

Buying new construction with Joe Keegan of Brokerocity

I'm Joe Keegan, a licensed Illinois real estate broker with Brokerocity, and I live and work in this part of McHenry and Kane County. Fox Haven is in my home market, which means I can represent you here myself rather than hand you off to anyone.

Here is the part most people buying new construction do not know until it is too late. The person at the builder's sales desk is paid by the builder and represents the builder. You can have your own broker instead. On new construction the builder usually pays the buyer's broker, and we confirm that in writing before you sign anything. The only real catch is timing: you generally need to be registered as represented at your very first visit to the model or the sales trailer. Walk in alone, sign in alone, and the builder may decline to recognize your broker at all afterward. With Fox Haven that first visit has not happened yet for anybody, which is the easiest possible time to get this right.

What I actually do on a build like this: read the purchase agreement and every addendum before you sign, including the escalation and delay language that buyers skim; press on incentives, design center credits and closing cost contributions rather than taking the first sheet; keep a list of what was promised verbally and get it into writing; attend the pre-drywall and final walkthroughs with you and push the punch list; and tell you plainly when a lot or a plan is not worth what is being asked. I also do not need you to use a particular lender, and I will tell you where the builder's lender incentive is genuinely worth taking and where it is not.

If you want to talk it through before anything is released, call or text me at 224-385-8779. If you would rather just be kept informed, the interest list below is the lower-effort option and I will not chase you.

Joe Keegan is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois. Joining the interest list does not create a brokerage relationship or any agency agreement.

How Fox Haven compares nearby

Community	Builder	What it is	Status, November 2026
Fox Haven, West Dundee	Lennar	89 detached homes and 94 duplex ranches on about 72 acres	Approved, earthwork underway, nothing released
Tartans Creek, West Dundee	Pulte	84 detached homes on about 34 acres	Site work began July 2026
Harvest View, West Dundee	Lennar	92 three-story rear-loaded townhomes	Selling, roughly three quarters built out
Hickory Glen, West Dundee	Lennar	111 two-story front-loaded townhomes	Selling, roughly two thirds built out
Carrington Reserve, West Dundee	Pulte, early 2000s	Established detached neighborhood adjoining Fox Haven	Resale only

The short version: if you want detached new construction in West Dundee, Fox Haven and Tartans Creek are the two options and both are at dirt stage. If you want a single-level attached home, Fox Haven is the only one of these offering it. If you need to move this year, the two townhome communities are the ones actually selling, and Carrington Reserve is where to look on resale.

Fox Haven questions

What is Fox Haven?

Fox Haven is a new Lennar community approved for 183 for-sale homes on about 72 acres at the southeast corner of Randall Road and Illinois Route 72 in West Dundee, Kane County. The approval splits it into 89 detached single-family homes and 94 attached duplex ranch units arranged in 47 buildings. West Dundee approved the final development plan and the final plat in March 2026, and the Village reported a formal groundbreaking in July 2026 with earthwork underway. No pricing, no floor plans, no model home and no sales office have been released.

Who is the builder?

Lennar. The petitioner named in West Dundee's approvals is CalAtlantic Group, LLC, which is a Lennar company, and the Village's own development page names Lennar as the builder. Subdiview is not affiliated with Lennar.

How much will homes at Fox Haven cost?

No price has been published, and the builder's own approved community signage was drawn up before any number existed, which is a fair summary of where things stand. For context rather than prediction: Lennar's two existing West Dundee communities are both townhomes, starting in the high 300s as of November 2026, and the closest product matches elsewhere in the sub-market are Lennar's duplex and single-family products in Woodstock, which start in the low 300s and the high 400s respectively as of the same date. Fox Haven is a different community in a different village and nothing above is a quote. Join the interest list and you will hear when real numbers exist.

When will Fox Haven open for sale?

No sales date has been announced. What is on the record is a clear sequence: entitlements in January 2026, final plan and plat in March 2026, groundbreaking in July 2026, and earthwork with underground utilities to follow as of the Village's August 2026 status. The builder has also already chosen the specific homesites its model homes will sit on and has an approved sign package waiting. A VIP-list sign reading Coming Summer 2026 was designed and that date passed, so treat any timing you read anywhere as a target rather than a commitment.

What are the homes like?

Two products. The detached side is 89 single-family homes. The duplex side is 94 attached ranch units in 47 buildings, and ranch means single level, which tends to draw downsizers and buyers who do not want stairs. Floor plan names, square footages and bed and bath counts have not been released. The Village's own fee schedule is built around three and four bedroom detached homes and two and three bedroom duplexes, which tells you the range the builder planned for even though the plans themselves are not public yet. Homes will be sprinklered, which West Dundee requires.

What schools would Fox Haven be in?

The site sits inside Community Unit School District 300, but the specific assigned elementary, middle and high school for this parcel are not published in the approval record. The adjacent Carrington Reserve neighborhood is served by Sleepy Hollow Elementary, Dundee Middle School and Dundee-Crown High School, all District 300, and that is the best available guide. Treat it as a neighboring-subdivision guide and not as an assignment: a brand new 183-home subdivision is exactly the kind of thing that prompts a district to redraw attendance areas. Confirm the address with District 300's own boundary lookup once addresses are assigned.

Is there anything unusual about this site?

Two things, and both are genuinely unusual. Jelkes Creek runs through the property, and the approval requires the builder to construct a pedestrian bridge over it linking the northeast duplex pod to the southwest part of the neighborhood, so this is a community with an internal footbridge rather than a flat grid. And the three-acre commercial corner at Randall and Route 72 holds a stone cottage dating to around 1850, reported to be the last of its kind in Dundee Township, which the plan calls for rehabilitating. The state historic preservation office is among the agencies with review jurisdiction, which is not true of other residential approvals in the village.

Is Fox Haven in a flood zone?

No flood determination for this site was obtained for this page, and we are not going to guess at one. Jelkes Creek crosses the property, so it is a fair question to ask, and the approved plan includes five stormwater detention basins. Check the parcel yourself in the FEMA Flood Map Service Center, and when addresses are assigned check the specific address rather than the overall parcel, because a creek corridor and the lots set back from it can be mapped differently.

Will there be an HOA, and what about a special service area?

Yes to the HOA. The approval requires one, requires the covenants to be recorded before the first home sells, and makes the association responsible for the five detention basins and the park. Dues have not been set. The developer also consented to a dormant backup special service area, which is a standard stormwater backstop in this part of Illinois and normally levies nothing at all. It exists so the village has a way to maintain the basins if the association ever fails to, and it is a different instrument from a tax increment financing district. Ask about both in writing before you sign anything.

Should I use my own agent when buying new construction?

Yes, and the timing matters more than most buyers expect. The person sitting at the builder's sales desk works for the builder. You can have your own broker instead, touring with you, reading the contract and the addenda line by line, and pushing on incentives, upgrades and closing cost credits. The catch is that you usually have to be registered as represented at your very first visit to the model or the sales trailer, because after that the builder may not recognize your broker at all. Get that sorted before Fox Haven opens, not after.

Is this the same Fox Haven near Yorkville?

No, and it is worth being clear about because the other one ranks well. Ryan Homes sells a community called Fox Haven in Yorkville, in Kendall County, roughly forty miles south of here. This page is about the Lennar community in West Dundee, Kane County, at Randall Road and Route 72. Lennar also sells a Foxhaven in Virginia that has nothing to do with either.

How do I get updates on Fox Haven?

Join the interest list on this page. When pricing, floor plans, a model opening or the first homes are released, the people on the list hear first.

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Pricing, floor plans, the model opening and the first available homes all land at some point over the next stretch. The list hears first, and I will tell you what I think of the numbers when they show up rather than just forwarding them.

Joe Keegan is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois. Joining the interest list does not create a brokerage relationship or any agency agreement.