Lexington New Homes Directory
The Lexington New Homes Directory is designed to be the most simple, easy to use real estate resource on the web, for finding new homes in Lexington for sale, new home builders, and new home communities in Lexington, Kentucky. You may search for new homes and new condos in Lexington by Price, Location, Builders, and by Master Planned Communities.
Lexington (officially Lexington-Fayette Urban County) is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 66th largest in the United States. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World," it is in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region. Lexington ranks 10th among US cities in college education rate, with 39.5% of residents having at least a Bachelor's Degree. It is home to the headquarters of Lexmark International, the Kentucky Horse Park, Keeneland Race Course, Red Mile Race Course, Transylvania University, and the University of Kentucky.
Lexington, which includes all Fayette County, consists of 285.5 square miles (739.4 km), mostly gently rolling plateau, in the inner Bluegrass Region center. The area is noted for its beauty, fertile soil, excellent pastureland, and horse and stock farms. Poa Pratensis (bluegrass) thrives on the limestone beneath the soil's surface, playing a major role in the area's scenic beauty and champion horses' development. Numerous small creeks rise and flow into the Kentucky River. The Lexington-Fayette Metro area is home to 5 counties that make up the metro area. These counties include Clark, Jessamine, Bourbon, Woodford, and Scott. Lexington is the 2nd largest metro area in the Ohio Valley and in Kentucky.
Lexington features a diverse cityscape. The city prides itself in featuring an urban growth boundary that includes green belts and strict zoning definitions from its vibrant downtown that features much-needed infill projects to its famed horse farms. This has been done to not only protect the Bluegrass landscape from further sprawling development but to ensure that tourism, one of its leading industries, is not affected.
