And Our Relationships!

Reputation. Integrity. Fairness.

Watt Communities is managed by a talented team of professionals with a passion for building new home neighborhoods from entry-level to high-end luxury homes. For more than 60 years, the Watt Communities team has developed planned residential neighborhoods throughout the Western United States — with a focus on all regions of California.

A division of Watt Companies, Watt Communities is highly regarded in the home building industry as a premium quality builder. Watt is widely recognized by industry leaders, financial institutions, and the brokerage community for its expertise in community entitlements, land acquisition and development, home building operations, and financial management.

Our core values have not changed in more than half a century, and Ray Watt's devotion to integrity, responsibility and fairness continue to serve our company and our home buyers as well.  

Watt Communities, builder of the year in 2010, continues to build its reputation and relationships, along with California's finest new homes.

The Ray Watt Legacy

Ray Watt entered the real estate business after the World War II, when GIs returned from overseas to find a housing shortage. Ray and his brother, Don, built a mobile home park in 1946. Working with a small crew and a battered pickup truck, they called their company Night and Day Construction to match the schedule they were keeping to meet demand.

He continued to build for more than six decades, though he took time out during President Nixon's first term to serve as assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He returned to the private sector in the early 1970s. Ray Watt built more than 100,000 single-family homes, mostly in the San Fernando Valley and South Bay and on the Westside, but was also keen to develop other types of property, including industrial centers, when there was a market for them.

Among his best-known projects were Watt Plaza, a two-tower office complex in Century City, and Fairbanks Ranch, a luxury housing development in Rancho Santa Fe. "Ray was the quintessential capitalist," said his longtime accountant and friend Kenneth Leventhal. "He was a risk taker and an innovator."

Ray has been designated one of Builder Magazine's 100 foremost builders of the 20th Century, and has also been inducted into the National Association of Home Builders Hall of Fame. Ray Watt's legacy of serving the needs of each homeowner continues to drive Watt Communities today.

(Portions excerpted from L.A. Times)