A fixed-price whole-home project from our Plano-based DFW team serving University Park homeowners, with designers, project leads, and tradespeople who finish on the day they said they would. Eleven years, 5,875 projects, one promise: your quote is your price.
A luxury whole-home renovation in University Park typically runs $400,000 to $1,000,000-plus, reflecting the Park Cities market and the scope of bringing an older estate fully up to date. Permits for the work are issued by the City of University Park Community Development Department, which handles building, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical permits, inspections, and contractor registration for residential projects. The biggest cost driver here is the age and construction of the housing stock: with so many homes built before 1950 around SMU, a whole-home renovation often means rebuilding behind the walls, original plaster, knob-and-tube-era wiring, dated plumbing, and additions or structural changes to open up period floor plans, all on tight, land-locked lots where access and protecting mature landscaping add complexity. Because the homes are old and the lots are valuable, scope skews toward true restoration-grade work rather than cosmetic refresh. UHS quotes these projects as one fixed price so the budget holds across a long, multi-trade renovation. For a line-item look at where the money goes, see our whole-home renovation cost guide.
In University Park, a whole-home renovation almost always means working on a home with history. This Park Cities enclave grew up around SMU in the 1910s and 1920s and incorporated in 1924, so roughly a quarter of its homes predate 1950, and the streets of Volk Estates, Caruth Hills, and SMU Heights are lined with Colonial, Tudor, and Mediterranean houses, plus pockets of 1950s Texas modernist work near SMU. Renovating one of these landlocked, premium-lot properties is a different discipline than updating a newer suburban build: original plaster, dated systems, and floor plans cut up for a different era all have to be reworked while preserving the character that makes a University Park address what it is. UHS Remodeling approaches each whole-home project here as a careful, room-by-room rebuild on a fixed price, so families can upgrade and stay in HPISD instead of leaving the neighborhood.
We handle whole-home renovations across University Park, including Volk Estates, Caruth Hills, and SMU Heights near the SMU campus and Snider Plaza.
“A University Park whole-home is half choreography, half plumbing. The hardest part isn’t any single trade — it’s sequencing 8 trades through a single timeline without anyone tripping over the next one.”
All ranges include design, materials, labor, permits, and 3-year warranty. Sourced against NARI Cost vs. Value 2025 regional benchmarks.
Your construction lead, Daniel B., manages your whole-home renovation, on schedule and to code.
We serve home renovation across nearby DFW communities. See our home renovation in Highland Park, Dallas, and Richardson.
Sourced from NARI Cost vs. Value 2025, NKBA Design Standards, EPA WaterSense, and 11 years of fielding the same calls in University Park. Looking for ballpark numbers? Try our cost calculator.
