Paul Saville

As head of NVR, one of America’s largest homebuilding firms with approximately 535,000 homes (and counting) and $10.3 billion in annual revenue, Paul Saville has his hands busy. Since the 2022 retirement of chairman Dwight Schar, who founded NVR in 1980, Saville has taken on an increasingly active role at the Virginia-based firm, where he has served as CEO for the last 20 years and as executive chairman for the last three years.

Today, NVR reports total assets of $5.9 billion. 

The firm has its flag planted in 36 metropolitan areas across 16 states, including heavily populated centers across Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, Georgia and Florida. Following the guidance of Schar and his initial vision of steady expansion, Saville has organized the firm across three distinct business lines, ensuring that it touches each aspect of residential real estate development and ownership. 

NVR acquired competitor Ryan Homes in 1987, and the main construction arm of NVR has built more than 500,000 homes since, particularly single-families, townhouses and garden-style condominiums. Its two other homebuilding arms — NVHomes and Heartland Homes — specialize in home construction along the Eastern Seaboard and in Pennsylvania.  

NVR also features NVR Mortgage, a mortgage servicing arm tailored to the firm’s numerous home buyers, and NVR Settlement Services, which provides settlement and title services. All told, the entire company has roughly 7,000 employees across its business lines. 

NVR reported homebuilding revenues of $4.8 billion for the first six months of 2025, and homebuilding income of $787 million. The firm reported that it invested $65.5 million in five joint venture developers that are expected to produce 7,300 residential lots, of which 95 percent will be controlled by the firm. Moreover, NVR currently owns land holding a carrying value of $39.4 million that it intends to develop into 2,350 finished lots for single-family homes.