Centerton, AR.

Centerton is one of the fastest-growing small cities in Northwest Arkansas, and most of its housing stock is new: subdivision-built homes going up faster than the region's other towns, which means the remodeling demand here skews toward customizing a builder-grade home rather than restoring an old one.

That is where additions, upgraded flooring and kitchen or bathroom customization tend to come in: a family outgrowing a starter layout a few years after moving in rather than a decades-old house reaching the end of its finishes.