Backyard homes that respect
how Loomis actually builds.

Here's the Loomis-specific catch: the Town is incorporated with its own Planning Department, but it's small, so it contracts building plan check and inspections out to Placer County. Your ADU therefore crosses two desks — the Town of Loomis handles planning, zoning, setbacks and design, while Placer County's building division checks structural, energy and life-safety. Two queues, two sets of comments. People assume "small town" means fast; it usually means the opposite if you don't know the handoff. We run it constantly, so we package the Town planning submittal and the County building set to move in parallel instead of stacking, with one person answering corrections from both. State ADU law made the building permit ministerial — a clean set gets approved rather than sent to a hearing where a neighbor argues — but ministerial isn't instant, and it never erases the Town's planning review.

The internet says $200 to $400 a foot, and for a 95650 lot that range is close to useless. In Loomis a 612 sq ft one-bedroom detached with mid-grade finishes runs about $258K to $315K all-in for 2025–2026 — a touch over the flatland tracts because of septic and well work, the long equipment haul down a gravel drive, and occasional rock in the footings; a 1,150 sq ft two-bed with the finishes owners here want lands closer to $410K to $498K, and the biggest swing after square footage is whether your leach field can take a second dwelling. The income holds up: a one-bedroom on a Loomis property rents around $2,000 to $2,500 a month and a two-bedroom pushes $2,650 to $3,200, with the Loomis Union school reputation keeping demand steady. Every prospect gets a fixed-price proposal after the free walk — a change order only lands if you upgrade a finish, never because we missed the septic, the well, or the rock.