UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

Item 1.

Security and Issuer

This Amendment No. 1 (the “Amendment”) amends and supplements the Statement on Schedule 13D, filed on February 10, 2005 (the “Original Statement”), which pertains to shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), of Comstock Homebuilding Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”).  The principal executive office of the Issuer is 11465 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 510, Reston, Virginia 20190.

Item 4.

Purpose of Transaction

Item 4 of the Original Statement is hereby amended as follows:

The Reporting Person is filing this Amendment to report that his beneficial ownership interest in the Issuer’s Class A Common Stock has decreased from 16.4% to 8.4% of the Issuer’s issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock.  On June 22, 2005, the Reporting Person sold 389,500 shares of the Class A Common Stock in a registered public offering of the Issuer (Registration Statements on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, File Nos. 333-125166 and 333-125878) at a price of $23.90 per share.

Item 5.

Interest in Securities of the Issuer

Item 5 of the Original Statement is hereby amended as follows:

(a) & (b)  The Reporting Person holds sole voting and investment power over the following shares of Class A Common Stock: (i) 616,750 shares held individually and (ii) 350,083 shares held by Clareth, LLC, a limited liability company that is wholly-owned and controlled by the Reporting Person.  The Reporting Person’s total beneficial ownership amounts to 966,833 shares of Class A Common Stock, which represents 8.4% of the outstanding shares of the Issuer’s Class A Common Stock.

(c) Other than as described in Item 4, the Reporting Person has not effected any transactions in the class of securities described herein during the past 60 days.

(d) Other than the entity described in sub-items (a) and (b) above, to the knowledge of the Reporting Person, no other person has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or proceeds from the sale of, the shares of Class A Common Stock owned by the Reporting Person.

(e) Not applicable.

Item 6.

Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer

Item 6 of the Original Statement is hereby supplemented and amended to include the following information:

Pursuant to a Lock-Up Agreement, dated June 16, 2005 (the “Lock-up Agreement”), the Reporting Person agreed to not, subject to certain exceptions, offer, sell, offer to sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise sell, loan, transfer, establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(h) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise dispose of, any securities of the Issuer that are substantially similar to the Class A Common Stock or any other capital stock of the Issuer or any securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, Class A Common Stock or any other capital stock of the Issuer or any such similar securities, or publicly announce an intention to do any of the foregoing, on or before the 90th day after June 16, 2005, without the prior written consent of Banc of America Securities LLC, a representative of the several underwriters for the Issuer’s follow-on public offering.  The Reporting Person further agreed that in the event that either (i) during the last 17 days of the 90-day lock-up period the Issuer issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Issuer occurs, or (ii) prior to the expiration of the 90-day lock-up period, the Issuer announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 90-day period, the restrictions contained in the Lock-up Agreement would continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event.  This summary of the Lock-up Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the full terms and conditions of the

Lock-up Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.

Item 7.

Material to Be Filed as Exhibits

Item 7 of the Original Statement is hereby supplemented and amended to include the following exhibit:

Exhibit 4. Lock-Up Agreement, dated June 16, 2005, executed by the Reporting Person (filed herewith).

Dated:   June 30, 2005

/s/ Gregory V. Benson

Gregory V. Benson

Exhibit
Number

Description

Exhibit 4

Lock-Up Agreement, dated June 16, 2005, executed by Gregory V. Benson (filed herewith).