Housing developments usually involve enormous amounts of money, time, material resources, and labor, as well as potential for huge profits or losses. Among all factors that affect the success of housing developments in Taiwan, project site selection matters most. This paper proposes a model for project site selection based on evaluation of alternatives using the two dimensions of a project: surroundings conditions and project conditions, and comprising six criteria: site environment, degree of public facility, transportation convenience, usable floor area, saleable unit price, and land acquisition cost. For a given selection scenario, the utility theory is used to evaluate the alternatives on each criterion according to the decision makers' preferences, while the analytic hierarchy process is used to obtain the weights of the criteria. Then, the alternative with the highest total utility value is recommended for selection. A case study relating to an investor's selection of the optimal project site from three alternatives for building row houses is presented for illustration of the proposed model. It is hoped that the evaluation model can be applied as an aid in decision making for housing developments.