Mission, British Columbia — Lower Mainland
Twenty minutes north of the office, and the eastern edge of where we build regularly.
The ground in Mission.
Mission is built on a hillside running down to the Fraser, so most of its lots have a fall across them and a view worth designing around. That fall is the whole job: it decides the retaining, the driveway grade, the servicing runs, and whether the lower floor comes out of the ground as living space or stays a basement.
Larger lots than anywhere closer to the city, which is most of why people build here rather than buy. It rewards a house designed for its particular slope instead of a plan dropped onto it.
Slope and servicing are what the review turns on here, and both are cheaper to resolve on paper than on site. [CONFIRM]
Areas we work in
Mission
- 01Cedar Valley
- 02Hatzic
- 03Silverdale
- 04Ferndale
- 05Steelhead
- 06West Heights
Not an exhaustive list, and not a boundary — if your lot is in Mission and not on it, it is still Mission.
What we build here.
Custom home construction in Mission
A new house on your lot, drawn for that lot, built once and properly. Most of our work.
Duplexes and multi-family in Mission
Side-by-side duplexes and small multi-family, including the strata and servicing work that comes with them.
Legal and secondary suites in Mission
Lower floors designed from the start to hold a legal suite, a nanny suite, or both, rather than converted afterwards.
Full rebuilds and major renovation in Mission
Taking an existing house back to what is worth keeping and rebuilding the rest to current code and current expectations.
Design-build in Mission
One team from the first sketch through the occupancy permit, so the drawings and the budget stay in the same conversation.
Nothing finished in Mission yet.
We would rather say that than imply otherwise. Our finished houses are in Coquitlam and South Surrey, and they are the ones worth judging us on — the ground and the process in Mission we know from working here, not from a portfolio page. Look at the work, then ask what it would mean on your lot.
Building in Mission — the usual questions.
How much does it cost to build a custom home in BC?
There is no honest single number, and a builder who gives you one before seeing your lot is guessing. The cost of a custom home in British Columbia is driven by the site before the finishes: how far the ground has to be engineered, how much of a slope has to be retained, how long the servicing runs are, and what the municipality requires along the way. Two houses of identical size on lots ten minutes apart can differ by a great deal. We would rather look at the parcel, tell you what it is going to demand, and price the real house than quote a per-square-foot figure that changes the moment the geotechnical report lands.
How long does it take to build a custom home?
Plan for the permit to take as long as the construction. The build itself is the part with a schedule you can hold; the approvals before it are the part that varies, and in the municipalities with steep-slope or servicing review that stage can run from a few months to the better part of a year depending on the city and the parcel. The single largest thing you can do to shorten the whole programme is to start the municipal conversation before the design is finalised rather than after.
Can you build a house with a legal suite?
Yes, and it is worth designing in from the beginning rather than adding later. A lower floor planned from the start around a legal suite — separate entry, separate services, the ceiling heights and egress the code wants — costs a fraction of one converted afterwards, and it is most of the reason our recent houses carry two self-contained suites rather than a basement. Several of the municipalities we build in now treat it as the normal shape of a family house.
How do I start a custom home project?
Start with the lot and one conversation. Send us the address and whatever you have — a survey, a sketch, a list of what the house has to do. What comes back is a plain reading of what that parcel is going to demand before any design is committed to, which is the most useful hour in the whole project. Call 604-300-3107 or use the enquiry form and it reaches Tanvir Bhangal directly.
Thinking about building in Mission?
Send the address of the lot. What comes back is a plain reading of what that parcel is going to demand, before anything is drawn.