Design-build custom homes for the City of Vancouver — one accountable team carrying architecture, engineering, permitting, and construction from first sketch to final walkthrough. Fixed-price and bonded, with the lot, zoning, and permit knowledge that Vancouver's tighter urban sites demand. BC Licensed Residential Builder with 25+ Georgie and HAVAN awards.
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Eurohouse Construction is a design-build custom home builder for the City of Vancouver — fixed-price, bonded, and built around Vancouver's permitting and zoning realities. Where a West Vancouver estate is usually a question of slope and acreage, a Vancouver custom home is a question of fitting an ambitious house onto a precise, regulated urban lot. We carry the whole project under one roof: architecture and interior design, structural and energy engineering, the City of Vancouver permit path, and the build itself — so the design that gets drawn is the design that can actually be approved and constructed for the price we quote. Licensed BC Residential Builder, 16+ years, 25+ Georgie and HAVAN awards, 5.0★ (34 reviews).
Building in the City of Vancouver is a different exercise than building on the North Shore. Most single-family sites sit in an RS zoning district and most duplex and small-lot sites in an RT district, and each schedule sets its own rules for floor space ratio, site coverage, building depth, setbacks, and height. Those numbers — not just your wish list — define how large a home the lot can legally carry, and they reward a builder who reads the zoning before the design rather than after. We confirm the district and run the buildable-area math at the feasibility stage, so your program is shaped by what the lot actually allows.
Vancouver lots are also tighter and more urban than West Vancouver acreage. Narrow frontages, shared property lines, mature street trees, tree-protection requirements, and limited site access all shape how a house gets sequenced and built — and they make laneway houses and infill a central part of the city's housing picture. RS and RT zoning allows a second, smaller dwelling on many lots, and adding one means managing extra siting, servicing, and parking rules on an already-compact parcel. Older Vancouver neighbourhoods add character and heritage considerations: a pre-1940 house or a designated streetscape can trigger retention incentives, character-home guidelines, or a development permit review, and those constraints are far cheaper to design around than to discover mid-permit.
All of this runs through the City of Vancouver permitting process rather than a North Shore municipal hall, with its own application portal, its own review timelines, and its own expectations for drawings and energy compliance. Our design-build process is built around that path. We prepare and carry the building permit — and any development permit a character, laneway, or rezoning situation requires — so the approval is handled by the same team that drew the house and will build it. See our work as a general contractor in Vancouver →
The honest answer is that a Vancouver custom home doesn't have one number. The cost is driven by the lot — its frontage, slope, soil, access, and how much demolition and tree work it carries — by the zoning path you take, by the finish level you choose, and above all by how completely the design is resolved before construction starts. A house priced off vague drawings is a house priced to change. We do the opposite: we define the specification first, then commit to a fixed price against it, so the budget you approve is the budget you build.
As planning ranges — not quotes — Vancouver custom homes typically fall in these bands:
| Build type | Typical range (per sq ft) |
|---|---|
| Quality custom build (good finish) | $400–$600 |
| High-end (premium finish) | $600–$850 |
| Ultra-luxury / laneway + infill complexity | $850–$1,200+ |
These are planning bands; contact us for a per-square-foot figure tied to your Vancouver lot. Once we have reviewed the site and the zoning, we will give you a realistic range tied to your specific project — and calibrate the design to that number before the drawings are finalized, not after.
A Vancouver custom home is a major, multi-year commitment, and the way it is contracted matters as much as the way it is built:
"One of my close friend gave them his custom build home and he is very happy with their performance."
"Eurohouse Built me my Dream home. I would use them again. Highly impressed."
We also build across the North Shore. If your lot is in West Vancouver, start with our West Vancouver home builder page or our West Vancouver custom home service — same team, same fixed-price standard, different lot rules.
Eurohouse Construction is a design-build custom home builder serving the City of Vancouver. We carry the full project under one accountable team — architecture and interior design, structural and energy engineering, City of Vancouver permitting, and construction — and we work on a fixed-price, bonded basis rather than open-ended cost-plus billing. We are a BC Licensed Residential Builder with 16+ years of experience, 100+ completed projects, 25+ Georgie and HAVAN awards, and a 5.0-star client rating.
The cost to build a custom home in Vancouver depends on the lot, the zoning path, the finish level, and how much of the design has been resolved before construction starts. Rather than publish a figure that may not fit your project, we provide a current per-square-foot band tied to your specific Vancouver lot once we have reviewed it. Contact Eurohouse at 604-728-5682 or info@eurohouse.ca for a current cost band, and we will calibrate the design to that number before drawings are finalized.
Yes. Our design-build process is built around City of Vancouver approvals. We confirm the zoning district early — typically RS or RT for single-family and duplex lots — read the schedule for floor space ratio, site coverage, setbacks, and height, and we prepare and carry the building permit and any required development permit application through the City of Vancouver. Where a lot carries character or heritage considerations, we plan for those constraints during design rather than discovering them after drawings are finalized.
Yes. Vancouver's RS and RT zoning allows laneway houses and infill on many single-family and duplex lots, and these are a core part of building density into the city's existing neighbourhoods. Eurohouse designs and builds laneway and infill homes as standalone projects or alongside a main-house build, managing the tighter siting, access, servicing, and parking requirements that come with adding a second dwelling to an established Vancouver lot.
Start with a conversation. We'll talk through your lot, your zoning path, a realistic budget band, and the design-build route — for qualified City of Vancouver projects.
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