Venture Pacific Construction Management is a custom home builder in Vancouver, building custom homes and completing major renovations for homeowners who want to update or rebuild rather than redevelop. Our work spans full teardown-and-rebuild custom homes, home renovations, home additions, heritage restorations, house lifts, and house moves, across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
- Project types
- Custom homes, renovations, additions
- Common lot
- 33 ft frontage
- Character homes
- Retention incentives apply
- Warranty
- 2-5-10 on new builds
What we build in Vancouver
- Custom home construction (full teardown-and-rebuild)
- Home renovations
- Home additions
- Heritage home restoration
- House lifts
- House moves
Recent work
Kitsilano Horizon is a modern-contemporary custom home built for a couple relocating from Calgary to Vancouver, a full teardown-and-rebuild that includes a fully developed basement, a self-contained legal suite, and a private theatre. The project was a 2026 Georgie Awards finalist in two categories: Best Custom Home and Best Single-Family Kitchen.
See Kitsilano HorizonIn short, Venture Pacific builds custom homes and manages major renovations, additions, and heritage restorations in Vancouver, working within the city's narrow lot geometry, character retention rules, and two-stream permit process.
Building a custom home on a Vancouver lot
Most Vancouver residential lots are narrow, often 33 feet of frontage, sometimes 25. That single number drives almost every design decision: where the stair lands, whether the garage comes off the lane, how much daylight reaches the middle of the plan. A house designed for a suburban 60 foot lot does not simply shrink onto a Vancouver one, it has to be drawn for the site.
We start with a zoning and massing review before anyone draws elevations, so you know what floor area, height, and setbacks the property actually supports. That avoids the common and expensive pattern of falling in love with a plan the lot will never approve.
- Zoning, floor space ratio, and massing review on your address
- Design coordination with your architect or ours
- Development and building permit management with the City
- Construction, trades, and 2-5-10 home warranty enrolment
Renovations and additions in character neighbourhoods
A large share of Vancouver's housing stock predates 1940, and the city actively encourages keeping those homes rather than replacing them. Character retention can unlock added floor area and infill options, but it also means the exterior form, roofline, and street-facing details are reviewed against the original.
Older houses also hide things. Knob and tube wiring, unvented roof assemblies, undersized footings, and post-war additions built without permits turn up regularly once walls open. We price and sequence for that, and we tell you what we find before we bury it.
Permits, timelines, and what actually holds a project up
Vancouver runs separate development permit and building permit streams, and which one you enter depends on whether your project conforms outright to the zoning. Conforming renovations and single-family replacements move through a faster path than anything asking for relaxations.
The delays we see most often are not city review times, they are incomplete submissions: missing survey information, energy modelling that has not been done, or structural drawings that arrive after the rest of the set. Getting the package complete on the first submission is the cheapest schedule improvement available on any Vancouver project.
Questions about building in Vancouver
Does Venture Pacific build custom homes in Vancouver?
Yes, Venture Pacific Construction Management builds full teardown-and-rebuild custom homes across Vancouver and throughout Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. We manage the whole project ourselves, from the zoning and massing review through design coordination, permits, trades, and enrolment in the mandatory 2-5-10 new home warranty, so you deal with one builder from the first site visit to the final inspection.
Do you handle home renovations and additions in Vancouver?
Yes, Venture Pacific Construction Management completes full home renovations and additions across Vancouver and throughout Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, from kitchen and bathroom remodels through second-storey and rear additions. We check the existing foundation and framing first, since what they can carry decides whether an addition or a full rebuild is the better route for the property.
Can you renovate or restore a heritage home in Vancouver?
Yes, we restore and renovate character and heritage homes across Vancouver and throughout Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, keeping the street-facing form, trim profiles, and window proportions that give the house its value while rebuilding the insulation, wiring, and mechanical systems behind them. The result reads as the original house but performs and costs to run like a new one.
Do you offer house lifting or house moving services in Vancouver?
Yes, Venture Pacific Construction Management offers both services across Vancouver and throughout Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. House lifting raises an existing home to add a basement or a new foundation level underneath it. House moving relocates a home to a new position on the same lot, or to a different property entirely, rather than demolishing and rebuilding.
What's the difference between Venture Pacific's construction and development work?
Venture Pacific Construction Management handles custom home building, renovations, additions, and heritage restorations for individual homeowners who keep their existing lot. Our separate development side designs and builds multiplex and missing-middle housing, triplexes through sixplexes, through a GP/LP partnership structure. Both sides operate across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
What does it cost to build a custom home in Vancouver?
Cost depends on the finish level, the complexity of a narrow Vancouver lot, and how much of the existing structure stays. Rather than quoting a per square foot number that will not hold, we walk the property, review your drawings, and give you a range with the assumptions written down. See our breakdown of custom home costs for how the pieces add up.
Can I renovate a character home in Vancouver without losing its character status?
Yes, and in many cases retaining the character form is the better financial outcome because of the additional floor area and infill potential it can unlock. The work has to respect the street-facing form and original detailing, which is where early conversations with the city save time.
How long does a Vancouver renovation permit take?
It varies with scope and with how complete the submission is. Straightforward interior work moves quickly through the city's review. Anything touching structure, exterior form, or zoning relaxations takes considerably longer to clear. We give you a realistic schedule at the start rather than a hopeful one.
Do you provide home warranty coverage on a new build?
Yes, new homes in BC are covered by mandatory third-party warranty insurance under the 2-5-10 tiers, meaning 2 years on labour and materials, 5 years on the building envelope, and 10 years on the structure. We are a licensed residential builder enrolled in that system on every Vancouver custom home we build.
Related services
Looking at multiplex development instead of building or renovating? See Vancouver multiplex development.
Nearby build areas
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