# Ambrose Homes Inc

**Trade:** General Contractor / Remodeling · **Address:** 2766 State Hwy Rte 6, Wellfleet, MA 02667, United States · **Phone:** (508) 349-8252 · **Website:** http://ambrosehomes.com/ · **Languages:** English

**Rating: 3.2/5** (medium confidence) — from 3 reviews across 5 sources. A 0–5 star rating built from what customers and the public say (every review and mention weighted by where it was posted, how old, how detailed and how credible it is, shrunk toward a 3.5★ baseline when evidence is thin) plus what the record shows (Reddit recommendations or warnings, a registry-verified licence, how recently they were reviewed, customer work photos, BBB grade, negative news, a revoked licence). Positive record counts only as far as the reviews have earned it; penalties count in full. Confidence describes how much weighted evidence stands behind the number, never the number itself: low when fewer than about five normal reviews' worth of weight (or mentions only) support it, medium up to about twenty, high beyond that across at least two sources. An operator flag for a suspicious review pattern caps a rating at 3.5★ and marks it low.

## The honest read

Ambrose Homes is a Wellfleet builder with an unusual specialty for a residential contractor: it lifts and moves entire houses. Local news reporting describes the firm running the lift of a Provincetown property on Commercial Street in 2025, and says it owns unified jacking systems capable of lifting one million pounds — work it does to save Cape houses from erosion.

By its own account the company is family-owned, has been at it for over forty years, performs about 70% of project work in-house, and has designed, built and lifted more than a million square feet of custom residential and commercial buildings. Alongside house lifting it lists helical piers, shoring, specialty foundations and marine and seawall work, and its stated service area is Wellfleet and Brewster. Its Massachusetts home improvement registration, HIC 157609, is registry-verified active.

The firm shows up in Cape word of mouth for exactly this niche. On r/CapeCod in September 2025 one commenter told a homeowner that Ambrose Homes does all those things and lifts houses as well, another seconded the recommendation, and the original poster came back to say Ambrose was coming out to talk it through. It has also been named as builder on an architect-designed project in New England Home magazine and, in June 2026, as the firm that would do the work on a Provincetown project.

The direct customer record is small — eight Google ratings averaging four stars, with three written reviews. The most detailed, from 2023, describes Ezra Ambrose moving the reviewer's home and adding an addition during the pandemic and delivering on budget, with a realistic timeframe and an honest, never-rude manner. Another calls the crews knowledgeable and experienced.

Against that sits a 2022 one-star review from someone who spent a month trying to reach the company and found the person who eventually answered rude and unprofessional, and moved on to another contractor. With a record this thin, that single account carries weight: it is a third of the written reviews on file.

Worth doing before you commit: ask for references on a lift or foundation job of your own size and vintage, confirm who your day-to-day contact will be, and get the timeline and what happens if it slips in writing. BuildZoom's permit record shows a typical permit value around $175,000 across seven projects in three years, which is a useful gauge of the scale it usually works at.

**Strengths:**
- House lifting — owns jacking systems rated to one million pounds
- Erosion rescue — news reports credit it with saving coastal Cape homes
- Reddit-recommended — Cape commenters name it for lifts and foundations
- Registry-verified licence — MA HIC 157609 active
- On budget — a 2023 customer's move-plus-addition landed on budget

**Concerns:**
- Hard to reach — a reviewer spent a month trying to make contact
- Rude reception reported — one reviewer left over how they were treated
- Thin review record — only three written reviews across eight ratings

**Where sources disagree:**
- The word-of-mouth and news record is markedly stronger than the direct customer record: local reporting and Reddit both point to the firm for house lifting, while only three written customer reviews exist and one of them is a one-star account of a month of unanswered calls.
- BuildZoom names Frederic Ambrose as the licence holder while news reports and the detailed 2023 review name Ezra Ambrose as the person running the lifts — consistent with a family firm, but the directory's licence claim carries no number and is not the registry-verified record.

## Claims & citations

Every claim below is backed by real evidence rows — uncited claims are dropped in code before publication.

- The company holds Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration 157609, registry-verified active. _(confidence: high)_
  - [State License Registry](https://contractorhub.mass.gov/s/hic-contractor-search) — “MA hic license 157609 registry-verified active — registry holder of record: AMBROSE HOMES, INC.”
- Local news reporting describes the firm lifting and moving houses to save them from coastal erosion, using unified jacking systems it owns that can lift one million pounds. _(confidence: high)_
  - [capecodtimes.com](https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2025/02/26/flood-zone-provincetown-ma-houses-raised-lifted-elevated-climate-change/77596089007/) — “capecodtimes.com — Wellfleet-based Ambrose Homes is the main contractor on that project. The company lifts and moves homes to save them from…”
  - [capecodtimes.com](https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2025/03/17/provincetown-ma-house-lifting-cost-how-does-it-work-flood/82234673007/) — “capecodtimes.com — said Ezra Ambrose of Wellfleet-based Ambrose Homes, which is doing the lift at 453 Commercial St.”
- A 2016 news report describes the firm driving pilings fifty feet into the ground and stabilising a house on them rather than on a new concrete foundation, with Ezra Ambrose leading the move. _(confidence: high)_
  - [capecodtimes.com](https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/environment/2016/02/20/wellfleet-house-move-latest-effort/32499655007/) — “capecodtimes.com — Pilings will be driven 50 feet into the ground, and the house will be stabilized on the pilings rather than on a new conc…”
- The company describes itself as a family-owned Cape Cod design-build firm that performs about 70% of project work in-house. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “Ownership (self-reported): Family-owned, performing 70% of project work in-house”
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “Stated ownership (self-reported): Family-owned”
- It states it has been in business over forty years and has designed, built and lifted over one million square feet of custom residential and commercial buildings. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “Company history (self-reported): Family-owned Cape Cod construction business; the site states that for over forty years it has designed, bui…”
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “Self-reported 40 years in business”
- Its own site lists custom home building alongside house lifting, helical piers, shoring, specialty foundations and marine and seawall work. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “A family-owned Cape Cod design-build construction company based in Wellfleet that builds custom homes and specializes in house lifting, heli…”
- On Reddit in September 2025 a commenter told a Cape homeowner that Ambrose Homes does all those things and lifts houses as well, and another commenter seconded the recommendation. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/CapeCod/comments/1no5yqz/1700s_eastham_house_renovations/nfph4u0/) — “r/CapeCod — Ambrose homes does all those things, they lift houses as well”
  - [reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/CapeCod/comments/1no5yqz/1700s_eastham_house_renovations/nfpkqrs/) — “r/CapeCod — Seconding Ambrose”
- A 2023 reviewer describes Ezra Ambrose moving their home and adding an addition during the pandemic, delivering on budget with a realistic timeframe and an honest manner. _(confidence: high)_
  - [Google Reviews](https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sChdDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURCcDl1SXZBRRAB!2m1!1s0x0:0x5d5d8dfa264dd1e0!3m1!1s2@1:CIHM0ogKEICAgIDBp9uIvAE%7C%7C?hl=en) — “5★ I used Abrose Homes (Ezra Ambrose) to move my home and put on an addition during the pandemic.  This was a stressful undertaking.
Ambrose…”
- A 2024 reviewer described the crews as very knowledgeable and experienced. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Google Reviews](https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSUNyMXBydFV3EAE!2m1!1s0x0:0x5d5d8dfa264dd1e0!3m1!1s2@1:CIHM0ogKEICAgICr1prtUw%7C%7C?hl=en) — “5★ Very knowledgeable and experienced crews!”
- A 2022 one-star reviewer said they spent a month trying to reach the company and found the person who finally answered rude and unprofessional, and hired someone else. _(confidence: high)_
  - [Google Reviews](https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURPdnB1ZUtREAE!2m1!1s0x0:0x5d5d8dfa264dd1e0!3m1!1s2@1:CIHM0ogKEICAgIDOvpueKQ%7C%7C?hl=en) — “1★ Incredibly rude and shortsighted approach to business. Tried reaching them for 1 month- when I finally got through to the contractor she …”
- A June 2026 local news report named Ambrose Homes as the Wellfleet construction firm that would do the work on a Provincetown project. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Local News](https://provincetownindependent.org/local-journalism-project/2026/06/03/demolition-begins-for-two-homes-on-a-retreating-bluff/) — “provincetownindependent.org — The work would be done by Ambrose Homes, a Wellfleet construction firm.”
- New England Home magazine named the firm as builder on an architect-designed project in 2025. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [nehomemag.com](https://nehomemag.com/a-coastal-retreat-with-modernist-roots/) — “nehomemag.com — Project Team Architecture and interior design: Walker Architects Builder: Ambrose Homes”
- BuildZoom's permit-derived profile shows at least seven projects in three years at a typical permit value of about $175,000, and 18 projects overall; it publishes no customer reviews or star average. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [BuildZoom](https://www.buildzoom.com/contractor/ambrose-homes-inc) — “18 project(s) shown on BuildZoom”
  - [BuildZoom](https://www.buildzoom.com/contractor/ambrose-homes-inc) — “BuildZoom profile for Ambrose Homes, Inc (PO Box 1405, Wellfleet MA, phone 508-349-8252) showing permit-derived activity only: it publishes …”
- BuildZoom asserts a Massachusetts home improvement contractor licence owned by Frederic Ambrose but prints no licence number, so that listing is a directory claim rather than a verified record. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [BuildZoom](https://www.buildzoom.com/contractor/ambrose-homes-inc) — “BuildZoom profile for Ambrose Homes, Inc (PO Box 1405, Wellfleet MA, phone 508-349-8252) showing permit-derived activity only: it publishes …”
- The rating rests on a thin direct record — a 4-star Google average from 8 ratings with three written reviews — supported by news coverage and Reddit recommendations for its house-lifting work. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Google](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Ambrose%20Homes%20Inc&query_place_id=ChIJ1yLmhzRn-4kR4NFNJvqNXV0) — “Google: 4★ from 8 ratings”
  - [Google Reviews](https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sChdDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURCcDl1SXZBRRAB!2m1!1s0x0:0x5d5d8dfa264dd1e0!3m1!1s2@1:CIHM0ogKEICAgIDBp9uIvAE%7C%7C?hl=en) — “5★ I used Abrose Homes (Ezra Ambrose) to move my home and put on an addition during the pandemic.  This was a stressful undertaking.
Ambrose…”
  - [Google Reviews](https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURPdnB1ZUtREAE!2m1!1s0x0:0x5d5d8dfa264dd1e0!3m1!1s2@1:CIHM0ogKEICAgIDOvpueKQ%7C%7C?hl=en) — “1★ Incredibly rude and shortsighted approach to business. Tried reaching them for 1 month- when I finally got through to the contractor she …”
- Specializes in General Contractor / Remodeling _(confidence: high)_
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “A family-owned Cape Cod design-build construction company based in Wellfleet that builds custom homes and specializes in house lifting, heli…”
  - [State License Registry](https://contractorhub.mass.gov/s/hic-contractor-search) — “MA hic license 157609 registry-verified active — registry holder of record: AMBROSE HOMES, INC.”
  - [Local News](https://provincetownindependent.org/local-journalism-project/2026/06/03/demolition-begins-for-two-homes-on-a-retreating-bluff/) — “provincetownindependent.org — The work would be done by Ambrose Homes, a Wellfleet construction firm.”
- Specializes in Demolition & Excavation _(confidence: high)_
  - [capecodtimes.com](https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/environment/2016/02/20/wellfleet-house-move-latest-effort/32499655007/) — “capecodtimes.com — Pilings will be driven 50 feet into the ground, and the house will be stabilized on the pilings rather than on a new conc…”
  - [capecodtimes.com](https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2025/02/26/flood-zone-provincetown-ma-houses-raised-lifted-elevated-climate-change/77596089007/) — “capecodtimes.com — Wellfleet-based Ambrose Homes is the main contractor on that project. The company lifts and moves homes to save them from…”
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “A family-owned Cape Cod design-build construction company based in Wellfleet that builds custom homes and specializes in house lifting, heli…”
- Also offers Waterproofing / Foundation _(confidence: medium)_
  - [capecodtimes.com](https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/environment/2016/02/20/wellfleet-house-move-latest-effort/32499655007/) — “capecodtimes.com — Pilings will be driven 50 feet into the ground, and the house will be stabilized on the pilings rather than on a new conc…”
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “A family-owned Cape Cod design-build construction company based in Wellfleet that builds custom homes and specializes in house lifting, heli…”
- Also offers Specialty Services _(confidence: medium)_
  - [capecodtimes.com](https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2025/02/26/flood-zone-provincetown-ma-houses-raised-lifted-elevated-climate-change/77596089007/) — “capecodtimes.com — Wellfleet-based Ambrose Homes is the main contractor on that project. The company lifts and moves homes to save them from…”
  - [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com) — “A family-owned Cape Cod design-build construction company based in Wellfleet that builds custom homes and specializes in house lifting, heli…”
- Also offers Carpentry _(confidence: low)_
  - [nehomemag.com](https://nehomemag.com/a-coastal-retreat-with-modernist-roots/) — “nehomemag.com — Project Team Architecture and interior design: Walker Architects Builder: Ambrose Homes”
  - [Google Reviews](https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7!1m6!2m5!1sChdDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURCcDl1SXZBRRAB!2m1!1s0x0:0x5d5d8dfa264dd1e0!3m1!1s2@1:CIHM0ogKEICAgIDBp9uIvAE%7C%7C?hl=en) — “5★ I used Abrose Homes (Ezra Ambrose) to move my home and put on an addition during the pandemic.  This was a stressful undertaking.
Ambrose…”

## Ownership

- Identifies as family-owned — the business's own statement, not independently verified.

## License

Status: **active** (#157609, hic) — verified against the official MA state registry on 2026-08-20, never self-reported.
Re-check at the official registry: https://contractorhub.mass.gov/s/hic-contractor-search

## Sources

- [Google](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Ambrose%20Homes%20Inc&query_place_id=ChIJ1yLmhzRn-4kR4NFNJvqNXV0): 4.0★ from 8 ratings
- [Google Reviews](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Ambrose%20Homes%20Inc&query_place_id=ChIJ1yLmhzRn-4kR4NFNJvqNXV0): Listed on this source
- [Yelp](https://www.yelp.com/biz/ambrose-homes-wellfleet): Listed on this source
- [Official Website](http://ambrosehomes.com): 40 yrs in business · Self-reported profile and service details
- [Exa](http://www.ambrosehomes.com/helicals): 0 web mentions across the open web (each linked to its source)
- [Exa](https://nehomemag.com/a-coastal-retreat-with-modernist-roots/): 4 web mentions across the open web (each linked to its source)
- [BuildZoom](https://www.buildzoom.com/contractor/ambrose-homes-inc): Listed on this source

## Mentions

Unverified third-party mentions found on the open web — relay with attribution ("a Reddit commenter said…"), never as Tavlee's own finding.

- “The work would be done by Ambrose Homes, a Wellfleet construction firm.” — provincetownindependent.org (2026-06-03) — https://provincetownindependent.org/local-journalism-project/2026/06/03/demolition-begins-for-two-homes-on-a-retreating-bluff/
- “Ambrose is coming out to talk it through with me, as well as a couple of others.” — u/ponderingaresponse in r/CapeCod (2025-09-25) — https://www.reddit.com/r/CapeCod/comments/1no5yqz/1700s_eastham_house_renovations/ng20rq4/
- “Seconding Ambrose” — u/motleykat in r/CapeCod (2025-09-23) — https://www.reddit.com/r/CapeCod/comments/1no5yqz/1700s_eastham_house_renovations/nfpkqrs/
- “Ambrose homes does all those things, they lift houses as well” — u/Ok_Figure7671 in r/CapeCod (2025-09-23) — https://www.reddit.com/r/CapeCod/comments/1no5yqz/1700s_eastham_house_renovations/nfph4u0/
- “Project Team Architecture and interior design: Walker Architects Builder: Ambrose Homes” — nehomemag.com (2025-06-04) — https://nehomemag.com/a-coastal-retreat-with-modernist-roots/
- “said Ezra Ambrose of Wellfleet-based Ambrose Homes, which is doing the lift at 453 Commercial St.” — capecodtimes.com (2025-03-17) — https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2025/03/17/provincetown-ma-house-lifting-cost-how-does-it-work-flood/82234673007/
- “Wellfleet-based Ambrose Homes is the main contractor on that project. The company lifts and moves homes to save them from falling into the ocean due to erosion, according to the website, and owns unif…” — capecodtimes.com (2025-02-26) — https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2025/02/26/flood-zone-provincetown-ma-houses-raised-lifted-elevated-climate-change/77596089007/
- “Pilings will be driven 50 feet into the ground, and the house will be stabilized on the pilings rather than on a new concrete foundation, Ezra Ambrose, who is leading the house move for Ambrose Homes,…” — capecodtimes.com (2016-02-20) — https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/environment/2016/02/20/wellfleet-house-move-latest-effort/32499655007/

## Recent reviews

- **5/5 · Google Reviews · Dmitry Mazheika (Belport Building Cape Cod) · 2024-07-06**: Very knowledgeable and experienced crews!
- **5/5 · Google Reviews · Chris Sousa · 2023-01-30**: I used Abrose Homes (Ezra Ambrose) to move my home and put on an addition during the pandemic.  This was a stressful undertaking.
Ambrose delivered a great product on budget during a tough time for everyone.  Ezra Ambrose will give you a realistic timeframe, never rude, honest, earnest, and direct.
- **1/5 · Google Reviews · Ashley Velie · 2022-07-06**: Incredibly rude and shortsighted approach to business. Tried reaching them for 1 month- when I finally got through to the contractor she was rude and unprofessional.  Needless to say,  I moved on to another contractor.

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