Bevilacqua Builders

Bevilacqua Builders works out of 13 Eaton Court in Wellesley and trades as The Bevilacqua Company, Inc. Paul Bevilacqua is its president, and the business reports it started in January 2003, putting it at 23 years. It is a three-person shop, and the work it advertises is at the large end of residential: custom homes, new home construction, additions and accessory dwelling units, with a typical job cost listed at $500,000 to $4 million. The people who hired it kept coming back to the same two things. In a January 2017 review a homeowner who had just doubled the size of their house wrote that Paul kept their budget in mind and guided them through the decisions the project demanded, and that fifteen years on they were still happy with the result. A December 2016 client who commissioned a major renovation said the owner took the time to understand what they wanted and delivered on time and within budget, and another January 2017 reviewer called the pricing competitive and the quality exceptional. An architect who had worked alongside him on several small projects described him in 2013 as a dedicated and energetic builder. Every one of the five reviews on file is five stars, and every one names Paul personally rather than a crew or an office. The catch is age. The newest of those written accounts is from January 2017, so the praise is real and dated rather than current, and there are only five accounts in total. The Better Business Bureau gives the business an A+, but that is the Bureau's own grade rather than a measure of customer satisfaction, and the business is not BBB accredited. The BBB also files it under Architect while the company itself and its clients describe it as a custom home builder, so ask directly which role it is taking on your project. This is a small, long-established, owner-run builder for substantial Wellesley-area jobs, working in Wellesley, Needham, Weston and Dover. If you are considering them, ask for references and photographs from the last two or three years rather than relying on the older reviews, confirm current Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration and construction supervisor licensing, and get the budget process the earlier clients praised written into the contract.