Catamount Builders

Catamount Builders is a one-person-run, Boston-based general contracting shop — Steven Deering has held its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration (#154867) active since founding the company in 2007, and BBB lists it at an A+ after 19 years in business. The one written account on file, from 2023, describes a two-year, 10,000-plus-square-foot gut renovation of two multi-family brick buildings, with residents living in the buildings during the work reporting no construction-related issues afterward — the reviewer called Steven and his team honest, upfront and fair on pricing. A 2024 Reddit comment separately mentions using Catamount for a kitchen renovation that required multiple permits. BuildZoom's permit history backs up the range of that first account: 27 logged projects since 2013, including Brookline multi-unit renovations valued around $600,000 each, kitchen and bathroom jobs in Cambridge and Somerville, and a two-family-to-single-family conversion — a score that puts the company in the top 27% of Massachusetts contractors it tracks. Worth knowing before calling: Google's own star average sits at 3.2 from nine ratings, noticeably below the lone written review — with so few text accounts on file, it's worth asking for references directly given how thin the public review trail is.