Cityside Construction LLC

Cityside Construction is a small, founder-led Boston general contractor — Nicholas Matt started it after a decade working construction in the city, with Garrett Peters running projects alongside him, and its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. The company says it also runs a real estate arm tied to William Raveis and works Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Wellesley, Back Bay, the South End, Seaport, Brookline and Weston. The track record is short — just 11 reviews since 2024, all five stars on Google — but the reviews that exist read like people who actually hired them, not boilerplate. Several describe full apartment gut renovations: one homeowner had a top-floor apartment converted from a two-bedroom to a three-bedroom with two bathrooms rebuilt, finished ahead of schedule and on budget with daily progress reports. Another recounts Nick's crew demolishing and rebuilding the porches on a triple-decker, adapting to problems that came up mid-job without piling on extra cost. A third describes a drywall crew framing a new wall from scratch and finishing a room in about four hours — fast enough that the reviewer, writing in Spanish, said it usually takes other crews a couple of days. The name that comes up repeatedly is Nick — reviewers say he's easy to reach, texts through the process, and comes by for walkthroughs rather than disappearing between visits. More than one review specifically credits the team with not upselling: they solved problems within the original plan rather than padding the scope. There isn't much of a downside to point to yet in the written record, though with only 11 reviews on file that's a small sample to judge a young company by. Worth confirming directly: given the real estate affiliation, whether Cityside handles a renovation independently or expects the homeowner to also work with its Raveis-affiliated agent.