Highland Builders & Design, Inc

Highland Builders & Design is a Newton general contractor working out of 9 Forest St under owner David Nauss, and the first thing worth knowing is about its registration rather than its craftsmanship. The Massachusetts registry lists the company's Home Improvement Contractor registration, #120960, as expired, with the registry's holder of record matching the company name. BuildZoom's listing points the same way: a General Contractor licence, #110277, carrying a 1994 expiration date that BuildZoom says it last confirmed expired in June 2026, two Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registrations shown as inactive, and a BuildZoom score of zero because no active licence could be verified. Set against that is a real working history — BuildZoom's permit records show 14 permitted projects for the company. In Massachusetts, non-structural residential remodeling is meant to be performed under a current Home Improvement Contractor registration, so the practical next step is to ask the company directly whether that registration has been renewed and to get the current number in writing before any contract is signed. Until that is cleared up, this is a firm to approach with the licensing question first.