Matthew Fischer Custom Builder

Matthew Fischer Custom Builder is a small, owner-run contracting shop based in Arlington that Matthew Fischer says he started in 1980, now working with a crew of three full-time builders on remodeling, additions, renovations and new construction across towns like Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Belmont and Concord. The written record here is thin — just one review on file, a 2016 account on Houzz that called the team among the most pleasant and highest-quality contractors the homeowner had hired, citing attention to budget and craftsmanship. Beyond that single review, a couple of other renovation and design firms' project pages name Matthew Fischer Custom Builder as the general contractor on their own work, which points to real projects even where no customer wrote them up directly. The state registry currently shows an active Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration under Fischer's name, though the company's own site still displays an outdated 2015 expiration date for that same license number, along with a separately listed Construction Supervisor License showing a 2017 expiration — both read like an About page that hasn't been refreshed in a while rather than a current problem, but worth confirming directly. For a homeowner in the Arlington/Cambridge area looking for a small, hands-on custom builder, the one account on file is a strong one — just ask for a few current references given how little else is written about recent work.