Matthew Fischer Custom Builder

Matthew Fischer Custom Builder is an Arlington general contractor who works the renovation-and-addition end of Greater Boston — the company says it has built everything from large-scale new construction down to detail and finish work, in Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Belmont, Concord and Arlington, leaning on a network of subcontractors rather than a big in-house crew. The written account of that work is thin and it is old. One Houzz review, posted in February 2016, gives five stars: a homeowner who said they had hired countless contractors called Matthew and his team among the most pleasant, high-quality and on-time they had worked with, sensitive about budget and attentive to detail and craftsmanship. That is the whole of it — one voice, from a decade ago. So take the praise as a real but dated account, not as proof of how the company runs a job in 2026. The rating here stays low-confidence for exactly that reason. He is worth a call if you want a smaller, hands-on GC for a remodel or addition in the inner Boston suburbs. Before you sign, ask for two or three recent client references and the addresses of jobs finished in the past year, and confirm his current Massachusetts construction supervisor and home improvement contractor registrations directly with the state — nothing here verifies them.