About Vancouver Laneway Homes

Vancouver Laneway Homes was built around a simple observation: secondary dwellings and custom homes across Metro Vancouver are not one product. A laneway house in Vancouver, a garden suite in Richmond, and a coach house in North Vancouver each answer to a different bylaw with its own size caps, setback rules, height limits, and permit path. Too many homeowners were being handed a generic plan that ignored the differences between the seven municipalities they actually build in.

That gap is what this company set out to close. Rather than treating laneway houses, garden suites, custom homes, and project management as separate specialties, we brought them under one roof with city-specific knowledge at the center of every project. The goal is straightforward: give homeowners a single, accountable team that understands what their specific lot qualifies for under their specific city's rules, and carries the build from the first feasibility question through to the final walkthrough without handing them off partway through.

The result is a calmer, clearer building experience. No one-size-fits-all advice, no surprise permit rejections, no mid-project handoffs. Just honest answers about what's possible on your property, a realistic picture of cost and timeline, and a build that's planned to the bylaws that actually apply.

We work across all seven cities in our service area, Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, North Vancouver, Delta, Surrey, and Coquitlam , and we treat each one's rules as genuinely different. A Vancouver laneway house, a Richmond garden suite, and a Coquitlam accessory unit are not the same product with a different label. They're governed by different bylaws with different height limits, setback requirements, size caps, and permit processes, and a design that sails through in one city can be non-compliant in the next. We don't apply one generic approach across seven municipalities; we work to the numbers that actually apply to your lot.

We also cover the full scope a homeowner might need rather than specialising in a single service and treating everything else as an afterthought. Laneway houses, garden suites, custom homes, and project management are all part of what we do, so if your project starts as a garden suite and grows into a custom home with a future secondary dwelling planned from the start, or if you already have a designer and just need someone to run the build, you're not handed off to a different company mid-project.

Throughout the build, we keep communication straightforward and honest. Permit timelines, costs, and construction schedules all vary by project and by city, so rather than quoting a single number that won't hold across seven municipalities and four service types, we give you a realistic picture based on your specific property and goals, and keep you updated as things move.