Luxury Home Builders in Minnesota

Sustainable 9 builds third-party-certified, high-performance modern homes — triple-pane glass, low-VOC materials, solar-ready systems — around Minneapolis’ lakes and the west metro.

A third-generation family builder based in Wayzata, Mark D. Williams Custom Homes builds high-end customs around Lake Minnetonka with a distinctive point of view: Scandinavian-inspired design, organic materials, and a healthy-home building philosophy.

Four generations of the Gustafson family stand behind Stonewood, Wayzata’s luxury custom builder for lakefront estates, teardown-rebuilds, and architect-designed customs across 18 Twin Cities communities.

Building custom homes in the west metro since 1987, Gonyea Custom Homes runs design and construction under one roof — a design-build approach that has earned multiple Reggie Awards and a place among the Top 25 Twin Cities builders.

Founded in 2005 by John Quinlivan — Housing First Minnesota’s 2023 board chair — Gordon James designs and builds architecturally ambitious luxury homes across the west metro.

A women-owned Edina builder named Housing First Minnesota’s 2025 Builder of the Year, City Homes specializes in contemporary luxury customs, aging-in-place design, and remodels in Edina and Minneapolis.

Homes by Tradition builds luxury customs with an emphasis on energy efficiency and smart-home integration, working both the south metro and the west-metro luxury cities — on its lots or yours.

Minnesota’s only five-time Builder of the Year, third-generation John Kraemer & Sons has built and renovated luxury residences since 1978 with its own superintendents on-site daily and fully open-book budgets.

An award-winning family design-build firm since 1979, Hanson Builders delivers luxury and custom homes across the north and west metro — one of the few builders combining Top 25 volume with a genuinely custom product.

With more than 35 years building across the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin, Hartman Homes specializes in lake and luxury homes, with work featured in regional design publications.

Savage-based Highmark Builders builds and remodels luxury custom homes across the south metro — including acreage projects in Credit River — and was named Housing First Minnesota's Remodeler of the Year for 2025.

Denali Custom Homes builds at the top of the west-metro luxury market, guiding clients through a structured, high-touch building experience for estate-grade customs in Edina, the Lake Minnetonka communities, and the southwest suburbs.

ADOR builds fully bespoke luxury homes from the ground up across the Lake Minnetonka area — led by Todd Simning, a preferred general contractor for the Twin Cities’ high-end architecture firms with three decades of building behind him.

A family-owned Wayzata firm founded in 1999, Hendel Homes builds highly detailed luxury customs across Lake Minnetonka, Edina, and the metro’s premier neighborhoods behind a 500-item pre-construction process.

For 35 years Deephaven’s Kyle Hunt & Partners has taken an artisan approach to luxury customs — collaborating with outside architects and designers rather than one-stop-shopping — including 2024 Artisan Home Tour work.

Since 1978 L. Cramer has built and remodeled upper-market customs — averaging over $1M and deliberately capped at ten to twelve projects a year under third-generation carpenter Greg Jurvakainen.

Building since 1978 from offices in Wayzata and Baxter, Nor-Son Custom Builders delivers luxury homes, lake estates, and whole-house remodels across the Twin Cities and the lakes country.

Norton Homes focuses on custom design and teardown/infill builds in the established west-metro suburbs — the specialist path for buyers who want a new home in a built-out neighborhood like Edina or Minnetonka.

REFINED has built and remodeled more than 100 custom homes in Edina, Lake Minnetonka, and other established Twin Cities neighborhoods since 2008, guiding owners from lot sourcing through construction.

Founded in 1975, Wooddale builds luxury custom homes, villas, and townhomes across a dozen west-metro communities, alongside whole-house remodeling.

A west-metro luxury custom builder with more than 50 years of building led by the Swanson family, Swanson Homes builds architecturally driven customs in communities like Deer Hill Preserve in Medina and Hollydale in Plymouth, and is a regular on Housing First Minnesota's Artisan Home Tour.

For nearly four decades the Lecy family has built custom homes and major remodels across the west metro, with in-house architectural and interior design teams and 30-plus craftsmen.

Scott and Margaret Busyn’s boutique firm works exclusively in Edina and its immediate neighbors, known for neighbor-first teardown-rebuilds — complete with pre-build neighborhood meetings and material recycling.

Founded by Robert Hagstrom in 1962, Hagstrom Builder crafts architecturally designed customs and renovations from downtown Lake Elmo, with work spanning the Twin Cities, Wisconsin, and Florida.

Four generations of the Michels family have built and remodeled in the North Oaks area; Andy Michels supervises every custom build and renovation personally.

A third-generation family firm that has built in Edina for nearly a century, Carl M Hansen Companies was voted the city’s best new-home builder in 2023.

Since Ron Clark’s first Edina twinhome in 1975, the firm has built more than 800 homes — villas, twinhomes, condominiums, and customs — in the metro’s most established neighborhoods, earning Housing First Minnesota’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement award.

One of Minnesota’s most-awarded architectural design-build teams, Charles Cudd blends in-house architecture, interior design, and construction management for luxury homes, twinhomes, and villas across 14 Plymouth-area communities.

Since 1992 Erotas has built architecturally driven residences around Lake Minnetonka and beyond — complex, architect-designed new homes and renovations of unusual scope.

Michael Laumann’s design-build practice creates custom homes in the Lake Minnetonka corridor, with a 2026 Parade entry on Shadywood Road and two decades of high-end building behind it.

A boutique builder-remodeler based in Mendota Heights, SD Custom Homes has designed and built luxury customs across the east and south metro for 16 years.