Custom Home Builders in Apple Valley, MN

Homes by Tradition

Luxury · Custom · Luxury

Homes by Tradition is a locally owned, Lakeville-based custom home builder whose team of architects, designers, and craftsmen guides clients through a custom design-build journey, including building on your own lot. Through its TRADITION network it offers in-house mortgage, banking, title, and development services. Listed service areas include Lakeville, Prior Lake, Edina, Minnetonka, Rosemount, Chaska, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota Heights, and Dakota County.

Parade of Homes 2021

OneTenTen Homes

Mid-range · Custom · Semi-Custom · based in Burnsville

OneTenTen Homes is a Burnsville-based builder that combines the efficiency of a large builder with the flexibility of an independent custom builder, offering a large scope of pre-designed floorplans and models that buyers can customize. The company grew out of Bill and Carol Ryan's Bloomington real estate roots, and its process includes a detailed pre-construction meeting, a pre-drywall inspection, and a 10-year structural warranty. Its site notes it is a recipient of the Parade of Homes Reggie Award and has multiple models open in Twin Cities communities.

Parade of Homes 2026

Bellepar Homes

Mid-range · Custom · Whole-Home Remodel · Basement Finishing · based in Lakeville

Bellepar Homes is a Lakeville firm specializing in new home design/build, remodeling and additions, and finished basements for homeowners in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas. Clients can build from the firm’s stock floorplans — each designed as a customizable starting point — or pursue a fully custom design, and the team collaborates weekly across design, production, construction, and budget until project completion.

Cuddigan Custom Builders

Mid-range · Custom · based in Lakeville

Cuddigan Custom Builders is a Lakeville-based family business that has been building custom homes since 1985 - more than 40 years - with each home architecturally inspired and individually tailored to the client's needs. The firm builds in neighborhoods including The Wilds and The Ranch of Credit River as well as on customers' own lots, and its project team works with clients every step of the process.

Parade of Homes 2026

Homes by Moderno

Mid-range · Custom · Semi-Custom · based in Lakeville

Homes by Moderno - whose site now operates as Moderno Construction Management (Moderno Homes) - is a third-generation, family-owned builder led by owners Jake, Ashlee, and Alexandra Tupy, serving Prior Lake, Lakeville, and surrounding south metro areas. The family has built over 800 homes and completed over thirty five residential developments plus complex acreage and lake builds, and its building model promises 100% transparency in finance and schedules, keeping clients highly involved throughout the build.

McNearney Custom Homes

Luxury · Custom · based in Lakeville

McNearney Custom Homes is a Lakeville family builder whose site describes nearly 100 years of building: grandfather Robert began building homes just after World War I, Jim took over the business in 1955, and current owner Bob McNearney succeeded him in 1988. With a focus on quality over quantity, the firm offers a hands-on custom process - from selecting materials to applying your own design ideas - with in-house plan design, and can assist buyers in finding a lot and building in the Twin Cities suburbs and metro area.

Pietsch Builders

Mid-range · Custom · based in Lakeville

Pietsch Builders is a custom home builder in Lakeville, Minnesota, building custom homes in the south metro since 1986. The company builds 30-50 homes a year using fully customizable floor plans, currently including the Berres Ridge neighborhood in Lakeville, and clients have direct contact with Doug Pietsch from start to finish of the building process.

Parade of Homes 2026

Stone Cottage Construction

Mid-range · Custom · Semi-Custom · based in Apple Valley

Stone Cottage Construction is an Apple Valley-based custom home builder serving the Minneapolis and St. Paul area, bringing a combined 60 years of experience to the building process. Buyers can pick from the company's rambler and two-story plans for a range of budgets, bring their own plan, or have one designed specifically for them, with help from an in-house designer and a private design center. Its site notes a Builders Association of the Twin Cities Reggie Award recognizing its popular rambler plan.

Parade of Homes 2026

McDonald Construction Partners

Mid-range · Custom · Semi-Custom · based in Burnsville

McDonald Construction Partners builds custom and semi-custom homes across the Twin Cities, carrying on a company history that dates to 1978; founder Bob McDonald retired in late 2021 after Dave Remick acquired the firm in September 2021. Based in Burnsville, the builder develops and builds within its own communities across the metro and also builds on land clients already own, including teardown-and-rebuild projects in established neighborhoods. An in-house design team and home consultants work with buyers on the details, and every McDonald home is MN Green Path tested.

Parade of Homes 2026