Service Areas
Custom homes & multiplexes across Abbotsford & Greater Vancouver.
Abbotsford is Icon's Fraser Valley home base — we build custom homes and, under the city's December 2025 zoning, SSMUH multiplexes of up to four homes across its neighbourhoods, from Auguston and Sumas Mountain to Clearbrook, Clayburn Village and the Bradner–Mt Lehman acreages. We also build throughout Greater Vancouver, Burnaby included. Every neighbourhood builds differently — lot conditions, permitting, climate exposure. Pick your area below to see how we approach it.
City Guide · Abbotsford
Fraser Valley Head OfficeCustom Home & Multiplex Builder in Abbotsford
Abbotsford is Icon's Fraser Valley home base, and it builds nothing like Burnaby. The lots are larger, the soils change from one block to the next, and the regulatory weight lives in riparian setbacks, the Agricultural Land Reserve and the Sumas Prairie floodplain rather than a strict urban tree bylaw. It's also a city in the middle of a real housing shift — Abbotsford adopted a new Official Community Plan and rewrote its zoning on December 16, 2025, opening most single-family lots to up to four homes. We build custom homes, multiplexes and fee-simple rowhomes here, and we treat the lot — its grade, its water, its soils — as the first decision on every project.
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Where we work in Abbotsford.
Each neighbourhood has different lot conditions, zoning posture and design opportunities. We adjust our approach accordingly.
Auguston
Custom Home Builder in Auguston, Abbotsford
Auguston is the master-planned community on the lower northwest flank of Sumas Mountain in East Abbotsford — walkable streets, parks woven through the plan, a consistent streetscape, and a strong neighbourhood feel that draws young families. It's one of the most sought-after pockets in the city. Building here means working within a community that already has a coherent character, on lots that step up the hill, where grade and drainage shape the design more than most owners expect.
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Sumas Mountain
Custom Home Builder on Sumas Mountain, Abbotsford
Sumas Mountain and the Eastern Hillsides are where Abbotsford's most ambitious view homes get built — spacious lots set into the slope, panoramic outlooks across the valley to Mount Baker, and the quiet of being surrounded by trees and trails. It's hillside building, and it rewards a builder who actually knows slope. The view is the reason most owners buy here. The foundation and drainage are half of what makes the home stand for fifty years.
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Sandy Hill
Custom Home Builder in Sandy Hill, Abbotsford
Sandy Hill has been one of East Abbotsford's most sought-after communities for decades — established streets, generous lots, valley and mountain views from the higher ground, and schools that keep families planted here for the long term. The housing stock has matured into an active teardown-and-rebuild rotation, and a meaningful share of our Sandy Hill work is owners who love the location and want a full-sized new home on the lot they already know.
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West Abbotsford
Custom Home & Multiplex Builder in West Abbotsford
West Abbotsford and Clearbrook are the city's flatter, denser, more central neighbourhoods — older single-family stock, a steady supply of more affordable lots, and exactly the kind of ground Abbotsford's new four-unit zoning was written for. This is where the multiplex and fee-simple rowhome opportunity is strongest in the city, and it's where we're building Trio on McCallum right now. It's also still good custom-home territory for owners rebuilding on a central lot.
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McMillan
Custom Home Builder in McMillan, Abbotsford
McMillan is one of Abbotsford's oldest neighbourhoods — mature streets, spacious lots, a mix of rancher-style homes and larger properties, and a school catchment that keeps families here for the long term. The big red barn that's becoming the Cooper Farms development is part of the local landmark fabric. It's a neighbourhood where the lots are generous enough for serious custom work and the housing stock is old enough that rebuilds and deep renovations are both live.
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City Guide · Burnaby
Custom Home Builder in Burnaby
Burnaby has quietly become one of the most active custom-home markets in Greater Vancouver. The city sits on real topography — Capitol Hill rises 203 metres above the inlet, Burnaby Mountain pushes higher still, and Deer Lake sits in a pocket of mature trees that feels closer to a park than a neighbourhood. Every lot is a different problem. We've spent the better part of two decades building and renovating across the city, and we know what it takes to deliver a home that fits the lot, the climate, the city's review process, and the way your family actually lives in it.
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Where we work in Burnaby.
Each neighbourhood has different lot conditions, zoning posture and design opportunities. We adjust our approach accordingly.
Burnaby Heights
Custom Home Builder in Burnaby Heights
Burnaby Heights is the north-slope neighbourhood that fans out below the Hastings Street commercial spine — view-rich lots stepping down toward Burrard Inlet, a pre-war and post-war housing stock that's aging into an active teardown rotation, and a streetscape that still feels like a neighbourhood. The lots here demand patience, a builder who reads the slope, and a willingness to do the small details properly. The Hastings retail corridor adds a walking-distance amenity that almost no other view-lot neighbourhood in Burnaby can claim.
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Brentwood
Custom Home Builder in Brentwood, Burnaby
Brentwood has changed more in the last decade than most BC neighbourhoods change in fifty years. Towers around the SkyTrain hub, single-family streets a block away, multiplex zoning rolling out across the surrounding lots — the result is a neighbourhood where serious custom and small-multi work is in active demand.
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Metrotown
Custom Home Builder Near Metrotown, Burnaby
Metrotown is dense at the centre and quietly residential at the edges. The single-family streets that ring the core — Maywood, Oakdale, parts of Forest Glen — are some of the most active multiplex and custom-home territory in Burnaby. The land is well-located, the demand is real, and the underlying lots are big enough for serious projects.
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Capitol Hill
Custom Home Builder in Capitol Hill, Burnaby
Capitol Hill rises 203 metres above Burrard Inlet on Burnaby's north slope — the neighbourhood spans the summit and the streets that fall away toward Hastings. The lots are steep, the inlet and North Shore views are the reason most owners buy here, and the building process rewards a builder who actually knows hillside. It's also one of the city's older established residential pockets, with strong Italian, Portuguese and Croatian heritage on the streets that ring the summit.
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Deer Lake
Custom Home Builder in Deer Lake, Burnaby
Deer Lake is Burnaby's quietest, most wooded enclave — estate-scale lots typically running 8,000 to 15,000 square feet and beyond, mature Douglas fir and cedar canopy on nearly every parcel, and a heritage register that includes Ceperley House (Fairacres), the 1911 Samuel Maclure–designed Arts and Crafts mansion that anchors the lakeside parkland. It's the part of Burnaby where the most ambitious custom builds in the city tend to land, and where the tree bylaw and heritage character of the surrounding fabric drive the design conversation more than anywhere else in the city.
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Edmonds
Custom Home Builder in Edmonds, Burnaby
Edmonds is one of Burnaby's most quietly active neighbourhoods. Transit-oriented density along the SkyTrain corridor, a strong stock of mid-century single-family homes a few blocks back, and a real multiplex opportunity on lots that previously sat outside the conversation.
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Highgate
Custom Home Builder in Highgate, Burnaby
Highgate sits between Edmonds and Metrotown — close enough to transit and amenity to be convenient, far enough back to feel residential. It's a neighbourhood that rewards the kind of custom build that doesn't try too hard.
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Sperling-Burnaby Lake
Custom Home Builder in Sperling–Burnaby Lake
Sperling–Burnaby Lake is one of the city's quieter east-side neighbourhoods. Lots tend to be generous, the streets are calm, and there's a real opportunity for a custom build that takes advantage of the available space without crowding the lot.
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Big Bend
Custom Home Builder in Big Bend, Burnaby
Big Bend is unlike the rest of Burnaby. The Fraser River bends around it, the lots are larger, and parts of the area still feel agricultural. For homeowners who want privacy, space and a different kind of project, it's a serious option.
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Buckingham Heights
Custom Home Builder in Buckingham Heights, Burnaby
Buckingham Heights is one of the city's most established residential pockets — leafy streets, generous lots, a neighbourhood character that's stayed remarkably consistent over decades. New builds here are about fitting in beautifully, not standing out.
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Westridge
Custom Home Builder in Westridge, Burnaby
Westridge sits on the steep, south-facing flank above Burrard Inlet, east of Capitol Hill and just west of the Burnaby–Port Moody boundary. The aspect is the headline — broad inlet and Indian Arm views from almost every lot — but the slope, the proximity to industrial neighbours along the inlet shoreline, and the patchwork of view-protection covenants on certain streets make this one of the most demanding pockets in the city to build well.
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Parkcrest
Custom Home Builder in Parkcrest, Burnaby
Parkcrest sits north of Lougheed Highway and east of Sperling, a quiet grid of post-war ranchers on flat 60- to 66-foot lots. The streets — Sprott, Halifax, Curtis, Parker — run under a mature canopy of cedar and maple that has shaped the neighbourhood's character for half a century. It's also what makes a Parkcrest teardown a more involved exercise than the lot dimensions would suggest.
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Montecito
Custom Home Builder in Montecito, Burnaby
Montecito climbs the south slope of Burnaby Mountain north of Lougheed Highway, an established 1970s and 1980s executive enclave threaded by Stoney Creek and its tributaries. The combination of hillside topography, riparian setbacks and mature lot landscaping makes this one of the more interesting pockets in Burnaby for owners who want a serious renovation or a thoughtful new build with a real backdrop.
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Government Road
Custom Home Builder in the Government Road Area, Burnaby
The Government Road area sits below the south face of Burnaby Mountain, between Sperling Avenue and the Coquitlam boundary. The lots are some of the largest in the city — 80- to 100-foot frontages are common, with a number of parcels considerably larger — and the area has retained a quiet, semi-rural character that's increasingly rare in Greater Vancouver. It's also threaded by creeks and steep treed banks that define what can actually be built where.
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Forest Glen
Custom Home Builder in Forest Glen, Burnaby
Forest Glen sits in a quietly desirable pocket between Maywood to the west and Deer Lake Park to the east — close enough to Metrotown to be convenient, far enough back to feel residential. The streetscape is leafy, the lots are generous by central-Burnaby standards, and the prevailing housing stock is mid-century split-levels that have aged into a real teardown and renovation market.
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South Slope
Custom Home Builder on Burnaby's South Slope
Burnaby's South Slope falls gently from Imperial Street toward the Fraser River, taking in the Suncrest pocket and the established residential streets above Marine Way. The slope's southern aspect creates a real rain-shadow microclimate — the area sees noticeably more sun and less rain than the North Slope — and the housing stock is substantially original 1960s and 1970s single-family, much of it now in active teardown rotation.
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Lake City
Custom Home Builder in Lake City, Burnaby
The Lake City area sits along the north shore of Burnaby Lake, anchored by the Lake City Way SkyTrain station on the Millennium Line. The neighbourhood combines genuinely larger lots, direct interface with the Burnaby Lake Regional Park trail network, and a transit-oriented effect from the station that has reshaped the area's value proposition over the last decade.
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Sullivan Heights
Custom Home Builder in Sullivan Heights, Burnaby
Sullivan Heights occupies a flat suburban grid in north-east Burnaby, above the Lougheed corridor and within easy reach of both Cameron and Simon Fraser University on the mountain above. The streets are quiet, the lots are regular, and the housing stock is predominantly 1970s and 1980s family homes — many of which are now in the renovation or teardown conversation.
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Cariboo
Custom Home Builder in the Cariboo Hill Area, Burnaby
The Cariboo Hill area rises north-east of Government Road in the corner of Burnaby that meets Coquitlam, with sloped lots that step up from the valley floor and views east toward Coquitlam. The area is characterised by older custom homes on generous lots, significant tree coverage, and the kind of slope that demands serious geotechnical and drainage thought from the start.
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City Guide · Vancouver
Custom Home Builder in Vancouver
Vancouver's custom-home market is one of the most demanding in Canada — expensive land, a city permitting process with real teeth, and homeowners who've done their research. We work in it because the projects are serious and the lots, when you find the right one, are among the best in the country to build on.
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Where we work in Vancouver.
Each neighbourhood has different lot conditions, zoning posture and design opportunities. We adjust our approach accordingly.
Dunbar-Southlands
Custom Home Builder in Dunbar-Southlands, Vancouver
Dunbar-Southlands is the quietest, most established corner of Vancouver's west side. The lots are generous, the streets are treed, and the building stock spans everything from heritage character homes to serious modern builds. It's a neighbourhood where the discipline is restraint and the brief is almost always long-term.
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Kitsilano
Custom Home Builder in Kitsilano, Vancouver
Kitsilano's single-family streets sit between the beach and Broadway — one of the most well-located residential positions in the city. The lots are urban, the character is established, and the projects here tend to be renovations and careful infill rather than teardowns. When the brief is right, it's some of the most interesting work we do.
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