Welcome to
Ranson Homes LTD

We can build homes in many locations, including Sherwood Park, Ardrossen, St. Albert, and on acreages. If you are interested in building a home in a new area, we can approach the land developer to see if we can secure a lot or purchase one from another builder.

Please let us know if you are considering this route, and we will do our best to help you find a suitable location.

Great question! Since the majority of our homes have custom details ranging from moving a wall or two, to a fully bespoke plan there’s a bit of a range. 

We also don’t do any foundations when the ground is frozen during the winter months. You technically can but we don’t think it’s the greatest long term. 

The best is to budget a year as a time frame. If there’s something that we need to know (like timing for starting your kids at a new school) let us know early in the process. 

We can follow two normal types of financing for building your home. 

Completion Mortgage

Completion mortgages tend to require smaller deposits and land title gets transferred to you at possession. 

Draw Mortgage

Draw mortgages are preferred by both Ranson Homes and banks when the homes are quite custom or over a certain price point. 

Title transfers to you at the time of the first draw. Ranson Homes would reimburse the interest charged to you on the draw mortgage during the build process at closing.

We like to have a process with our clients that is highly involved with defining how they will use the home. 

The first step of our process is typically the discovery meeting. Here we’ve got a document that guides us to find out what’s important to you so we can advise you accordingly. 

Once we’ve completed discovery, we’ll start redlining floor plans. Redlining involves us drawing on plans and submitting them to our team. 

They’ll change the plans and review for HVAC, Telepost locations, Structural and design compliance. This way, when we send them to you to review, there’s no surprises down the line. 

We’re a bit of a different overall organization in the Edmonton home design and building market. 

We’ve got the resources and staff in-house that a design firm would and a construction arm.

We’ve done this for a few reasons, the main ones being that it removes any disparity between what the designers promise and what the construction team can execute. 

This way, when you’re reviewing plans early on, you know it’s something we’re confident in being able to build. 

Because we take this approach, we don’t charge for drawings at this time, as we’re going to build your home too.

Since we have a basis for specifications we’re a fixed cost basis home builder. 

We think this route is actually better, as a home builder we’re motivated to get great products that are well priced so we can control our overall costs. This way, we can offer you a price that co-relates with the overall value. 

Cost plus pushes us to not question costs from trades, we would be incentived to charge more since it’s based on a percentage. 

Cost plus also would force us to use different trades than we already do. We take a lot of focus and time to determine who’s building our homes, with what materials and how they compose themselves.