Vol. I · Los Angeles
An Owner-Builder Journal
Spring MMXXVI

AtlasHome Builders, Inc.

Established 1996 · Los Angeles
An owner-builder journal. Thirty years of operating, developing, and building in Los Angeles.
CA Class B General Contractor · License [pending]
A Statement of Purpose, 001

Built by owners, for owners.

Atlas Home Builders, Inc. is a licensed California Class B general contractor. Operating, developing, and building in Los Angeles since 1996. See capabilities →

§ 03, Atlas Brief

From the
Brief.

Read the Brief →
Construction Costs April 9, 2026 · 14 min read

The LA Cost Ceiling Didn't Break. It Just Moved.

Hard-cost inflation in multifamily has not reverted. It has rotated, from lumber and metals into labor, soft costs, and the slow tax of municipal delay. Here is what we're seeing in our own GCs, our own invoices, and our own schedules across five active jobs.

Cover illustration, cost-per-SF chart, LA 2019-2026
§ 04, Selected Work

Two buildings,
still held by the builder.

About the portfolio →
P-01

The Felix on Fairfax

Multifamily · Ground-up
The Felix on Fairfax — a five-story grey-and-white multifamily building at 731 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles.
Exterior, south elevation · 731 N Fairfax Avenue
Units
43
Stories
5
Delivered
2023
Held by
Sponsor

A 43-unit, five-story residential building developed, built, and held by Atlas. Designed around a single organizing principle: no unit plan exists that the sponsor wouldn't live in.

P-02

Olympic Towers

Condominium · Twelve Homes
Olympic Towers — a four-story white multifamily building with orange accent bands and cantilevered balconies, Mid-City West.
Exterior, corner elevation · Olympic Boulevard
Units
12
Type
Condo
Delivered
2019
Sold
12 of 12

Twelve for-sale homes in a mid-Wilshire infill. A study in how much a thoughtful building envelope and a real construction schedule can add to a buyer's basis without adding a dollar to ours.

§ 05, Who We Serve

Owners with long memories, and longer hold periods.

01

Private landlords

Family portfolios from five to fifty doors, held across a decade or more.

02

Developers

Ground-up multifamily sponsors who self-capitalize and self-perform.

03

Family offices

Capital allocators stewarding long-hold real estate across generations.

04

Fellow GCs and operators

Peer contractors and owner-builders who read us the way we'd read them.

§ 06, Coverage

Coverage.

All neighborhoods →

The thirty-mile radius from Fairfax & Third.

A Los Angeles practice by discipline, not slogan. Most of our work sits inside a thirty-mile ring of the Fairfax office, close enough for the principal to be there by the end of the day.

  • Hancock Park
  • Beverly Grove
  • Mid-Wilshire
  • West Hollywood
  • Miracle Mile
  • Larchmont
  • Hollywood Hills
  • Brentwood
  • Pacific Palisades
  • Santa Monica
  • Bel Air
  • Sherman Oaks
  • Studio City
  • Silver Lake
  • Los Feliz
  • Culver City
Fig. 01, Service Area ATLAS HQ 145 S Fairfax Beverly Hills Santa Monica Brentwood Hollywood Culver City Studio City Silver Lake 34.0736° N · 118.3606° W