About Us

About Us

We are passionate new home builders serving the Puget Sound's Greater Eastside neighborhoods, constructing enduring, NW Contemporary homes that integrate today’s living nature into every design. When you care about the neighborhood and people, we believe design matters.

Although driven by the desire to create beauty in the community with thoughtfully designed properties, we intentionally tailor our homes around the way your family lives. Our homes are forward-leaning in style for the primary purpose of creating spaces that promote your expectations of exceptional quality and inspired living, with a focus on comfort, quality, and luxury. Merit Homes offers a wide array of intuitive floor plans for future living hand. Each plan has been crafted to capture every benefit of each specific homesite’s unique characteristics.

Our Commitment to Kirkland, Redmond, and Bellevue, WA

For over 50 years, we have embraced the responsibility as a local homebuilder, acting as stewards for the community. This city is important to us. We strive to create a positive future for its residents by building exceptional quality NW Contemporary homes that contribute to the lives and families in the area. We are an integral part of sustaining the community, contributing to the framework of the city through parks, sidewalks and infrastructure. We are proud of our continuous responsibility to the development of the thriving Greater Eastside area.

A History of Merit

We've evolved a lot over the years, from navigating zoning code changes, a worldwide pandemic, to remaining steady during a recession. However, our commitment to the Greater Eastside remains the same.

1971

It all began in 1971, where our original Founder, Greg, began building throughout the Greater Eastside. One home at at time, with just himself and a laborer, they started out constructing custom Craftsman style homes.

2002

Merit Homes, Inc - as you know us today - was formally incorporated. Greg and current Owner/Principal, Josh, focused on building mainly throughout Greater Kirkland, with an emphasis on Northwest Contemporary-style architecture, which has now become our signature design and what we are known for.
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2008

Merit Homes successfully navigates the challenges brought on by the Great Recession and is able to deliver 8 completed homes this year.

2020

The start of the pandemic, and the start of Greg's retirement! Team Merit successfully navigated the challenges, opportunities, and nuances of building new construction during a worldwide pandemic. Merit Homes begins developing their Urban Series collection of homes, utilizing the new Kirkland zoning code.

2022

The Urban Series collection was launched, offering Merit's signature, Northwest Contemporary design at a fraction of the price of typical new construction in Kirkland, WA. This collection has redefined urban living on the Eastside, and allowed Merit to be one of the first adopters of Middle Housing zoning code from 2020.
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2025

Merit Homes appoints Kevin Capuzzi as our new President. Kevin brings decades of leadership experience from a Fortune 200 company and the nation’s top homebuilder. His expertise and strategic insight make him the perfect fit to lead our day-to-day operations and guide Merit into its next chapter.

Dedicated to Building Community

Merit believes that a thriving community is raised upon a foundation of support, compassion, and collaboration. We actively engage in volunteer opportunities, fundraising events like the beloved 7 Hills of Kirkland Memorial Day Bike ride, park clean-up like Green Kirkland, and offer our resources to Hopelink, Attain Housing, Toys for Tots, and more. If you're interested in having us volunteer at/sponsor an event in Kirkland, Redmond, or Bellevue, WA, please email us at hello@merithomesinc.com.

Our Promise To You

Our promise to our buyers is to provide them with a home of enduring value.

Once we defined our passion and our promise, we knew we needed to surround ourselves with a great team that shares these values. The world does not need another average home builder. Our buyers deserve and will receive a great experience not only from us as leaders, but from everyone who represents Merit Homes, Inc.