Rooted in the Neighborhoods We Build
We find the land, lead the architects and engineers who design each home, build it ourselves, and stay on the block after the keys change hands. One local team, start to finish, and still here when you call.
Built by People Who Care
We started Olsen Anderson in 2016 with a basement apartment and a gutted house in Phinney Ridge. Nights and weekends, borrowed tools. Longtime friends and University of Washington graduates, we came at this from the same place.
Grant grew up in commercial fishing, on boats his family built and ran in the Bering Sea, where the work holds up or it doesn’t. Aegir grew up around his father’s shop in Port Townsend, watching wooden sailboats take shape by hand. Boats don’t forgive shortcuts. Homes shouldn’t either.
That first project set the tone: if your name is on the work, you stand behind it. We still build on the blocks where we started. We own and manage homes on the same streets, and we still pick up the phone after closing.
We are founder-led and locally run. Decisions get made by people who walk the jobsite and live in this city, and we weigh them by what is right for the block and the people who will live there, not by what looks good on a quarterly report.
Aegir Olsen & Grant AndersonFounders & Managing Partners
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Good Homes Make Good Streets
A new home should work for the people who live in it and for the block it joins.
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Build where life already happens
We choose sites close to parks, shops and transit, so new homes add to blocks that already work.
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Respect the neighbors
We study each block’s scale and materials before design starts. During construction we keep sites tidy and answer when a neighbor calls.
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Stand behind every home
A home orientation at move-in, one person to call, an Anniversary Refresh visit, and a written warranty we honor. The team that built your home is the team that answers.
How Can We Help?
Every project touches homebuyers, neighbors, landowners, and the people who build it with us. Here is where to start.
Buying a home
Townhomes and houses across Seattle, built to a written standard and backed after you move in.
See homes for sale →Living next door
A question about a project on your block? Reach the team building it, not a call center.
Contact the project team →Own land
Sell, develop, partner, or build. We will tell you which one fits, including when the answer is to sell.
See your four options →Have plans to build
Drawings or a permit in hand? We build as your general contractor, with the same crews and standard as our own work.
How building with us works →Trade partners
Clear scopes, a steady pipeline, and a superintendent who knows the plans.
Work with us →Careers
A culture of ownership and the full development cycle, from first sketch to final walkthrough.
See open roles →The Olsen Anderson Way
Five steps. The same five whether the capital is ours or a client’s, whether the home gets sold or held.
Find the block
We buy land in neighborhoods worth staying in, not wherever the math happens to work this quarter. Walkable, established, close to the things that make a day easy. If a site does not clear that test, no amount of margin makes it a good project.
Design for the life
We start with the person who will live there. How they spend a Tuesday. Where the groceries land. What they will wish they had in year five. Then the home gets built around that, instead of the floor plan being drawn first and the life fitted into it afterward.
Build to the Standard
One team from land to keys: developer, builder, and general contractor under one roof. The work is held against the Olsen Anderson Standard, which sets out in writing what done right means, with gates that have to be cleared before the job moves on. Nothing advances because someone is in a hurry.
Hand over the keys
Delivered complete. A walkthrough of your own home, how everything works and how to care for it, and no outstanding punch list items at handover. Whether the person taking the keys is a buyer, a client, or a resident at lease-up, the standard for finished is the same.
Stand behind it
The warranty year and the Anniversary Refresh. Homes we hold, we keep caring for. And a phone that still answers in year ten, whether the question is a repair, a remodel, or what to do before a resale. We own homes on the same blocks we build, so leaving was never really an option.
The Principles That Guide the Work
- Own the Outcome: we make the call, stand behind it, and fix what’s ours to fix.
- Build with Precision: written specs, visible assumptions, and work checked before we call it done.
- Think Beyond the Lot: every home is part of a street and a neighborhood, and we design for both.
- Lead the Charge: we raise the hard issue early and move first on solving it.
- Raise the Standard: each community should be better built than the last.
Operators, Start to Finish
Every Olsen Anderson project, our own or a client’s, is run by the people below. No layers, no hand-offs to a different company at the property line.
Aegir Olsen
Founder & Managing Partner
Aegir carries the vision for the company: the direction of Olsen Anderson, its capital and investor relationships, and its land strategy: where the firm builds next and how it grows. He grew up in the trades, working hands-on alongside his father building boats and homes from the time he could walk, and went on to earn a construction management degree from the University of Washington. Across his career he has managed more than $500 million of development and construction, including ground-up projects for another Northwest developer before co-founding the firm. Since 2016 he has grown Olsen Anderson from a single gutted house in Phinney Ridge into a vertically integrated developer, builder, and general contractor building across Seattle’s established neighborhoods. A former UW pole vaulter, he now races sailboats internationally, and still walks every jobsite.
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Grant Anderson
Founder & Managing Partner
Grant carries the vision for the product and its execution: what an Olsen Anderson home is, and how it gets built. He runs delivery across every active project, from preconstruction budgets, crews, and trade partnerships through closing and the Anniversary Refresh walkthrough, and the systems that keep the standard consistent from home to home. He grew up in a commercial fishing family that built and operated its own boat in the Bering Sea, where the work either holds up or it doesn’t, and you answer for it either way. A University of Washington graduate who has been building across Seattle for more than a decade, he has led delivery on every home Olsen Anderson has completed since 2016.
Jerri Harden
CFO
Jerri leads finance across the company: capital administration, investor reporting, and the financial discipline lenders and investors count on. She brings deep experience in real estate and investment finance.
Amanda Chapman
Controller
Amanda leads accounting operations: monthly close, project reporting, and the financial controls behind every construction start. Her background spans corporate accounting and construction finance, and she recently led the modernization of our accounting platform.
Bill Classon
Director of Site Operations
Bill leads site operations, from preconstruction readiness through roof-on. He brings 36 years of experience across development, construction, and real estate, from hospitals and retail centers to residential communities, and is OSHA 40 certified. He’s worked in every state except Alaska, and his working motto says the rest: “Pace, but never stop.”
Nikki Provost
Experience Manager
Nikki leads the homeowner experience from the first conversation to life in the home: tours, selections and upgrades, navigating financing, closing, a one-on-one home orientation, and warranty support after move-in. She has been a licensed Washington real estate broker for more than 20 years and has spent more than a decade leading sales, marketing, and customer care for Seattle-area homebuilders. Buyers have one person to call at every step.
Jennifer Rowe
Preconstruction Manager
Jennifer runs preconstruction across every active project: estimating, bid packages and buyout, trade partner relationships, contracts, and document control, so each job starts with the right scope, the right partners, and a budget that holds through closeout. She brings more than 13 years of purchasing for Seattle-area homebuilders, including seven as a purchasing manager, where she built vendor onboarding, contract management, and master specification systems.
More About How We Work
What kinds of homes does Olsen Anderson build?
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Why does one team develop, build, and stand behind each home?
Do you design the homes yourselves?
What is The Olsen Anderson Standard?
- We stand behind it: an orientation, a point of contact, an Anniversary Refresh walkthrough, and a one-year builder warranty.
- Layouts that work: a flex room, real storage, and bedroom separation.
- Outdoor space you will use: a roof deck, yard, or balcony on every home.
- Systems that keep up: air conditioning, fiber, in-home laundry, and EV-ready electrical.
- Finishes that last: engineered oak, quartz, soft-close cabinetry, and exteriors built for the weather here.
- Neighborhood fit: scale, materials, and massing that read the street.
What happens after I move in?
Where do you build?
I own land. Can Olsen Anderson help?
How do trade partners and suppliers work with you?
Are you hiring?
How do I reach you?
Let’s Talk About What You’re Planning
Buying a home, selling land, or looking for a team to build and stand behind a project. Tell us where you are and the right person will follow up.