Massachusetts — statewide
Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, Home Improvement Contractor Program
In short
Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, Home Improvement Contractor Program issues 1 permit we publish for Massachusetts — statewide, last verified 2026-09-03. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Improvement Contractor Registrationonly if it applies to you | Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, Home Improvement Contractor Program | $250–$650 initial — a $150 fee plus a guaranty fund payment of $100 to $500 by headcount | 2 years | 2026-09-03 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Home Improvement Contractor Registration
Required of anyone who solicits, bids on or performs contracting work on an existing owner-occupied residential property of one to four units, which is most residential remodelling. The guaranty fund payment is separate from the fee and banded by staff: $100 up to three employees, $200 to ten, $300 to thirty and $500 above. Renewal is $100 every two years — but let it expire and you reapply from scratch at $150 plus the guaranty fund payment all over again, so lapsing can cost six times what renewing does. Paper applications and certified cheques are no longer accepted at all. A contractor trading under a name other than its own must supply the municipal business certificate, and an out-of-state company must complete foreign registration with the Secretary of the Commonwealth first.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts — statewide
- Phone
- (617) 648-2467
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Massachusetts — home improvement contractor registration and renewalMassachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
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- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Corporations Division
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- Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
- Massachusetts Department of Revenue
- Massachusetts Division of Standards, Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation
- Massachusetts Office of Public Safety and Inspections, Division of Occupational Licensure
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