Pricing
Numbers before the meeting, not after it.
Nobody can price a building off a web page. These are the bands we work within, the things always in the rate, and the six points at which money changes hands.
Request an estimateRate bands
What building actually costs, per square metre.
Accra rates for 2026, for a plot with road access and a mains connection. A sloping site, a difficult founding stratum or a heritage constraint moves every one of these.
Shell & core, residential
Foundations, frame, envelope, roof and first-fix services. Excludes finishes, joinery and external works.
GHS 4,200 – 5,600 / m²
Turn-key residential
Everything above plus finishes, sanitary ware, fitted joinery, painting and the external works within the plot.
GHS 6,800 – 9,400 / m²
Commercial shell & core
Office, retail or light industrial to a tenant-ready shell, including risers, lift shafts and the incoming services.
GHS 5,400 – 7,200 / m²
Commercial fit-out
Partitions, ceilings, floors, casework and the services co-ordination inside an existing shell.
GHS 3,100 – 5,800 / m²
Renovation & remodelling
The widest band on this page, because a strip-out finds what a survey could not. Priced provisionally, then fixed after opening up.
GHS 2,400 – 6,500 / m²
Project management only
Where somebody else is building and we hold the programme, the valuations and the inspection regime.
4.5% – 7% of contract value
The small print
What is in the rate, and what is not.
Always included
Site set-up, hoarding, welfare and security
Setting out, and the surveyor who checks it
Cube testing and the certificates that go with it
Waste removal and the levy on it
As-built drawings and O&M manuals at hand-over
Ten-year structural warranty
Never included
Land, indenture and stamp duty
Architect's and engineer's design fees
District assembly permit fees (we obtain, you pay)
Utility connection charges from ECG and GWCL
Loose furniture and equipment
VAT and NHIL, shown separately on every valuation
Payments
How the money is drawn down.
Six valuations, each one signed off against work that is actually on the ground. No stage is payable before the previous one has been inspected.
15%
On signature and mobilisation
20%
Substructure complete
25%
Frame and roof complete
20%
Envelope watertight
15%
Finishes and services complete
5%
Released after the defects period
How we work
From brief to hand-over
01
Discovery & scope
We walk the site, read the drawings you already have, and write down what is in the contract and what is not.
02
Estimate & programme
A priced bill against a dated programme — materials, labour and prelims separated so you can see what moves.
03
Permits & safe plan
District assembly permit, EPA screening where it applies, and the site safety plan lodged before mobilisation.
04
Build & QA
Weekly look-aheads, photographed progress, cube tests and a snag list that is open to you the whole way through.
05
Final walk-through
Joint inspection, as-builts and O&M manuals handed over, and the ten-year structural warranty starts.
Contact us
Talk to our project team.
Ring, write or send the drawings. Somebody who has actually run a site will answer, and you will have a written response inside one working day.
Call the office
+233 30 274 1180
Email the team
build@mason.com
Site line, out of hours
+233 24 411 9020
Mon–Fri, 7:00–17:30
Head office
Sat, 8:00–13:00
Site visits
What to send us
Four things let us price a job properly rather than guess at it. If you only have one of them, send that one.
The plot, and whether you already hold the indenture
Drawings or a sketch — anything is better than nothing
The date you need the building working by
A budget range, even a wide one
Drawings stay with us. We do not share a client's documents.
Accra — head office
18 Spintex Road, Baatsona
Tema — joinery shop
Heavy Industrial Area
Kumasi — regional yard
Asokwa
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To a priced estimate
10 years
Structural warranty
