Residential construction is the building of individual and multi-family dwellings. The market fragments into single-unit, manufactured, duplex, quad-plex, and apartments and condominiums. The construction varies primarily in the size and scale of the operations. A residential building provides more than half of its floor area for dwelling purposes. In other words, the residential building provides sleeping accommodation with or without cooking or dining or both facilities.

It is the process of constructing a house when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside there with living accommodations and the size, and designs differ upon the wealth of the person. Environmental and culture also play a major role in home construction.