From Tiny Homes to $300k Price Jumps: What Mattered in Australian Property This Week
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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What challenges do tiny homes face in Australian property markets?
These tiny homes can be used as a main dwelling on a parcel of land. So long as you're checking with the council, that's key because you don't want people to come to you and they haven't done their homework because then you've got this completed project and you say, well, you know, we can't put that on your land because it doesn't comply. Yeah, exactly. It does surprise a lot of people. Typically, we do do these homes as a secondary dwelling and that's a lot easier in Victoria due to the planning exemption things in place at the moment. But it can always be done as main dwelling. We build these to a 1A standards according to the NCC. So, it's no different from building a normal house. You just got to do your planning permit application, check that you tick all the boxes and then it can be done through a standard building permit as a main primary dwelling.
Yeah, so the larger shipping containers that you are building with a 40 foot high cube. So I'll get you to just explain the high cube aspect because that is a higher height than normal. The fit out of these very much resembles a brand new home. Some people have the stigma, I think, when they think of a shipping container. Oh no, don't want to live in a shipping container. That's not me. It's too small. Yes, it is a small space, but it's horses for courses. If you want a smaller mortgage, this is an option. Yeah, you're definitely right. And a good point you mentioned there was the high cube container. A lot of people get caught out when they're trying to build a container home. They use a standard cube container, which is only 2.4 metres high.
So in our containers, we use a high Q container, which is 2.9 metres, and that means you can get an internal finish height of 2.6 metres, and that's where you can actually pass the NC rules as a 1A dwelling, where a lot of time you can't if you're just using a standard cube. Yeah, and then talking about the build quality of them, we build them like a normal home. We do not try and make these like a typical modular home that you used to see or a lot of builders are still building. We build them out of a timber frame plastered inside. So when you step inside, yes, they are a little bit narrower, but they're built and constructed just like your normal home you're living in. And as you mentioned, you have to sacrifice a bit of downsize to save more money.
But a lot of our clients, when they do walk in, especially our models that have the large windows and bolt-on outdoor areas, it is a lot more homely than most people think. And as soon as they inspect them, the stigma that they had in their head for so long goes away pretty quickly. In terms of the building code, these would be pretty tight, you know, in terms of the airflow, you've got air conditioners in them. Are they being built slightly above what is required by the code?
How are Walkerville units experiencing growth in the property market?
They sure are. Being a container, they're already completely sealed. So if you've got a standard brick and mortar home, you've got a lot of gaps in that. In our containers, we don't have that whatsoever. We also kind of go above and and beyond with the insulating qualities. Being a container, we make sure we do a moisture barrier, heavy earth, or we use underlay. So they're heavily insulated and very well-constructed. The idea is for these to last more than 100 years. And being a container that's meant to be able to see in corrosive water for 25 plus years, we see that not being an issue with our designs. Tell us if you've got an example where a mum and dad has come to you and said, look, we are just pulling our hair out.
We don't know what to do. This could be an option for us. They sit down, they go through the numbers, they talk to you. Suddenly it's an illumination. Yeah, definitely. And we're seeing it happen more and more often at the moment. We've even got one client we're about to start building for and they've done the same thing. They've just built a brand new home, but because it was a small parcel of land, the house size isn't massive.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:08
2
What challenges do tiny homes face in Australian property markets?
0:08–2:42
3
How are Walkerville units experiencing growth in the property market?
2:42–3:46
4
What impact does the RBA's rate hike have on Australian mortgages?
3:46–4:58
5
What factors are driving the surge in Gold Coast house prices?
4:58–9:10
6
How are parents supporting their children in the current housing market?
9:10–17:41
Speakers
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