A Second Home on Your Block — In Months, Not Years.
A granny flat is a small building with a full-sized approval process behind it. Modular handles the building; we handle everything around it — what your block allows, the council pathway, footings and services, and the day the module lands.
A Rare Perfect Fit
Small Footprint = Factory's Strength
A granny flat is close to a single standard module — the format factories are set up to repeat. Less bespoke fabrication means fewer variables and a tighter price.
Your Yard Stays Liveable
This one matters more than people expect: you are living on site throughout. Most of the build happens in a factory, so months of trades in your backyard compress into site works and one install day.
A Small Budget Has No Slack
On a project this size there is no contingency to absorb a run of variations. A fixed factory contract locks most of the cost before work starts, which is worth more here than on a large build.
From Backyard to Handover — Our Pathway
01 Block & Rules Check
Whether your allotment can take a second dwelling at all: available space, street or side access for delivery, easements, and what your council and zone require of a secondary dwelling.
02 Siting & Design
Where it sits relative to the existing house — private open space, overshadowing, parking and privacy are what these applications usually turn on, not the building itself.
03 Compliant Modular Design
Manufacturer selection against the approved drawings, with inspection checkpoints written into the factory build schedule rather than added afterwards.
04 Approvals & Site Works
Consents, footings, and service connections to the new dwelling — sequenced to finish the week the factory does, not after it.
05 Install & Handover
Crane access through a lived-in property is its own problem. We plan the lift, the permits and the connections, then hand over a finished dwelling.
Rental Income, or Family — Usually Both
Most granny flats get built for one of two reasons: an ageing parent or an adult child who needs their own front door, or a second income from land you already own and already pay rates on. Either way the maths is sensitive to time — every extra month is a month of cost without the benefit. Our feasibility review puts the approval pathway, build programme and the numbers for your block in one place before you decide.
Granny Flat Feasibility Brief
A Small Build Still Needs a Real Manager.
A granny flat gets the same approval, engineering and contract discipline we run on multi-dwelling developments. The project is smaller; the ways it can go wrong are not.
The Five Questions People Ask First
Can I put a granny flat on my block?
Can I rent it out?
Does it need its own approval?
How long does the whole thing take?
Can it be separately titled and sold?
Find Out What Your Block Allows.
Before you shortlist a manufacturer or a floor plan, find out what your block and your council will actually approve. That is the cheapest step in the whole project.