Ecohomes Rangitikei

02/07/2025

LAND & BUILDING PACKAGE starting at $265K. We got asked by a client to subdivide her section in Marton so she could offer it for private sale, and we now have the consent to do that. She's certainly not being greedy about the value, so there's an opportunity here for someone to get into a brand new home with 415m2 of land at a very affordable price. See https://ecohomes.net.nz/land-and-building/ for more info.

02/07/2025

And so it begins. Our next generation Ecopod production is underway. This is a one bedroom 9.6m x 4m unit which is proving to be a popular size for granny flats or small secondary dwellings.

28/05/2025

Our Winter 2025 Villa design is now in, and we're working through the fine tunings and specifications for one and two bedroom units. Details are here: https://ecohomes.net.nz/ecovillas/ We're also starting production of our one bedroom Ecopods in the 2nd week of June, and have capacity to take orders for July delivery.

We produce transportable tiny homes and deliver them throughout the central and lower North Island.

12/12/2024

This was a bit of a moment, and very heartwarming to see how happy Tina and Nikki were to be on their new deck. Our builders, (Alannah, Jon and Billy [the dog]) were pretty pleased too with the results of the final Council inspection for our first ever accessible tiny home. The design allows for the hoist to go anywhere in the building, and it all works together as a unit seamlessly.

21/10/2024

We've market tested our pricing and now have 2 orders for our one bedroom units underway in the Manawatu, so we're working through the consent documents on those and getting production underway. That has given us the confidence to launch our Showhome Partner programme, so if you have some land or part of your section that would be suitable for a Showhome, and want to create a part-time business as our partner in your territory, then please click here to read more. https://ecohomes.net.nz/eco-showhomes/

26/09/2024

Very pleased to announce Tommys as our rental property manager for this project. You can apply here https://ecohomes.net.nz/rentals/ >

Tommys Property Management are handling the rentals we're building in Bulls township.

09/07/2024

These could be very useful for covered decks https://bit.ly/deckprotection

08/07/2024

Amorini just came through with our new tiny home kitchen design and we're liking it! It fits across the 3m end wall of the unit and is the most efficient use of space that we've come up with so far. There's more info here: https://ecohomes.net.nz/our-range/

01/07/2024

After reviewing materials and labour costs, we're pleased to say that we can keep the cost of our standard sleepout down to under 20K. It's now $18,500 ex our yard and including GST. Here's the elevations drawing of it, and some examples of units we've delivered recently. There's more info here https://ecohomes.net.nz/sleepouts/ .

19/06/2024

Best news I've read in years :-) sub 60sqm, no consent - same as Victoria did last year hopefully.

What exactly is being proposed, and how easy will it actually be to build a self-contained dwelling in the backyard? University of Auckland's Bill McKay has the answers.

18/06/2024

While our main focus in town now is our subdivision, we're still getting calls about our sleepouts and tiny homes - so we've just updated our website pages about those here https://ecohomes.net.nz/ and are offering a NEW ONSITE BUILDING SERVICE throughout the Manawatu and Whanganui.

11/06/2024

It looks like BULLS NEEDS RENTALS. There's never many on Trademe, and they're normally really expensive. For young people moving out of home here, there's not many places for them to go in this town, and Ohakea growing just adds more housing pressure. So I had a rental appraisal done on a two bedroom design we've got on file, and then an 'as built' valuation for the unit on the land we have, and the gross yield is around 9%. I'd like to develop around 10 dwellings on the land behind the shops in High St, and have got consent for similar size properties 2 doors up the road. I'm also thinking one bedroom units would help pensioners because there's not a lot out there for them either. It'll take quite a bit of dough to build these so am open to property investors either buying all or part of the proposed units at the appropriate time (we're working on a part ownership system with our lawyers at the moment), and if you'd like to register your interest, just send us a message.