Would you buy a flat-pack home from Bunnings? DIY properties cost just $124,000 and can house a family of four – but there’s a catch
- The homes are sold in a range of sizes costing from $75,000 for two bedrooms
- Aspiring home owners who want a flat pack will need to move to New Zealand
- Insulation, security cameras and heat pumps all come included
- Bunnings in Australia aren’t selling the homes and it is unknown if they will
Bunnings Warehouse is selling flat pack homes with four bedrooms costing just $124,000 (AUD)
The homes are sold in a range of sizes, costing $75,000 for a two-bedroom 60sqm home to $124,124 for a four-bedroom 106sqm property.
But aspiring home owners who want to snatch up the bargain property will have to move to New Zealand as the homes are not yet available in Australia.
Bunnings Warehouse is selling flat pack homes with four bedrooms costing just $124,124
The homes are sold in a range of sizes, costing $75,000 for a two-bedroom 60sqm home to $124,124 for a four-bedroom 106sqm property
Bunnings New Zealand have sold 50 of the flat pack homes as part of their Clever Living Co range in the past year.
The homes can be designed and built off-site before being transported to the right address.
Alternatively, the components of the home can be delivered as a kit before being put together by a builder.
Buyers can choose from five templates, with ‘the Angus’ – a three-bedroom and two-bathroom house – as the popular pick costing about $214,000.
Bunnings claim a three-bedroom home can be completed within six to eight weeks.
Insulation, security cameras and heat pumps also come included.
Aspiring home owners who want to snatch up the bargain property will have to move to New Zealand
Insulation, security cameras and heat pumps also come included
Bunnings New Zealand general manager Toby Lawrence told Stuff that the store was quietly selling the flat packs as it wants to test the market.
Mr Lawrence said the properties were a cheaper alternative for those struggling to become home owners.
Simon Hinds, a Kapiti Coast builder in New Zealand’s lower north island, has built 21 flat pack homes in the past 18 months.
Christchurch builder Richard Tent has been receiving at least two flat pack building enquiries a week.
The homes are not yet being sold in Bunnings stores in Australia and is unknown if the company will plan on selling the properties.
The homes are not yet being sold in Bunnings stores in Australia and is unknown if they company will plan on selling the properties