What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes

Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes by funkaster on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:57PM (#26420034)

We're just going now through the process of building a new house. Land is around 10% of the overall budget (and this is a really sought after area in CA).

We did a lot of research and we were initially thinking of prefab for our home, but we finally decided to go for full custom design. In the end, prefab can really make some costs more predictable, at the cost of some flexibility in the design. Cost-wise, it was almost the same (for our case) but construction would've been faster and more probably more controlled in terms of budget.

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Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes by alisonkisk on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:53AM (#26420735)

This can't be true unless you are building a tall super fancy mansion with no yard space.

The land for a SFH inna "sought after area" is at least $300K and probably much more.

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Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes by lotsofpulp on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:36AM (#26423346)

My experience is 40%+ in high demand areas. Even in a low demand area, land cost is expected to be 20%+, and this was pre Covid. I imagine it’s much higher now.

https://www.nahbclassic.org/generic.aspx?genericContentID=26...

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Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes by funkaster on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:14PM (#26442556)

200k land (1 acre in Tahoe area), roughly below 2MM construction. 10% might be lowballing, prob it will end close to 15%.

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Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes by gassit on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:52AM (#26421082)

Can you provide some more details? 10% of the overall budget sounds incredibly low.

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