How would you like to buy and invest in a home that you can actually take with you anywhere you go? Isn’t that amazing?
A house that you can fold up and take with you when you move is for sale in Sydney’s north for less than the cost of most city units.
The three-pavilion getaway has all the usual requisites for comfortable living: sunny aspect, private bedrooms, cross-flow ventilation and to top it off a secluded waterfront location.
The bonus is this house can be packed up and reassembled elsewhere. And the price for all this is $360,000.
The relocatable pavilions at Marlow Creek on the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney.
The owners decided only recently not to haul it with them in their move to Byron Bay. Instead, they are selling their retreat, along with the 1.2-hectare site at Marlow Creek on the Hawkesbury River not far from Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton’s new getaway.
Hawkesbury River Real Estate selling agent Paul Muscat has had a rush of inquiries in the past few weeks. He makes a point of telling potential buyers that access is only by water.
“We’ve got interest. People want to inspect it but we have to work in with the tides,” Mr Muscat said.
Vintage caravan owner Felicity Young with her daughter, Zara Tallulah and Betsy, the Skyline Junior Bondwood.
Photo: Justin McManusThe level, north-facing site has a waterfall and permanent spring water. Its limited access means relocating the extraordinary house would require a barge or, as Domain writer Trisha Croaker suggests, a flotilla of tinnies.
The popularity of takeaway homes has never waned. Retro caravans sell quicker than hotcakes and since the glamping craze tents have become more luxurious each season.
In New Zealand, Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects designed a rollaway house for people on the move, if only metres away.
Open Sesame! The Hut on Sleds unfolding for habitation.
Photo: Photography by Jackie Meiring & Simon DevittThe 40-square-metre home, called The Hut on Sleds, rests on two timber logs near a shore on the Coromandel Peninsula. A large steering wheel can roll the house along its log platform.
While the main purpose of this ingeniously crafted structure was to close it up against New Zealand’s harsh elements, The Hut on Sleds can be rolled to different locations on the beachfront setting. It is takeaway, to a point.
From a simple closed timber box, the structure transforms to an open, sun-filled holiday haven where every nook and cranny has been used cleverly.
The Hut on Sleds locked up and ready to hibernate through the New Zealand winter.
Photo: Photography by Jackie Meiring & Simon DevittIn Amsterdam, the takeaway home is being proposed as an answer to the more serious issue of affordable housing, or lack of.
Dutch developer Heijman has been working on a mobile home concept targeted to the millennials – 25 to 35-year-olds, many of whom find it difficult to afford housing close to the city centres where they work.
The idea is to provide environmentally sustainable, moveable timber homes that can be set up in a day. The 46-square-metre prototype Heijman One, designed by Dutch firm Mood Builders, is being tested in Amsterdam for three months by a volunteer resident to find any snags in its design.
The first prototypes of Heijman One house being tested in Amsterdam.
Apart from the obvious aesthetic credentials of the project, it is where they are erected that makes all the difference in cost.
The idea is to use vacant and derelict land sites where construction has been stalled for one reason or another, perhaps awaiting approval for development. It’s a form of squatting, only the residents bring their own home.
They would pay a nominal rent of about €700 ($990) a month. That figure wouldn’t rent a poky bed-sit in most parts of Sydney.
The takeaway Heijman One houses designed by Mood Builders on vacant land in Amsterdam.
Heijman has plans to roll out 30 more takeaway homes across the Netherlands this year. Perhaps it could ship a few our way. Barangaroo could make a nice temporary neighbourhood.
Source: news.domain.com.au