First home buyers
A Paragon home is warm, certified and finished — for less than the same house built on site, and in months rather than years. Put it on family land or on your own piece of dirt, and the ladder starts a rung lower than you think.
Two ways in
The fastest way in, and the one most of our first-home buyers take.
A minor dwelling behind the family home. No section to buy, services often already at the boundary, and in most South Island districts no subdivision needed. You own the home; the land stays theirs until you are both ready for that conversation.
A section and a finished home, priced as one number.
Buy the land, we handle everything that happens on it — consent, engineering, piles, services, transport, craning and connection. One programme, one contact, one fixed figure your lender can actually assess.
Finance
Most of the friction in financing a transportable home is that the lender has never seen one. We will introduce you to the Kiwibank team we work with, who have — they know what NZS 3604 certification means, how progress payments run on an off-site build, and what documentation makes an application straightforward rather than an argument.
We are builders, not financial advisers. We make the introduction and provide the build documentation — rates, eligibility, approval and everything else are entirely between you and the lender.
Your first home
Model Two · on family land
Mortgages
Most first-home buyers are told "the bank will not lend on that", usually by someone who has never tried. They will — but a transportable build draws down differently from a house being built on your section, and knowing that up front is most of the battle.
Ask for the introductionWe are builders, not financial advisers. We make the introduction and provide the build documentation — rates, eligibility, approval and everything else are entirely between you and the lender.
How it runs
One
What you have got, where it could go, and roughly what it costs. Twenty minutes on the phone.
Two
If finance is the next hurdle, we put you in touch with the Kiwibank team and send them the build documentation they will ask for.
Three
Home, transport, foundations and connections in one itemised figure. Nothing moves after it is signed.
Four
Built under cover in Ohoka, delivered finished, levelled and connected. You move in, not in six months.
10-year structural guarantee
On every home we build
12-month build warranty
Workmanship, from handover
NZS 3604:2011
Timber-framed buildings standard
Contract Works insurance
In place for the whole build
Licensed Building Practitioner · New Zealand owned & operated
Design & consent documentation 
Our architectural designer Restricted building work Owned and built here Where most first homes land
A second bedroom is an office, a spare room, and eventually a nursery. It is also the difference between a home you sell in four years and one you keep.
A bit of family land, a deposit, a section you are looking at, or nothing yet but a number in KiwiSaver. The first call is the same either way, and it is free.
Handcrafted from North Canterbury. Fixed pricing, no hidden costs. Talk to Luke about your build.
