Investments
A home you can move, price up front and finish in months rather than years is a genuinely different kind of asset. Here is what people actually do with them.
The easy part
Most people who want a second dwelling never build one, and it is almost never the money that stops them. It is the thought of finding an engineer, chasing a drainlayer, booking a crane and losing eighteen months of weekends to it.
So we removed that part. You approve a fixed price and a programme. We do the consent, the ground, the services, the transport, the crane, the connections and the landscaping. You get progress photos in your portal and a phone call when there is something to decide.
The next time you stand on that land, there is a finished home on it.
Why the numbers work
A warm, certified, self-contained home rents. A sleepout does not.
Because it arrives finished and connected, there is no six-month gap between spending the money and earning anything back. Long-term tenants, short-stay guests or family paying board — the home does not care which, and you can change your mind later.
The build happens while your section is still empty.
Everything except the ground work happens in Ohoka, under cover, at the same time as your consent and foundations are going through. Time on your land is measured in days. That is years of holding costs you simply never pay.
Fixed price, itemised, before a single thing is ordered.
No provisional sums that quietly grow, no variations arriving by email in month nine. Your lender gets one figure and one progress-payment schedule, which is exactly what makes these straightforward to finance.
Sell it, keep it, or put it on a truck.
Almost no building can be relocated. This one can. If the family changes, the market turns or the land gets sold, the home is still yours and it can go somewhere else — which is a genuinely different risk profile to a slab on the ground.
Add a home to land you already own.
The most common place people start. A minor dwelling behind the main house, on the back of a rural block, or at the end of the drive — rented out, or kept for family who need somewhere of their own.
Turn one title into two, with a home already on it.
A section is worth more with a finished, certified home on it than as bare dirt. Because we build to NZS 3604 and deliver complete, a new title can go to market ready to live in rather than ready to build on.
One home, one section, one number.
We will work alongside you or your agent to pair the right model with the right piece of land, and price the whole thing as a single fixed figure — home, transport, foundations and connections included.
An architectural home earns more than an ordinary one.
Guests book a place they cannot get anywhere else. A well-sited, well-designed home in a beautiful part of the South Island is a different proposition to another beige unit — and it stays yours to use.
Housing for towns and businesses that need it now.
Small townships, farms, orchards, vineyards and camps all need warm, compliant accommodation and cannot wait two years for it. We build in multiples and deliver to a schedule you can plan around.
The site nobody else can build on.
Remote, steep, coastal, alpine. The places that make a holiday home worth owning are the places conventional building hates. Ours arrive finished, which is exactly why they work there.
First home buyers
A Paragon home is often the way onto the ladder that actually works — a warm, NZ3604-certified home for less than the equivalent build on site, on land you already have access to or are buying with family.
Full project management
Not just the home. Consent, engineering, foundations, transport, craning, plumbing, power, drainage, decking and landscaping — scheduled, contracted and coordinated by us, on one programme, with one person answering the phone.
Every extra party you have to chase yourself is another way the timeline slips and the number moves. So we do not hand you a list of trades to ring. We ring them.
You get your own client portal Your programme, your selections, your progress photos and every document in one place — so you always know exactly where your build is up to.
Coordinated through
Connect
Owned by Paragon Portables
Second dwelling
Consented · on programme
Full project management
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
Paragon Portables builds homes; we are not financial advisers and nothing on this page is financial advice. Rental income, resale values and tax treatment depend on your situation, your district and your lender — talk to your own adviser before you commit.
Whether it is one dwelling out the back or ten across a township, the first call is the same — what the site allows, what it costs, and how long it takes.
Handcrafted from North Canterbury. Fixed pricing, no hidden costs. Talk to Luke about your build.
