New BC Rules May Let You Add a Home to Your Lot: What SSMUH Means on the Coast
The rules about what you can build may have changed If you own a home on the Sunshine Coast, the rules about what you can build on your lot may…
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Your Sunshine Coast Building Permit, Step by Step
You have found the lot. You have a sense of which home fits. Somewhere between “I’d love to live here” and “the keys are in my hand” sits a step…
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Rezoning or a Variance? What to Do When Your Coast Lot’s Zoning Almost Fits
You found the lot. You picked the home. Then the zoning check comes back with a “yes, but” — the use is fine but the setback is tight, or the…
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What’s Actually on Your Lot’s Title? Covenants, Easements, and Rights-of-Way Before You Build
You can walk a Sunshine Coast lot, love the view, and picture exactly where the home should sit. But the lot has a second life on paper, in the land…
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Roof Pitch: The Line That Makes a House Look Like a Home
Of all the choices you make on a new home, roof pitch is one of the few that shapes how the house looks from the very first glance – and…
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BC Is Building a Fast Lane for Factory-Built Homes — What It Means for the Coast
Something significant is happening in British Columbia’s approach to housing: the Province is actively building a faster path for factory-built homes. This month, B.C. rolled out a digital tool –…
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B.C. Is Betting on Factory-Built Homes — What That Means for a Sunshine Coast Build
When a government wants homes built faster, you might expect it to focus on the construction site. British Columbia is doing something different: it is putting a remarkable amount of…
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Do Modular Homes Hold Their Value? Resale and Appraisal on the Sunshine Coast
It is one of the first questions people ask us, often before they have even picked a floor plan: “If I put a modular home on my Sunshine Coast lot,…
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Built for the New Coastal Summer: How a Modern Modular Home Handles the Heat
A heat wave that broke century-old records For a long time, a Sunshine Coast summer meant cracking a window at night and forgetting about it. That is changing. On June…
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Mobile, Manufactured, or Modular? What the Labels Really Mean on the Sunshine Coast
Spend an afternoon shopping for a factory-built home and you will run into three words used as if they mean the same thing: mobile, manufactured, and modular. They do not….
