HIGH DEMAND for TINY “HOME-OFFICES”

There has been a spike in the demand for tiny houses according to the Global Tiny Homes Market 2020 Industry Research Report.

Driving forces:

• Downsizing. A lot of people fear for their financial stability and have decided to downsize. In turn, this has motivated many Americans to get out of dense, crowded cities like New York and Los Angeles and live in tiny houses located in more isolated locations.
• Separate Office Space. There’s also demand for tiny homes for rent coming from homeowners looking for more space to quarantine away from their main home. Furthermore, many want to build ADUs as home offices since working from home will be a reality in the future.

The maker of this $118,500 tiny home on wheels that was designed to work from home during the pandemic saw a huge spike in interest this year.

• Build Tiny saw an increase in domestic demand “with urgent need” during the coronavirus pandemic, the company’s director and designer Gina Stevens told Business Insider in an email interview.
• The home has a bathroom, kitchen, living room, lofted office, and lofted bedroom.
• In terms of pet amenities, the interior has a cat door in the bathroom and a cat bridge that connects the two lofts.

This tiny home on wheels took a total of 13 weeks to construct. “It was in March at the start of the pandemic where there was a lot of uncertainty, so the need for a home office was top of mind.”

The clients booked Build Tiny with interior requests like an office loft with a footwell, tall kitchen benchtops, a bi-folding front door, and a cat bridge, all of which can now be found inside the little mobile home.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, both tiny home rental companies and makers have seen a surge in interest.

Some tiny home builders have even seen demands double during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a blog on Mashviso, a self-described “real estate investment data analysis” company.

• The structure of the tiny home consists of a steel frame and corrugated aluminum cladding.
• The home’s trailer sits at a little over 26 feet long, almost 9 feet wide, and almost 14 feet tall.
• The cost is a little more than $118,490, not including solar equipment or solar storage.

The office loft comes with a long shared desk and two-floor chairs with a footwell area, all in front of a window for natural light.

All of the tiny home’s amenities are powered by a “full off-grid lithium solar setup,”. It also has a 16-amp connection point when the home doesn’t have to stay off-grid.

References:

The maker of this $118,500 tiny home on wheels that was designed to work from home in during the pandemic saw a huge spike in interest this year. (2020). Retrieved 7 December 2020, from https://www.businessinsider.com/tiny-home-wheels-designed-coronavirus-work-from-home-2020-11#now-back-to-cyril-10