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Tiny Home Loans

Tiny Home Loans and Tiny House Finance in New Zealand

Home Now Finance provides specialist tiny home loans for new and used tiny homes, cabins and relocatable dwellings across New Zealand. Unlike a conventional mortgage, we structure finance around the dwelling itself, which opens the door for buyers who don’t own the land it’s going on.

Found a home already? We’ll walk you through the deposit, documentation and next steps.

How a Tiny Home Loan works

A tiny home loan is specialist finance for purchasing a tiny house, cabin or relocatable dwelling, built for exactly the kind of purchase a standard bank mortgage isn’t designed for, especially where the dwelling is movable or the land belongs to someone else.

The tiny home itself forms part of the security. Land ownership stops being the only route into finance.

Homes and Dwellings We Finance

  • new tiny homes
  • used and pre-owned tiny homes
  • cabins
  • relocatable homes
  • self-contained portable dwellings
  • homes from approved suppliers and sellers

Tell us exactly what you’re looking at, and we’ll confirm it fits.

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Why choose HomeNow Finance?

Financing a Home Without Owning the Land

You don’t need to own the land to finance a tiny home. If the home is going onto family land or someone else’s property, we’ll help you and the landowner get the right acknowledgement sorted before the loan advances.

That opens the door for people planning to live:

  • on parents’ or children’s land
  • on wider family land
  • within a papakāinga or whānau housing arrangement
  • on land occupied under another approved arrangement

Tiny Home Loan Deposits

Your deposit depends on the purchase price, the finance product, the supplier, and your own profile. We assess affordability the same way for every purchase price, so you get a genuine answer, not a guess based on the sticker price.

Loan Terms

We offer terms built around your application. A longer term lowers your regular repayment; a shorter term reduces the total interest you pay.

Financing Used Tiny Homes and Cabins

We finance eligible used tiny homes and cabins. This is particularly useful for buyers looking at pre-owned or ex-hire stock, where the price is usually lower than a new build.

We assess age, condition, identification details, seller and value as part of every application. If you’re still shopping, our sister business CabinsNow lists pre-owned and ex-hire cabins and tiny homes for sale across New Zealand.

How the Application Process Works

Who We Lend To

Individuals buying for their own residential use, couples, joint applicants, first home buyers, people downsizing, people planning to live on family land, and buyers of new or used relocatable dwellings. Every application goes through the same lending and affordability assessment, so you know exactly where you stand.

What We Actually Look At

Income. Enough to cover the proposed repayments alongside your normal living costs.

Existing debt. Credit cards, vehicle finance, personal loans, mortgages, and other regular commitments.

Credit history. We look at how you’ve managed credit, alongside everything else in your application.

Deposit. Reduces the amount you need to finance, and can open up better options.

The dwelling. Price, age, condition, supplier, seller, location.

The land. If you don’t own it, we’ll help confirm how you’re able to place and occupy the home there.

Tiny Home Loans for First Home Buyers

A tiny home is a genuinely lower-cost way into ownership than a conventional house and section. We’ll help you weigh up the land arrangement, council requirements, site services, delivery costs and insurance alongside the purchase price, so the full picture is clear from day one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, we specialise in exactly this kind of lending.

It works a little differently. A standard mortgage is generally secured against land or real property, whereas our tiny home finance can take security over the dwelling itself.

Yes, with formal landowner permission and documentation we can help you put it together. Council, planning, building and site requirements sit with you, your supplier and your landowner to confirm.

Yes, joint applications are common.

Often, yes, subject to our current lending policy.

It depends on the product and your circumstances. We’ll disclose your actual rate and total cost of borrowing before you enter any loan.

Some fees apply, including for establishment, administration, early settlement and late payments. See our Disclosure page for the current details.

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