Finance Options
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.
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.

