🏠 What is the modular home vs stick built price difference?

As Trey Miller from Future Homes explains, traditional stick-built homes are dying while modular homes take over the market. People outside the industry often confuse modular with manufactured, but as Trey Miller puts it, that is not really a comparison nowadays. Modern modular homes compete directly with custom stick builders on quality while crushing them on price and speed. Use this calculator to see your potential savings.

Modular homes are built in factories with extreme efficiency and a highly controlled workforce. This minimizes waste and typically results in a 10% to 15% price advantage over traditional custom stick builders, without sacrificing structural quality.

As Trey Miller notes, people aren't comparing them to manufactured homes very often. They compete with stick builders, and are usually beating them by at least 10% to 15% price-wise while doing it faster. You still get standard features like 2x6 exterior walls and all-plywood cabinets, just at a significantly better price.

Time is money. Because you can develop your land on-site while the house is simultaneously being built in the factory, the timeline is moved way forward. Moving in faster means saving potentially thousands of dollars in rent or high-interest construction loan payments.

As Trey Miller notes, the good thing is you can start building this house in the factory and developing your land, often without a building permit. As soon as you have all that done, you can set the house with the crane, moving the timeline way forward versus doing a stick-built home because you can do more things at the same time.