Granny flats becoming easier to build, opening gateway into property investment
Granny flats, Fonzie flats, secondary dwellings; whatever you want to call them, some councils are overhauling what were previously restrictive rules, making it easier now to build one.
Granny flats can be an economical way for homeowners to become property investors. (Image source: Shutterstock.com)
By now most people realise the only way Australia is going to come anywhere close to fixing its housing crisis is to create more housing.
It sounds pretty simple, and it is – or it would be if we weren’t still struggling through the Covid-induced, material shortages, a lack of available tradespeople and the collapse of major construction companies.
Many builders were burned during Covid, forced to deliver on fixed-price contract projects that w…
