Warranties, Lenders and Building Control

Why some lenders resist MMC and how to satisfy them

A modular home is still a home in law, but the systems that protect buyers and lenders were designed around traditional construction. If a warranty provider does not recognise your system or a lender will not lend against it, your buyers cannot get mortgages and you cannot sell. This book explains how to clear that wall in the right order. It covers what the law calls modular, the regimes you must satisfy, why lenders are cautious and how to answer the question of whether the building will last. You will see why the design freeze comes early, how permitted development and prior approval apply, and why building control is the permission that really bites. The contracts chapter covers paying for work you cannot yet stand on and responsibility for design. The book explains why the structural warranty is the whole game, alongside insurance, safety and tax, and ends with a checklist and the cost of failures such as an unmortgageable scheme. Next in this series: “Scaling With Offsite Manufacture”.

What’s inside

• The legal framework in plain English
• Permissions, licensing and planning
• The contracts, and what must be inside them
• Insurance, safety and your legal duties
• Tax treatment and choosing a structure
• Your compliance checklist
• Getting this wrong: what it actually costs

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