![\"Granny](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/78fafbcf-34d5-4bc5-95fc-69d93fb1efb5.jpeg\")
Granny flats could be a new solution to the housing crisis for older Aussies. (Nine)<\/p>\nIrene Peel was adamant – she was not going into care.<\/p>\n
“Mum always said, ‘I’m not going into a nursing home’,” daughter Liz Flanjak told 9News.\ufeff<\/p>\n
\ufeffBut with house prices skyrocketing, her options were limited.<\/p>\n
Granny flats could be a new solution to the housing crisis for older Aussies. (Nine)<\/p>\n
The solution was a granny flat, just metres from her daughter’s house.<\/p>\n
“\ufeffIt’s a win-win for us because she’s close,” Flanjak said.<\/p>\n
Pooling resources as a family \ufeffis becoming increasingly common amid the nation’s housing crisis, according to Shane Windsor from Hoek Modular Homes.<\/p>\n
He said the most common request he gets is for two-bedroom granny flats with a kitchen and bathroom.<\/p>\n
“They’re combining resources as a family to essentially utilise the land that the family already owns\ufeff,” Windsor said.<\/p>\n
This year, “dual living” is in the top 10 most searched keywords on real estate site Domain.<\/p>\n
“Dual living, I think, is something that is on the rise,” Dr Nicole Powell from Domain said.<\/p>\n
“For first-time buyers trying to break into the housing market, it is challenging.<\/p>\n
“It might be adult children living at home for much longer.”<\/p>\n
Developers are also tapping into the dual-living trend with some new duplex designs offering two homes under the one roof, separated by a central dividing wall.<\/p>\n
An eight-bedroom build could cost around $1 million, not including the land.\ufeff<\/p>\n
“\ufeffIt’s about people coming into the property market, and with the high cost of living, finding a solution which is more cost-effective,” Chris Thornton from G. J. Gardner Homes said.<\/p>\n
There are some things to be mindful of, though, including council regulations and legal implications of pooling financial resources.<\/p>\n
“To go too far down the process, without having considered what those rules will be, can be quite a waste of time and money,” Windsor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irene Peel was adamant – she was not going into care. “Mum always said, ‘I’m not going into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-160927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}