20 m² of room out the back. From $39,990.

No. The number covers the building and the work to put it up, and the parts that depend on your block are quoted separately, in writing, before you commit to anything.

• What the price includes: the precision-engineered components and the on-site build on a standard site, with standard service connections.
• What is quoted separately: approval costs, plus anything your block needs beyond a standard site. These are the ones that genuinely differ block to block, so we price them after we have seen yours rather than guessing.
• When you see the full number: before you sign. One written price, both parts, no allowances left open.
• What moves it after that: only a change you ask for.

Generally yes, and the reason is how it gets built. It goes up in stages on your block by a licensed builder, so lenders assess it as ordinary residential construction.

• Why that matters: a building fixed to your land is treated differently to a transportable or a chattel purchase. Keeping the work on site is what keeps it financeable the normal way.
• How the money flows: progress payments at stages, the same as any other build.
• What the bank wants to see: the approval, the contract, and a licensed builder behind it. All three exist here.
• If you don't know where to start: ask, and we'll point you to a finance broker. We're not paid for the introduction and you're under no obligation to use them.
• What Rivela does not do: arrange, advise on or organise your finance. Your bank or broker does that. We give them the documents they ask for.

Most do. The Cabana is sized and built to sit inside the exempt limits, so on a typical residential block there is nothing to lodge — but the block has to meet them too.

• What decides it: at least 900 mm clear to every boundary, behind the building line, under 3 m high, and no more than two such structures already on the lot.
• What can complicate it: a heritage listing, a foreshore or environmentally sensitive overlay, a tight side setback, significant trees, or getting a crew and materials to the rear.
• If it falls outside: it doesn’t stop — it just needs an approval like any other structure, and we tell you which one before you commit.
• What it costs to find out: nothing. We check your address and confirm it in writing before you spend anything.

Approval costs, quoted per block, in writing, before you sign. The Cabana is a room rather than a second dwelling, so there is no kitchen, no bathroom and no plumbing to price.

No. The Cabana is one open room with no plumbing, and that is what keeps it at $39,990 and on a simpler approval pathway. If you want a kitchen and a bathroom you want a secondary dwelling - the Studio, from $129,000.

Usually not. In NSW a non-habitable garden structure of 20 m² or less can be exempt development — no DA, no complying development certificate, nothing lodged — provided it stays under 3 m high, sits at least 900 mm off every boundary and behind the building line, has no kitchen, bath or toilet, and isn’t on heritage, foreshore or environmentally sensitive land. The Cabana is built to those limits on purpose. Your block still has to meet them, so we check your address and confirm it in writing before you spend anything.

No. It is not a second dwelling and it is not approved as habitable space, so it cannot be a bedroom and it cannot be tenanted. It is a room: an office, a gym, a studio, a retreat. If renting it is the point, the Studio is the one to look at.