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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 residential blocks in NSW can take a second dwelling. The real question is not whether, it is which approval path yours falls on.

• Two paths: a private certifier where the lot meets the standards, or council where it does not. Neither is a given until your address is checked.
• What decides it: lot size and shape, frontage, the space left around the building, and what is already on the block.
• What can complicate it: sewer mains, easements, a heritage or flood overlay, significant trees, or access to the rear.
• What it costs to find out: nothing. We check your address and tell you which path you are on before you spend anything.

About 12 weeks for the build itself, once approval is granted. That is an estimate, not a date, and the approval period sits before it.

• The 12 weeks is the on-site build: from the moment we can legally start work on your block to handover.
• Approval comes first and is not included: nothing starts on site until it is granted, and how long that takes depends on your block and the path it falls on.
• Why the build itself is short: once approved, site works and component production run at the same time instead of one waiting on the other, and there are fewer trade handovers to stall it.
• You get dated stages in writing: before you sign, so the estimate is something you can hold us to rather than a number on a website.
• Weather and access can move it: we will tell you when it does, not after.

Usually behind the house, positioned so that you and whoever lives in it are not on top of each other. We aim for a separate entry on every job, and the site visit tells us whether your block allows one.

• Privacy, both directions: window and door positions are set so it does not look into your living areas and you do not look into its. This is the thing owners ask about most and it is a design decision, not an afterthought.
• A separate entry is what we aim for: its own path in and its own private outdoor space, so nobody walks through your yard to get home. On a narrow block, or where a boundary or easement is in the way, it is not always possible. We will tell you which yours is before you commit, not after.
• What the site visit maps: setbacks, sewer lines, easements, trees, fall across the block and where your parking stays.
• Access: how components and machinery reach the back of the property. Worth knowing early, because it is the thing most often discovered late.

It stays. A second dwelling with an occupation certificate is part of the property, not something you take with you or unwind.

• It is part of the title: valued and sold with the house, like any other permanent structure.
• The paperwork goes with it: approval, occupation certificate, warranties and insurance documents transfer to the buyer.
• What a buyer is looking at: a house with a second dwelling already approved, built and, if you have let it, already tenanted.
• If you would rather not rent it: it is a permanent room set: family, guests, an office, or somewhere for a parent later.