The choice to make the move to a tiny house was financially motivated for Justine Wilson but she’s found the advantages to be many more than just easing cost of living pressures. She spoke to us about swapping a four-bed terrace in Sydney’s Birchgrove for a 12m x 2.2m container home on the Hawkesbury River.
The 39-year-old has been running her own property styling business for almost 14 years but the last three years have been particularly tough, seeing a 50% drop in revenue each year. The pandemic, labour and stock shortages and more recently, the relentless interest rate hikes, have all contributed. “They’ve pretty much brought the real estate market to a screeching holt since they started,” she says.