In the past few years Pac-Van has seen a trend in today's suburban real estate developments. Home builders are using highly customized modular offices to sell their high-dollar stick-built homes. There are a number of reasons that these traditionally opposing construction practices work very well together in these scenarios.

In these developments where property is the product, you need to be able to remove your sales office to sell that final lot. Companies that specialize in stick-built homes don't want to build a permanent structure and then have to tear it down. Having an office that can be removed easily, transported to the next crop of vacant lots, and reset in a very short amount of time is a huge advantage. It saves the developer substantially on man-hours and materials.

The techniques in traditional stick-built construction and modular construction are similar, but there are differences. Unless a general contractor is familiar with building in modules, they may not be able to construct their own modular building that can be conveniently disassembled and reassembled. The home builder may lose money if they build their own sales office, tear it down, and move it for each project because they are tying up their construction crews on work that is not directly driving revenue. Having a reputable modular building provider take on the project saves time, gets the job done efficiently, and typically costs less overall.

To promote sales, the office's exterior can be finished to match the development by the contractor, and the interior can be customized to showcase the designs and styles that are being used throughout the housing development. This minimizes the time investment for the home builder's labor force since they are only adding the finishing elements. A customized sales office facilitates the sales process, because the developer doesn't have to maintain a "show house" or schedule tours around current residents' schedules. This also showcases the quality of the home builder's product in a tightly controlled environment and enables the developer to generate revenue sooner because of the quick set up of the modular sales office.

Traditionally the modular and stick built industries are not the best bedfellows but for home builders in suburban developments, these two construction techniques blend very well to drive sales and revenue.