MAKAR Homes suit a range of buyers from individuals to developers, rural estates and local authorities.

• Optimising health, light and space, these homes are wonderfully suited to buyers of individual homes, keeping costs low throughout the build and the building's life.

• They are ideal for local authorities looking for low carbon, low energy terraced council and affordable housing.

• They are well-suited to communities looking to purchase individual or multiple homes.

• With rapid assembly and low build costs, even in remote areas, these homes are also perfectly suited to developers, estates and companies looking to house rural families and workers.

Find out more about our Signature and Optima home ranges, or our mixed Housing Developments.

Most of our projects to date have been across Scotland, but we can also deliver throughout the UK and Ireland, including the Highlands and Islands. We are fully equipped to manage projects in various locations, ensuring the same high standards of quality and efficiency. Our off-site construction and rapid assembly process is a key factor in this.

The location of your site in relation to our Inverness HQ will impact transport and labour costs, though most other costs will remain unaffected. Regardless of where your site is, we are committed to delivering exceptional service and craftsmanship.

We have significant experience in delivering certified Passivhaus.

All of MAKAR’s timber-rich, eco homes, including our affordable home designs, embrace Passivhaus principles as a benchmark of quality, energy efficiency, health and comfort. MAKAR homes achieve the majority of the Passivhaus criteria with our panel system, which we have been developing over the last two decades. To obtain certified Passivhaus our homes would require site-specific PHPP calculations that consider factors such as house orientation and altitude, which we do not do as standard. Designs and specifications may require adjustment to meet the Passivhaus criteria.

The Scottish Government are set to implement the Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard, unveiling a timetable to introduce these revised standards in 2026, which will become mandatory from 2028. MAKAR Homes already this standard.

As regulations tighten to meet climate goals, properties like MAKAR homes that already meet these standards will retain their value and desirability, making them future-proof investments. For developers, public authorities, and private buyers alike, it’s a sensible choice with a long-term payoff.

You can find out more about what Passivhaus means here and in our blog ‘A Passivhaus approach to affordable homes in Scotland’.

MAKAR have delivered over 250 homes throughout the UK, all of them designed to sequester and store carbon. Over 10 years ago the University of East Anglia carried out independent research from the on four MAKAR terraced (2-bed) homes and confirmed that these MAKAR homes were carbon negative on delivery when carbon sequestration was taken into account.

MAKAR homes have 27% lower embodied carbon than standard timber frame houses and 39% lower than brick-built Passivhaus equivalents. The research indicated the relative up-front embodied carbon of a four person two bed home to be around 26 tonnes, and, amazingly, each progressive timber-derived home was able to lock up 38 metric tonnes of sequestrated carbon. With approximately one tonne of CO2 stored per cubic metre of timber, these homes actively remove carbon from the atmosphere.

The full picture of ongoing emissions and therefore running costs of the home is also startling; for these four-person two-bed home, costs spread over a year came to around £5 / week of non-fossil-derived energy input for comfort.

In general, the first five Design stages can take approximately 6-9 months, including the development of your design and going through the Planning and Building Warrant consents. You will find the step by step process in our brochure.

A MAKAR house typically goes through production in 8-16 weeks. On-site assembly of the prefabricated panels is typically undertaken in 5-10 days, and our teams will then stay on site for a further 6 weeks to ensure that the external shell is 100% wind and watertight. Internal fit-out time depends on your location and availability of local contractors, but this typically take 15-20 weeks after the shell is complete.

This compares favourably to traditional UK construction, which takes around 41–49 weeks for the build phase alone (Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/12/8/1177)

Using Passivhaus software we are able to model the likely energy requirements for space heating, based very accurately on the MAKAR system – down to the number of screws in the walls.

Modelled heating bills for our 2-bed Paradigm Home in Inverness are just £5.74 per week.

Energy bills will vary according to your own habits, your site conditions and the design of your home. According to the UK government a typical UK three-bed house will use over 15,000 kWh of energy per year on heating, lighting and cooking whereas a typical MAKAR three-bed will require just over 3,000-4000 kWh per year.