Hirsilinna hirsitalot ja hirsimökit

Kauppalehti - the biggest economic newspaper in Finland had overly positive look on the future of log building in Finland. This resulted in 16% increase in stock price of Honka B-share. Increase is out of proportion because the ownership of Honka is very centralized and trade volume is low so few sales can rock the price greatly. On the other hand, Friday saw exceptionally high trade volume, totaling 25 million euros.

I am not as optimistic, I think that growth trend remains steady, but there will be increasing competition at every market area. Globally low interest rates have saturated house ownership market and while big domestic markets are saturated, the growth can be found from export markets. My take on the matter is that log home company can only be successful by excelling competition and eating market share. What do you think? You can check Honka financial information at Google Finance.

I got curious on what there is available on log mobile homes in the net. I made a search with Google like this “log mobile homes” and results were scarce only about 576 results. I started to wonder is it really so new an idea to have mobile home, which is made of logs?

In theory, the modular structure that log homes have makes it possible to put them into pieces and back together again – movable solution so to say. Difference with traditional mobile homes is that log mobile homes often stand alone from the ground, while traditional mobile homes have wheels under them at all times. This frequently gives difficulties for manufactured log home owners who want their log homes to be classified as log mobile homes.

So what about those search results? I found following results helpful:

http://www.house-uk.co.uk/
http://www.mobile-parkhomes.co.uk/

These two services seem to be most appropriate, however, looks like they belong under same umbrella, so no real competition between the two websites.

Rest of the sites that come up in the search are basically junk sites or then vaguely related like photographs or real estate sites that offer opportunities to own something. It appears that log mobile homes are really unique and new invention. Or maybe I should try to use different keywords. Maybe later.

Later is now (7th April 2006), slightly different view to log mobile homes comes in form of mobile log homes.