The interest is real and growing, but we do not predict trends, and financing is what separates interest from execution. Most people asking about land are in affordable areas trying to get around high home prices: buy an inexpensive lot with a small down payment, build later. The catch is that raw land with no functional collateral value is hard to finance. Lenders commonly want somewhere in the range of 20% to 40% down on bare land, and it is often community banks, rather than mainstream mortgage lenders, making these loans at all. Land-loan terms vary widely and change, so confirm with local lenders. The cleaner build path is a one-time-close construction loan, which buys the lot and funds the build in a single transaction. Those exist through USDA, FHA, VA, and conventional programs. One friction point: many lenders that do one-time-close loans do not like manufactured or tiny homes, a shame given how much manufactured-home quality has improved, so that plan requires finding a lender comfortable with the product. Nobody can promise how the trend plays out. The practical bottleneck is financing the land and the non-traditional structure. If you are seriously weighing a land-and-build path, we can walk through which one-time-close programs might fit on a Roadmap conversation.