Editing Modular building (section)

===Market acceptance===
[[File:Stoke newington raines court 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Raines Court is a multi-story modular housing block in [[Stoke Newington]], [[London]], one of the first two residential buildings in Britain of this type. (December 2005)]]
Some home buyers and some lending institutions resist consideration of modular homes as equivalent in value to site-built homes.{{Citation needed|date = September 2013|reason = Requires reliable, third-party, published source (not from a Modular Homes company's website) to allow for verification of statements.}} While the homes themselves may be of equivalent quality, entrenched zoning regulations and psychological marketplace factors may create hurdles for buyers or builders of modular homes and should be considered as part of the decision-making process when exploring this type of home as a living and/or investment option. In the UK and Australia, modular homes have become accepted in some regional areas; however, they are not commonly built in major cities. Modular homes are becoming increasingly common in Japanese urban areas, due to improvements in design and quality, speed and compactness of onsite assembly, as well as due to lowering costs and ease of repair after earthquakes. Recent innovations allow modular buildings to be indistinguishable from site-built structures.<ref name="hkt00710">{{cite web |last1=fab |first1=ukporta |title=prefabricated structures |url=https://ukportaprefab.com/prefabricated-structures-in-india/ |website=ukportaprefab |date=19 August 2020 |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref> Surveys have shown that individuals can rarely tell the difference between a modular home and a site-built home.<ref>{{Cite web|title= Factory-Built Construction and the American Homebuyer: Perceptions and Opportunities|url=https://www.huduser.gov/portal/Publications/pdf/Perceptions_of_factory_construction.pdf|website=Huduser.gov|page=9|access-date = 2017-09-10}}</ref>