Manufactured and Modular Home News

In early January, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) provided the following November shipment numbers to their members, reflecting a decline for the second consecutive month.   7,998 New HUD Code Homes Shipped in November 2022 Last week, MHI released its Monthly Economic Report for [...]

Grows Team to Continue Serving Manufactured Home Buyers and Community Operators, Announces New VP of Sales Manufactured home chattel (home only) loan availability is critical in the growing demand for affordable homeownership. The following are excerpts from a news release referencing the [...]

The following are abbreviated samplings of news tidbits, over a short period of time, relative to tenant rent increases and investor sales of manufactured home communities (aka mobile home parks) across the U.S .   Washington New Laws Would Slow Rent Increases and Create Roadblocks To [...]

Source: National Mortgage News – Stacey Epperson first saw the possibility that manufactured housing held as a sustainable homeownership solution several years ago when working in a job that sent her to families in Appalachian Kentucky. “Their mobile homes were old. They were in bad [...]

After 50 years in the manufactured homes business, Dar Gardener of Kimball, Nebraska will be inducted into the RV/Manufactured Home Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana. After the first of the year, Dar received confirmation of her induction. The induction ceremony will be on August 21, when Dar [...]

New state law puts tiny homes on the same regulatory foundation as other manufactured housing, opening the door to let people live in them long term. Source: VailDaily – The popular tiny home movement is growing bigger in Colorado thanks to a new law aimed at allowing factory-built homes [...]

Manufactured homes – also known as factory-built homes – are an increasingly popular housing option that can be more affordable to buy and own than site-built homes. If you are thinking about buying a manufactured home, you should consider how your home will be titled. In contrast to a [...]

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”   Mark Twain There are many reasons that manufactured homes remain the housing choice for senior retirees. Many healthy retirement age, low and middle income workers are living longer,and in many instances are delaying [...]

Source–(Business Wire) – For the third consecutive year, Skyline Homes, a Champion Homes brand, is being recognized as America’s Most Trusted Manufactured Home Builder. The annual study conducted by Lifestory Research is based on the responses of over 40,000 consumers shopping for a [...]

The most difficult objection a salesperson will confront when interacting with a potential home shopper is the most often expressed belief: “A manufactured home is a poor investment, because they depreciate.” That belief is a lingering myth, not only prevalent with manufactured home shoppers, [...]

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore is leading a bipartisan Alabama Congressional delegation pushing back on “burdensome energy updates” on manufactured homes. All seven of Alabama’s congressional representatives, Republican and Democrat, signed a joint letter to the Secretaries of Housing and Urban [...]

The Belle Meadow community includes 74 home sites and is less than 5 miles from downtown Asheville, North Carolina Source: BUILDER – In a collaboration between two providers of sustainable off-site built homes, Champion Homes and Quartz Properties have announced development of a modular [...]

Housing appreciation is a key way for homeowners to build wealth. A growing body of research shows that off-site built housing can appreciate at nearly the same rate as site-built housing, making it a smart investment for an individual’s future. The following contains excerpts from an [...]

Source: BESTOCKS – Skyline Champion Corporation, a leading provider of manufactured homes and commercial modular buildings, recently saw several institutional investors making notable purchases of its stock. Mackenzie Financial Corp.,  B. Riley Wealth Advisors Inc., AE Wealth Management LLC. [...]

As traditional site-built home prices continue to soar, a result of an inflationary spiral and mortgage rates at or around 7%, there are hard working families that seemingly believe they cannot partake in the uniquely American Dream of home ownership. Fact is, traditional pre-owned (site-built) [...]