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With the Innovative Housing Showcase now at a close, plenty of people are talking about Fannie Mae’s MH Advantage & Freddie Mac’s CHOICEHome requirements and benefits. These two [...]

Over the past few months, new financing options for manufactured housing have been cropping up left and right, providing potential buyers with a significant number of fresh options for making [...]

(Photo: Michael Reynolds/Epa/Newscom) “Duty To Serve” manufactured homes was mandated, not made optional, by the U.S. Congress with passage of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 [...]

 Manufactured Housing Industry “Hopeful” This Will Be The Launching Pad To Government-Sponsored Chattel Home Financing Nationwide Today’s manufactured home is undoubtedly the only quality [...]

In most parts of the country, purchasers of manufactured homes can only get a conventional fixed-rate mortgage if they buy land along with the mobile home. As a consequence, this strictly limits [...]

Another “false start” for Fannie/Freddie? After years of study and contemplation, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Fannie/Freddie) are ready to test the [...]

Apparently, Arizona, New York, and California all have one very important thing in common…a fundamental understanding of the intrinsic value of today’s fiscally responsible [...]

It may not happen tomorrow, but the Federal Housing Finance Agency finally put the needs of the American people first, persuading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to step up and finally begin [...]

Causing optimism within the manufactured housing community, Fannie Mae has announced a transaction that will maintain and preserve affordable housing in rental communities across the nation, [...]

Checking up on the 2008 Housing and Economic Recovery Act‘s (HERA) success, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has been looking to track any evidence of purported progress made with [...]