The manufactured housing industry is a small part of the housing industry, but has tremendous potential, as the recent move by insurance giant Northwestern Mutual reminds investors. Since that major move, sources say that property has already changed hands again. In a trillion dollar a year U.S. housing sector, what […]
Are you new to this business daily market feature? Already hooked on our spotlight feature – or are ready to get the MH professional fever? Our headline reports are found further below, just beyond the Manufactured Housing Composite Value for today. The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the manufactured home industry’s
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The video interviews that MHProNews or MHLivingNews has provided over the years are geared toward shedding light on real-world manufactured housing industry issues. Those videos are done with professionals, experts, and home owners. While the focus is understood with those being interviewed – some aspect(s) of manufactured homes – the
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If you’re new, already hooked on our new spotlight feature – or are ready to get the MH professional fever – our headline reports are found further below, just beyond the Manufactured Housing Composite Value for today. The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the manufactured home industry’s stocks in the broader
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“What’s wrong is that we don’t ask what’s right.” – G. K. Chesterton, author. “Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.” ― Matthew Kelly, author. In a step-by-step, methodical, fact-based manner – Tim Williams – current MHI Chairman, and the president and CEO of 21st Mortgage Corporation
Why does federal preemption of manufactured housing matter? Because preemption is what allows a HUD code manufactured home (MH) to be built to a performance based standard proven to save consumers time and money, while protecting durability, and homeowner safety. The enforcement of manufactured home preemption could open hundreds of
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Our new August issueOur theme for this month: Awful, Awesome August 2017 in MHVille featured articles will be available on the MHProNews.com home page. Our May theme will be available mid-week this week. To see the line-up of over 2-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the
Among the thousands of daily readers, MHProNews software indicates that hundreds of public officials are among those professionals who routinely logon. While the specifics of who those visitors are isn’t known, Webalizer detects .gov, .mil, and .edu – along with numerous other such extensions. A federal official called MHProNews recently. In
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Steve Bannon is out. Was is it a strategy? Is this a head fake to deflect heat off the Oval Office? More on that in our spotlight section below, in two video reports. If you’re new, already hooked on our new spotlight feature – or are ready to get the
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Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Senior Vice President Lesli Gooch, Ph.D. – following the lead of months of Daily Business News reports – recently said, “With the national homeownership rate at a 50-year low, rents increasing at a rapid pace, and mortgage credit still tight, a key focus in Washington should
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Skyline, Equity LifeStyle Properties and Sun Communities were among the few manufactured home industry connected stocks that bucked a broader drop in the markets. There is also a link to a report on VMF, Clayton Homes in house lender, near the bottom of this daily market report. If you’re new,
While much of the media on the left and right are unloading on the president, the White House is pointing to the actual words and deeds of POTUS Trump. If you’re new, already hooked on our new spotlight feature – or are ready to get the MH professional fever –
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“It would be interesting to do a comparative history, MH vs. public housing,” said Ross Kinzler, prior executive director of the Wisconsin Housing Alliance (WHA). “Did the public sector do any better serving lower-class housing needs? Nope,” said Kinzler. His remark came in part as a reaction to an in-depth
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MHProNews has been advised by sources that Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF) has been testing a Zero Down Payment chattel lending program. Per those sources – one of which is involved in manufactured home industry lending – the loan program doesn’t require “land in lieu” of down payment. The assertion
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The White House press room said in a release today to MHProNews that an infrastructure Executive Order will speed the permitting process on highways and other infrastructure. That video, some stills and more are below. Business wage boosting efforts are also part of our spotlight report, further below. The president
Concerns over war with North Korea aren’t gone, but a variety of signals at home and abroad have calmed nervous investors. So for today’s spotlight, we’ll return to a the push for tax reform, 2017. If you’re new, already hooked on our new spotlight feature – or are ready to
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Our new August issue will go live tonight, Aug 6th. Our featured articles will be available on the MHProNews.com home page. Our August theme will be available mid-week this week. To see the line-up of over 2-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link above.
The successful test of the hyperloop transit concept could lead to significant changes in U.S. housing patterns. Current transportation methods limit the distance that people can reasonably commute to get to work in urban or suburban settings. Higher density populations, along with urban sprawl, creates congestion on road ways. Various
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“The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published on August 9 its Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress, showing that 8.3 million unassisted very low income households in America spend more than half of their income on their housing, live in severely substandard housing, or both,” said
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North Korean War talk continues to cast a shadow for some investors, see that report from yesterday, linked here. But some insiders say that Kim Jung un isn’t about to blow his billionaire lifestyle by actually doing what he threatens. Time will tell. Meanwhile, White House press memos to MHProNews
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