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Mayor and State Senator attend to witness Manufactured Home Community Purchase

By / / Affordable Housing, Communities, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Politics

Mayor Tom Hoye and state Sen. Marc R Pacheco were among those who attended the celebration at Colonial Estates in Taunton, MA when the resident association formally purchased the community. Colonial Estates residents organized and collectively purchased the community for $10.2 million from the previous owner, Shamrock Redwood Colonial LLC […]

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Skyline Stock in Focus Report; Markets Closed for Labor Day

By / / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular, Stocks

Skyline Corporation (NYSEMKT: SKY) saw its stock decrease by 10.78% in short interest, states consumer and financial news company, Consumer Eagle. Skyline designs, produces and markets manufactured and modular housing models as well as park models, as MH industry pros know. The company had a total short interest of 344,200 shares

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Labor Day 2016, By the Numbers – and Manufactured Housing

By / / Affordable Housing, Business, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, regulation

As it’s owners, managers, policy wonks, investors and working professionals who are the largest likely group of readers of MHProNews, it’s useful on this Labor Day to think beyond the celebration and the paid federal holiday, and look at what’s happening to labor in the United States.  Because much of

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Solitaire Homes reaches 5,000 manufactured home milestone

By / / Affordable Housing, Business, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

DEMING, NM – Solitaire Homes, a major employer in Deming, has hit a manufactured home production milestone as they continue to build and sell their product throughout the southwest. The plant recently built their 5,000th home from their production center which opened in 2001. They sell mostly within that market

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Famous designer, Antonio Robbie, PreFab Leader & how Revolution PreCrafted can boost manufactured, modular home acceptance

By / / Affordable Housing, Business, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, People

“Revolution Pre-Crafted Properties is a collection of limited edition dwellings, ranging from functional pavilions to modular homes,” explains DesignBoom. “The average price for one of these homes or pavilions is US $300,000, which I think is very compelling, because not everyone has access to these architects. And even if you did, you would

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 28-Sept. 4, 2016

By / / Headlines - Week In Review for Manufactured, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The week in review included hot topics like: Cavco’s Joe Stegmayer, Directors Insider Trades Media Bias in “Man Shot in Trailer Park” ABC report MHC Rent Control battle (Resident Councilman story) Video Tour of FEMA MHUs Controversy over proposed DOE energy rules, will it help or harm manufactured housing? NAHB’s

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CEO Sam Landy says, UMH Properties Completes Acquisition Of Two Ohio Communities

By / / Affordable Housing, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Stocks

Freehold NJ based UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE: UMH) announced that it has closed on the acquisition of two communities located in Ohio for a total purchase price of $2,954,000. PRNewswire says these two all-age communities contain 165 sites situated on approximately 71 acres. The weighted average occupancy for these communities

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Demand Rising for Manufactured Homes in Louisiana Flood Zone, Factories Gear Up for FEMA, Residents

By / / Association, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry

For two days, rain tortured the heart of bayou country, dumping 24 inches in less than 48 hours on southern Louisiana, says a report in the DigitalJournal. The 1000-year event flooded more than 100,000 residences, sending families into shelters and the homes of friends, relatives and even strangers. Now, as

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Cavco Leader, MHCV Outperforms, as soft jobs reports checks Wall Street

By / / Business, Company News, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks

Stocks ended modestly higher after a soft jobs report, says MarketWatch. “The U.S. added 151,000 jobs in August, slowing sharply from earlier in the summer.” The billion-plus monthly pageview news aggregator Drudge Report cited the following headlines and numbers; Biggest gains in bars, restaurants – ‘Army of Men’ Out of

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NRDC, ACEEE on DOE Energy Rule Proposals – Analysis – Helpful or Harmful for Consumers, Manufactured Housing Industry?

By / / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Business, Factory-Built Homes, Green, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry

Lauren Urbanek, writing for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), is among the recent writers and policy advocates expressing their support for the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed revised standards for manufactured housing (MH). Building on a report on the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) done by Senior Policy

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Analysis – Mid-America Apartment Communities vs. Sun Communities, Head-to-Head Comparison

By / / Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks

CML News recently took a deep dive into a head-to-head comparison between Memphis, TN-based Mid-America Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA) and Southfield, MI-based Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE: SUI). After a side-by-side comparison of both communities’ revenue growth, earnings, revenue per employee, operating margins, free cash flow and valuation, CML News determined

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Arkansas MHA’s ‘GET THE FACTS’ Video Series Completed

By / / Announcements, Association, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, People

JD Harper, Executive Director of the Little Rock based Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association has told the Daily Business News  that, “Our organization has been working on a series of short videos to address common myths, misconceptions and stereotypes that many potential homebuyers have about the quality, value and safety of

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Larger! The Other National Association…Not MHI, Not MHARR…Ally? Competitor? Both?

By / / Advocacy, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

Informed sources have told MHProNews about a national association with significant ties to numbers of HUD Code manufactured housing professionals; an association many times larger than the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) or the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), or both combined. That group? The National Federation of Independent

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AMG sliding, MHCV rising, Other Markets Close Mixed

By / / Business, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Stocks

“U.S. Manufacturing Hits Rough Spot in Possible Warning on Growth,” says Bloomberg, which also notes that “It’s Hard to Overstate How Quiet Stock Markets Are Right Now.” In the wake of their spectacular explosion on the launch pad, CNBC asks – “Why was Facebook launching a satellite?” The three main

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Urban Institute says Preservation, Manufactured Homes are Solutions to Affordable Housing Crisis

By / / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Business, Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, People

Affordable housing options are becoming less plentiful around the country, but according to Urban Institute researchers, there are ways to sidestep what has become an outright crisis. The numbers surrounding the lack of affordable housing across the U.S. are staggering.  In their map shown at the top left, light colored

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Russia, China, Dutch 3D Construction and Housing

By / / Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry

Dutch DUS architects have produced a 3D cabin, where they invite anyone in Amsterdam to come and stay the night.  It is part of a more ambitious and larger project, says Katie Medlock in Inhabitat. The cabin could be used for disaster relief or for other possible urban applications, perhaps

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Left, Right Agree – President Obama’s mark is on powerful U.S. Appeals Courts

By / / Advocacy, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Politics

Elizabeth Wydra is the president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, which Wikipedia describes as a conservative judicial group. Carrie Severino, is the chief counsel and policy director at the Judicial Crisis Network, which Wikipedia says an action center, think tank and public interest law firm that believes in an inherently

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UMH leads, Manufactured Housing CompValue recovers, as broader Stocks close lower

By / / Affordable Housing, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks

The S&P 500 snapped its 5 month winning streak today, says CNBC, with the energy sector down. Treasuries also retreated, following the ADP jobs report. A CNNMoney Op-Ed suggests that it is business that must lead the way to global recovery. UMH Properties (UMH) led gainers, in the manufactured housing

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Video – FEMA Manufactured Homes Going to Louisiana Flood Victims

By / / Events, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry

Dozens of FEMA manufactured homes have already been approved for victims of the recent flooding in Louisiana. Hundreds more are in the pipeline. Initial approvals are going to those who already have a home site, which in practice means the recipient of the FEMA home will be placed on the

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