Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“Housing markets are inherently local, making them notoriously difficult to analyze due to the lack of reliable data at the local level. A new dataset from the AEI Housing Center, the first in a series of quarterly reports, aims to fill this void by analyzing housing market data for the […]

Let’s be clear. Tiny houses are a fad or trend that provides numerous lessons for the factory-built housing industry. That doesn’t mean that we have to rename everything as a tiny house. It may be useful to use that phrase on a truly smaller HUD or other code factory-built home.

Controversy for its own sake is not the goal here at MHProNews. There is a strong need to respect the rights for freedom of religion and free speech for all. At the same time, freedom should not be cover for extremism and violence. Tonight’s market report will be a bit

The new data for March 2019 is in. This May 2019 HUD Code production data update is arguably more serious than any other bloggers or trade media in manufactured housing dare publish. This Daily Business News on MHProNews report will reflect the latest toplines. But it will also shed light

For those that are new or want a refresher, the exclusive report by the Daily Business News on MHProNews of the Clayton Homes related 2018 data from Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway is found at the report linked from the text-image box below. 2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report, Clayton Homes,

Unless otherwise noted, the sources for the information that follows are from Nobility Homes (NOBH) 2018 annual report and/or their company’s website, YouTube page, or other company information. It is being provided here under fair use guidelines. Rephrased, this is our report, uses information from their firm, but is not

“”We can afford to lose money – even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation,” wrote Warren Buffett to managers,” according to a post on the Wall Street Journal’s Facebook page. Now contrast that with the investment-focused Motley Fool’s citation

What’s the largest national trade association in manufactured housing? As longtime former-member George F. Allen should know, it is the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), based in Arlington, VA. They have for years claimed that “MHI is the only national trade organization representing all segments of the factory-built housing industry.” –

For over a year, the Daily Business News on MHProNews has been virtually alone in the industry’s trade media in periodically spotlighting the Opportunity Zones that were part of the Trump Administration tax and economic stimulus plans. Given the nation’s complex ‘carrots and sticks’ federal tax system, the Opportunity Zones

“The first session of the 57th Oklahoma Legislature completed its third month last week as the Senate and House completed hearing bills on the floor of their respective chamber by the April 25 deadline,” said the Manufactured Housing Association of Oklahoma (MHAO). Governor Kevin Stitt has signed the bill that

  There are all kinds of fights and battles. Some are physical. Others are mental. Still others are bruising business battles or political brawls. You don’t have to be a boxing fan to love some of the underlying themes in the Rocky series of movies. As Rodger Castro said about

We will weave two seemingly disconnected topics together. Holocaust Remembrance Day and the approach of Ramadan. First the Holocaust didn’t just impact Jews, who were certainly a prime target. Millions of non-Jewish people died in the same Nazi death camps. It is also not enough to wag a finger at

Let’s have some fun admitting that while there are real pains to being the contrarian to the manufactured housing industry’s BOR-ing ‘Knoxville-Arlington Amen Corner,’ there is also a liberating quality to it. We on the Daily Business News on MHProNews don’t have to wonder what the big boys think when

HUD Secretary Ben Carson told the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) yesterday that manufactured housing “is a product which clearly fills a need that would otherwise go unmet.” Secretary Carson made a surprise appearance that the MHCC meeting in Washington, D.C. yesterday. Per informed sources, HUD’s Office of Manufactured Housing

Last night, the Daily Business News on MHProNews looked at regional data that revealed 3 states with increases, but 3 others with significant declines in new manufactured homes shipped. Now, in our pre-dawn report, multiple tips from members of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) provided their state’s latest –

Tips from members of the Manufactured Housing Association of Oklahoma (MHAO) members provided the data their state association produced. The graphic below summarized MHAO’s calculations of what the states of AR, KS, LA, MO, NM, OK, and TX shipped in February 2019 vs 2018, and a Year over Year (YoY)

MarketWatch has a column today about capitalism and the law that merits a good fact-check, but we will defer that topic for another date, as the headlines for today were focused on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s “one word” that sent generally sent stocks down. On a day with slightly

“Sankaty Advisors Llc decreased its stake in Skyline Champion Corporation (SKY) by 29.6% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Sankaty Advisors Llc sold 2.01 million shares as the company’s stock declined 5.55% while stock markets rallied. The hedge fund held 4.79M shares of the homebuilding company

According to key “congressional supporters of the 2000 reform law” in a letter to HUD said that “…changes to the law [the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000] give “HUD the legal authority to preempt local requirements or restrictions which discriminate against the siting of manufactured homes … simply because