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Manufactured Housing’s Sunday Morning Weekly News Recap June 21-28, 2015 adds a New Feature!

Every week, the ‘history’ of modern manufactured and modular housing is passing before the eyes of our readers here. We cover some mainstream housing news too, when it ought to be of keen interest to those in some aspect of factory-built housing. Our web reports tell us there are those […]

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Analysts Give Manufactured Home Community giant ELS Thumbs Up

NASDAQ.com published the following on Friday about manufactured home community sector giant, Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS). “In trading on Thursday, shares of Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc’s 6.75% Series C Shares (Symbol: ELS.PRC) were yielding above the 6.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.6875), with shares changing hands

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Richard W. Florea named President and CEO of Skyline Corporation, Manufactured/Modular Home Builder

ELKHART, IN., June 25, 2015. Skyline Corporation (NYSE: SKY) announced their Board of Directors named Richard W. Florea as President and Chief Executive Officer and appointed him to the Board of Directors effective July 27, 2015.  The company also stated that Bruce G. Page who previously was President, Chief Executive

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Manufactured Housing Composite Value Rose, Tracked Stocks Closed Mixed

Marketwatch’s  Michael Gayed asks; are investors living in the eye of the storm? “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” – Willa Cather. Greece, domestic and other international matters have created a volatile mix for the market, but today there was relative calm. Meanwhile,

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High Dollar Community Closure Looms for Buena Vista Mobile Home Park

San Jose, California – The closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park draws closer. Given the impact on 400 low income residents, Santa Clara County supervisors voted Tuesday to offer $6.5 million tied to a similar commitment from the city of Palo Alto, CA. “Time is of the essence,” said

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Tax Bills Mailed for Manufactured Homes in Ohio

MHProNews has learned from timesleader of Martins Ferry, Ohio that Harrison County Treasurer Vicki Sefsick announced all real estate and manufactured home bills for the county for the second half of the 2015 toax season have been mailed to those who own property or manufactured homes. The county seat, Cadiz,

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Plans for Manufactured Home Community Expansion on Hold

The Bloomington (IL) Planning Commission recommended City Council approve a plan for a manufactured home community (MHC) to expand on an eight-acre site that was once part of the Southgate Estates Mobile Home Park. After a foreclosure in 2011, Southgate was split into two parcels, and the larger one became

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Equity LifeStyle Properties’ Director Sheds Stock

David J. Contis, a director on the board of Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (NYSE:ELS) sold 5,000 shares of the company’s stock on Tue., June 23 at an average price of $53.65 for a total value of $268,250.00. Disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Contis now

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MHCV Edges Up, Health Care Stocks Rise on Supreme Court Decision

In CNN News: Supreme Court ruling upholds Affordable Care Act subsidies, Greece has five days to avoid default, Gen-Xers don’t want to be homeowners, and Univision cancels Miss Universe pageant over Donald Trump’s comments about Mexicans. Meanwhile, the Yahoo Manufactured Housing Composite Value (MHCV) nudged up +0.20 percent to end

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Texas Dealer Offering Manufactured Homes at Cost to Flood Victims

After spending a day cleaning up debris around Wimberly, Texas, in the wake of the flooding that ravaged parts of the state, Alberto Pina, general manager of Mobile Homes Direct 4 Less, is offering new manufactured homes at cost to people who lost their homes, according to PRWeb. “The pictures

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$2,500 Bamboo and Wood House Measures 861 Square Feet

Cambodia’s two-story pilot Framework House, built of bamboo and wood, was initially aimed at families afflicted with HIV who are in poor health, but will now be targeted generally to those with low incomes. A collaboration of Atelier COLE, Habitat for Humanity Cambodia and Building Trust International, the family for

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Georgia Jurisdiction will allow Upgrades to Manufactured Homes

Lowndes County Planning Commission members in Valdosta, Georgia listened to Lowndes County Planner Jason Davenport propose changes to the Moody Air Force Base zoning regulations. The change would balance the scale between the base and property owners in the Moody Activity Zone (MAZ), according to valdostadailytimes. Noting that current amendments

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Insider Trading at Sun Communities: Randall K. Rowe

MHProNews has learned that Randall K. Rowe, a member of the board of directors of Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE:SUI), acquired 25,664 shares of company stock at $50.00 per share June 19, 2015 for a total value of $1,283,200.00, according to a required filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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New Single-Family Home Sales Reach Highest Point in Seven Years

Hitting the highest rate since Feb. 2008, new single-family home sales in May 2015 rose 2.2 percent, hitting a seasonally annual-adjusted rate (SAAR) of 546,000, based on data released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Census Bureau. The rate was 19.5 percent above last May’s

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Deer Valley Skyrockets +62.50 Percent; Dow Falls 178 Points

In CNN News: Failure to reach deal with Greece over bailout sends Dow down a slippery slope, losing nearly one percent. Plus, Americans waste $900 a year in food, Alan Greenspan says U. S. real estate is stagnating, the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina metro area has the most job opportunities, and

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Objectionable EPA Provision may be Removed from Ohio Budget

The Ohio State Senate passed the state budget June 18, 2015 less the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) provision that would require manufactured home communities (MHCs) to escrow 15 percent of the cost of a replacement water system, though not to exceed $250,000. It would have also allowed rental income to

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Another New Manufactured Home Community Plan Advances

BLOOMINGTON — There is an emerging trend in various parts of the nation, where new manufactured home communities are being authorized by zoning officials and are being built. One of these examples is in Bloomington, IL, where the Pantagram’s  Maria Nagle tells MHProNews that a site plan for a new

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Michigan Jail Expansion will Include Modular Cells

Modular units are being used to expand the women’s section of the Livingston County Jail in Howell, Michigan. A spike in heroin related offenses has increased the female inmate population from around a dozen inmates daily 12 years ago to 60, in an area designed for 31. The new design,

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Sales Tax Rescinded on used Manufactured Homes

A Missouri Supreme Court decision from two years ago that made the sale of used manufactured homes (MH) taxable has been reversed and signed into law by Governor Jay Nixon. Introduced by Rep. Sandy Crawford as HB 111, the sale of used MH had not been taxable for the 20

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Affluent Foreigners Purchased over $100 Billion in U. S. Real Estate

At an average price of $500,000, wealthy foreigners bought a record $104 billion of U. S. residential real estate between April 2014 and March 2015, according to cnbc, accounting for eight percent of existing home sales. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports Chinese were the biggest purchasers attributable for

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