Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Louisville Manufactured Housing Show Countdown Updates Read More

Louisville Manufactured Housing Show Countdown Updates

By MHProNews / January 2, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The 2015 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show is now less than 3 weeks away. The Louisville Show has been the MH industry’s largest trade event for the last two years. Registrations are up by 49 professionals over the same period last year, and will accelerate from this point forward. Updates for

MHCV, S&P and NASDAQ slide, Dow begins 2015 with little change Read More

MHCV, S&P and NASDAQ slide, Dow begins 2015 with little change

By MHProNews / January 2, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Manufactured home community connected stocks did well today, while the MHCV dipped as did most other MH tracked companies. Reuters tells MHProNews that the broader U.S. stocks closed with little change on the first trading session of 2015, finishing well off session highs as economic data short-circuited early gains. In

Manufactured Housing Industry Supplier Announces Leadership Changes Read More

Manufactured Housing Industry Supplier Announces Leadership Changes

By MHProNews / January 2, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

A prime supplier and manufacturer of products specific to the manufactured housing industry has announced some leadership changes, effective January 1. Style Crest Enterprises, Inc., Fremont,Ohio, announced that Tom Kern, founder and past CEO of Style Crest will assume an active management role as Chairman of the Board of Directors

Consumer Access to Credit Reports Getting Easier? Read More

Consumer Access to Credit Reports Getting Easier?

By MHProNews / January 2, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Manufactured housing “street” or “community” retailers know how important credit scores can be for getting financing for would be customers. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), related federal or state licensing and regulatory standards have been making it tougher for sellers to communicate with consumers. Regs can also make it challenging

Jan 1 2015

Stanford University develops Earthquake resistant design for Homes

By MHProNews / January 1, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The term “sliders” is no longer limited to those small 3” sandwiches offered at various restaurants. A team of engineers at Stanford University has developed a method of constructing earthquake-resistant homes using 4.5” steel and plastic “sliders.” Jetson Green tells MHProNews that Stanford’s method involves placing a home on “seismic isolators.”

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Jan 1 2015

Manufactured Homes – Safer in Fires than “Sticks and Bricks” Houses

By MHProNews / January 1, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Two so-called ‘mobile home’ fires that hit local news illustrate the fact that modern manufactured homes (MH) offer better protection by design. Modern MH is safer against fires than traditionally constructed housing. MH is safer than pre-HUD Code mobile homes too. Who says? The NFPA – the National Fire Protection

Manufactured Homes – Safer in Fires than “Sticks and Bricks” Houses Read More

Jan 1 2015

Happy New Year 2015!

By MHProNews / January 1, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

There are many signs and facts that point to a continued manufactured housing recovery. We are in year 5 of year-over-year sales growth on new manufactured homes. There are new home sites being added in existing manufactured home communities, plus new communities are being planned. Investors are willing to place

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Faulty Water and Sewer create problems for some MHC Residents and community owners Read More

Faulty Water and Sewer create problems for some MHC Residents and community owners

By MHProNews / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Aging and improperly maintained infrastructure can lead to drinking and waste water problems in any kind of neighborhood, manufactured home communities (MHC) included. Besides the hassles for residents, media accounts of health violations in MHCs tend to fuel the ‘troubled mobile home park’ image. A recent example of this took

New Year’s eve – MHCV slides again, as does oil and broader market – but 2014 overall good for investors Read More

New Year’s eve – MHCV slides again, as does oil and broader market – but 2014 overall good for investors

By MHProNews / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Manufactured Housing Composite Value and most tracked MH stocks lost ground today. Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, hovered around a new low of $56 a barrel, heading for its largest annual decline since 2008. Oil inventories declined more than expected last week. CNN Money points out that

Will Jeb Bush advance family dynasty, seeking 2016 Republican Presidential candidacy 2016? Read More

Will Jeb Bush advance family dynasty, seeking 2016 Republican Presidential candidacy 2016?

By MHProNews / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The race for the presidency began months ago for Hillary Clinton and others who have been testing the waters. What will the business community and manufactured housing professionals be looking for as the 2016 campaign unfolds? Who will emerge as the standard bearers for the two major parties? Undoubtedly, Bill

Wisdom Homes Celebrates new East Texas Retail Center with 11 pending sales Read More

Wisdom Homes Celebrates new East Texas Retail Center with 11 pending sales

By MHProNews / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Wisdom Homes Of America, Inc., has a lot to be happy about. The company opened its fourth and largest retail center located in Mount Pleasant, Texas, in December with a total of 11 pending transactions. “We began receiving home purchase applications immediately after the bulk of our inventory started arriving

MHCV and Dow slips – NASDAQ and S&P dips Read More

MHCV and Dow slips – NASDAQ and S&P dips

By MHProNews / December 30, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The MHCV slid over 5% today. Marketwatch tells MHProNews that “cheaper gasoline, faster job creation and previously rising stock prices cheered up Americans during the holiday season. Consumer confidence rebounded in December to the third-highest level since the end of the recession more than five years ago.” So what happened?

Older Americans Provide Strong Support to U.S. Housing Market Read More

Older Americans Provide Strong Support to U.S. Housing Market

By MHProNews / December 30, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Studies show that older Americans in the 65 to 74 age group have the highest percentage of home ownership. This has provided valuable support to the American housing market in the last several years and is important for factory-built housing sellers too. If studies like the one done by Foremost

Negative Factors Affecting conventional housing could benefit Manufactured Home Market Read More

Negative Factors Affecting conventional housing could benefit Manufactured Home Market

By MHProNews / December 30, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Several articles published recently in Marketwatch tell a forlorn tale about the sad state of the average American’s personal and family finances. However, there may be a silver lining to the middle class dilemma that can benefit manufactured housing. According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center in