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Commissioners in Mooresville, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte, seeking to reduce the number of “non-conforming” manufactured homes in town, passed an ordinance preventing the replacement siting of manufactured housing in areas not specifically zoned for MH. If the owner wants to upgrade or just replace an existing home, it …
From Nevada, MHProNews has learned the Lyon County Commissioners are being asked to change the ordinance that forbids the siting of manufactured homes older than 15 years in the county. The downturn in the economy led to the sale of many homes that were foreclosed upon and had been vacant …
David Weidner in MarketWatch tells MHProNews that President Obama has made a bad situation worse with Dodd-Frank. “You don’t need to ask the fact checkers, however, to know the president did very little to rein in Wall Street. If anything, he made a bad situation worse.” Weidner stated that “Instead …
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Datamonitor tells MHProNews that asset management firm Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has reported a net income of $60.9 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012, compared to $101 million, or $0.85 per diluted share, for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. Revenue …
NZHerald tells MHProNews from New Zealand the Kitset home by Box Living utilizes the strength of Kiwi-made Glulam timber for a series of floor and roof cassettes to make their modular houses. The construction features a timber post-and-beam exoskeleton with stainless-steel cross braces that has been approved for seismic, wind …
After Hurricane Katrina destroyed 4,000 homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans with its 12 feet of surging water, the population of the area fell from 17,000 to 3,000 today. The $14.45 billion construction of new floodwalls that successfully withstood the wrath of Hurricane Isaac may encourage more …
QE3 was dollar devaluation in disguise for most other than savvy investors, so it is no wonder that market, housing and other prices ‘went up’ in its initial wake. But as economic realities are sinking in, the Dow lost ground as did the Yahoo! Finance’s Manufactured Housing Composite Index. CNN …
Seasidesignal tells MHProNews that a Clatsop County OR hearings official revised his order on Sunset Lake RV and MH Resort after a challenge by owner Ken Hick. Hearings Officer Paul Elsner, has authorized up to 75 permanent and short term spaces on the roughly 4.4 acre property. Hick appealed an …
The CATO Institute’s CEO, John A. Allison, is making the case that free markets not government are the solution to what caused the banking crisis. In his book,”The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy’s Only Hope.” In a column to AB, Allison …
Greenprophet tells MHProNews that Egyptian Studio House has designed a pre-fab (modular) home called the Oxygen Villa. The solar powered home provides natural light, ventilation and cutting edge photovoltaic (PV) systems. It boasts decentralized waste water treatment and uses cantilevering mashrabiya boxes to catch prevailing winds; perfect for upscale Arab …
According to data released by the federal government, CNNMoney reports consumers spent an average of 3.3 percent more on household expenses in 2011 than in 2010. The average for annual spending increased to $49,705, the first yearly rise since 2008. It must be noted that inflation, however, rose 3.2 percent, …
As HousingWire reports, the pending home sales index rose 2.7 percent from 115.8 in July to 118.9 in August even with available inventory levels falling, according to the California Association of Realtors (CAR). However, the pending sales index in Aug. 2011 was 121.4. The decline, says CAR President LeFrancis Arnold, …
Despite good news from the housing market and positive consumer confidence reports, investors were more focused on the what they see as a tepid global economy, as the three major indexes all dropped. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid down -101.37 points, -0.75 percent, to close at 13,457.32, …
CNNMoney reports consumer confidence rose in Sept. to 70.3, well above the 63 reading many economists expected, and higher than the 61.3 August number. The Conference Board, a business research firm, says consumers who expect more jobs in the days ahead rose from 15.8 to 18.5, and those saying jobs …
HousingWire reports an increase in home prices June to July 2012 according to the Standard & Poor Case-Shiller 10-city and 20-city indexes. The 10-city composite reveals a 1.5 percent rise. The 20-city composite grew 1.6 percent, registering the third consecutive month of growth in those cities. Dallas and Washington, D.C. …
Idmanagedsolutions reports SmarTrend issued an Uptrend for Universal Forest Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: UFPI) on Aug. 22, 2012 when the stock was at $36.84. Today, the price is quoted at 16.66% higher, $42.97. Over the past 52 weeks, the share price has ranged from a low of $22.91 to a high …
The register-guard reports from the Springfield City Council in Oregon, city officials are trying to determine their obligation for the residents of the 441 occupied manufactured homes in the city’s eight MHCs if development uproots them. The state legislature passed new rules in 2007 requiring MHC owners to give residents …
MHProNews has learned the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) issued a reminder to approved FHA lenders to promptly release hazard insurance funds to disaster victims of Hurricane Isaac, as per loan documents. The Mortgagee Letter says in the past some lenders used hazard insurance proceeds to pay off the mortgage, leaving …
NetNewsLedger reports from the northern Ontario, Canada town of Attawakispat on James Bay, the manufactured homes that were brought over the winter ice road have been sited during the summer. A disagreement between Minister of Aboriginal Affairs John Duncan and the Attawakispat First Nation leaders over funding management has led …
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Testifying before the office of the U. S. Trade Representative in Washington, D.C. the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) CEO Jerry Howard urged the federal government to avoid involving the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber accord in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPP) talks. “Reopening the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber agreement would …
