Manufactured and Modular Housing News

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE AGE OF THE McMANSION is apparently over. Some towns have passed ordinances against the lot-engulfing giants, but the end may have come from within as a result of changing consumer preferences and […]

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: ESTIMATES SAY there are some two million manufactured homes in the United States built before June 1976. The homes are both inefficient, and in some cases unsafe. Replacing them is the aim of

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: IN WHAT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS (NAHB) is calling a major victory for affordable housing, sound science and more sensible regulations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been forced to withdraw

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: BANKING EXECUTIVES WERE IN WASHINGTON Tuesday to weigh in on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Reports indicated the group overwhelmingly advocated the government should maintain a large role propping up

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: BUILDER CONFIDENCE in the market for newly built, single-family homes edged down for a third consecutive month in August, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI),

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: IF YOU’RE LOOKING for chattel financing from the FHA, you may be out of luck, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from entering the luxury condo market in Manhattan. Bloomberg ran a story

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: FROM THE PRESS DEMOCRAT in Santa Rosa, California we find manufactured home park residents fighting the planned sale of the park they call home. Resident Roger McConnell and about 100 of his neighbors

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: ___________________________________________________________________________ TUESDAY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION announced additional support to help homeowners struggling with unemployment through two targeted foreclosure-prevention programs. Through the existing Housing Finance Agency (HFA) Innovation Fund for the Hardest Hit Housing

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Manufactured Home Sales Rise We begin with these stories: IF YOU’RE CONCERNED your carbon footprint is too big, Clayton Homes has an answer. Popular Mechanics recently ran a feature on Clayton homes I-House. I-House is

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla We begin with these stories: AN ALABAMA ARCHITECT hopes to win a quarter-million dollars from the “Pepsi Do Good for the Gulf Project” to help property owners rebuild an Orange Beach condominium complex destroyed by Hurricane Ivan, reports

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – The annual growth rates in 15 of the 20 MSAs and the 10- and 20-City Composites improved in May compared to those reported for April 2010 But first…these stories: The Knoxville News reports that Clayton

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – High School students’ green house may be golden But first…these stories: IMHA Replies to Charges against Colorado Community Owner The Register has recently published numerous articles and editorials on conditions in Iowa mobile home rental

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – 5,430 New HUD Code Homes Shipped in June 2010, up 21.8 Percent from June 2009 But first…these stories: Area sales up sharply as more people turn to manufactured housing theDestinLog.com Destin, Florida Overall home sales

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Manufactured Home Sales Rise But first…these stories: 8,300 hazard alert radios available to needy Hoosiers Journal Gazette INDIANAPOLIS. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday it has partnered with local emergency management agencies to

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Finding Your Way Home through Technology But first…these stories: Arizona Startup Introduces $100-Per-Square-Foot ASUL Modular Housing Concept Other construction options could push pricing as low as $25 per foot. By Nigel F. Maynard, BuilderOnline.com Architects,

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Floor plan program attracts Auto, RV and Marine dealers, Manufactured Housing Retail Flooring also available But first…these stories: Starkey Mortgage/Phoenix Housing to pay North Carolinians $4.4M by Lee Weisbecker – Triangle Business Journal Plano, Texas-based

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Manufactured Homes See Increase in Sales But first…these stories: Arizona Association Membership on the Rise, Members Look to Return of Financing The manufactured housing industry as a whole may be in a valley, but that

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Could “Granny Flats” Be a Sandwich Generation Solution? But first…these stories: Clayton Home Sales Centers sales up this year South Carolina Now The numbers for Clayton Home Sales Centers (a Berkshire-Hathaway Company) for the first

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Modular Construction – A Greener Way to Build But first…these stories: New-Home Sales Bounce Back from Record Low in June NAHB (National Association of Home Builders) Coming off an historic low in May, sales of

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. “Coming up: House and Senate Committees Move HUD Spending Bills; Need for Personal Property Lending Support Emphasized” But first…these stories: ____________________________________________________________________ Champion’s got it ‘going’ York News-Times YORK, NE [Nebraska] — It’s been a long, winding path for