There are times we strive to serve meat and potatoes, which the dictionary defines as “ordinary but fundamental things; basic ingredients.” But there are other times that we dive deeper into the issues that are pressing – say, towards a deadline. Yesterday was such a day. Webalizer and other metrics […]
“FHFA as conservator has broad authority over the Enterprises, but the focus of the conservatorships is not to manage every aspect of their operations. Instead, FHFA leadership reconstituted Fannie Mae and Freddie Macs’ boards of directors in 2008 and charged them with ensuring that normal corporate governance practices and procedures
Executive Vice President Lesli Gooch, the “CEO-elect” of the Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has submitted comments that should be raising caution – or red – flags for investors in manufactured housing for reasons that will be outlined in tonight’s featured focus. On a day when the markets
Following an email to a limited number of manufactured housing professionals this morning, one of them posted the following to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) request for input. The core of the message from our publisher to encourage the FHFA to hold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to fully
At this time, 4:45 AM ET, there are only 4 comments posted on the Federal Housing Finance Agency website. “The current population of the United States of America is 329,784,810 as of Thursday, November 14, 2019, says WorldoMeters. There are some 22 million Americans living in mobile or manufactured housing, roughly 3/4th of
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This will be a timely fact-check and analysis of a report by Marcus & Millichap Research Services, which periodically cited Datacomp-JLT; CoStar Group, Inc., Institute for Building Technology and Safety; Manufactured Housing Institute; U.S. Census Bureau. Their report concludes with these words. “The information contained in this report was obtained
The so-called Big Three in manufactured housing each put out public statements. Clayton Homes is a subsidiary of publicly traded Berkshire Hathaway. Skyline Champion is well behind Clayton in market share but is in the number 2 spot. Cavco Industries is in third, all according to the most recent data
There was an internal debate at MHProNews (that happens…) as to what the topic would be for our market focus tonight. Senator Elizabeth Warren and comments made by Steve Forbes? We might do that one soon, because it is an interesting look at where they might be right as well
The Request for Input (RFI) comments for the Duty to Serve manufactured housing plans by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were originally set some time back for November 12, but when we checked in yesterday to submit, the date was revised to 11.15.2019. Thus, those industry professionals so motivated
Programming note: ladies, there is a special message just for you in the last paragraph of this report. Please don’t miss it. That said, let’s dive into our headline topic. Snopes has recently done their version of a fact check. First, the topic, then their fact check, our
