JLT & Associates of Grand Rapids, Michigan is merging with national manufactured home (MH) appraisal firm Datacomp and MHVillage, a major internet marketing website for manufactured homes in land lease communities. Appraising MH since 1987, Datacomp gathers information about home values and features of manufactured housing communities (MHCs), and maintains a database for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) regarding MHC attributes. MHVillage also collects data about the MH it lists for rent and for sale, and the communities and markets in that area. In 2013 the company recorded almost 20 million visits to its website. In an email to MHProNews, John Turzer of JLT says the combining of skills will provide the industry with “accurate, timely research and widely available market intelligence (which) will be critical for our industry to compete, grow, and prosper in the coming years.”
