Matthew Silver

Following a 25-year career operating a custom hardwood furnishing business and occasional writing, Matthew Silver has been writing professionally for over a dozen years, six of those for the factory-built housing industry. Otherwise, he may be found performing folk music in the Indianapolis area.

Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 19-July 26, 2015

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Temporary Modular Housing being Restricted in Bakken Oilfield

The Williams County Commission in Williston, North Dakota voted to adopt new guidelines putting restrictions on new or renewed applications for temporary housing as of August 1, 2015, as willistonherald reports. As the price of oil has fallen and the demand for oilfield workers has subsided, the commission is phasing …

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The Avoidance of the Rule of Law by Dodd-Frank

Writing in wsj, former Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Phil Gramm, noting the effects of Dodd-Frank on the banking system, says although the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing has increased bank reserves, lending has barely risen. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reports that 1,341 commercial banks have closed since 2010, …

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Dow Falls -163 Points, Most Tracked Manufactured Housing Stocks also Drop

In the news from CNNMoney: New home sales fall. Dunkin’ Donuts CEO says $15 minimum wage is outrageous. Anthem Healthcare to acquire Cigna following Aetna’s acquisition of Humana, covering a total of 86 million members. Gates Foundation’s $200 million resulting in malaria vaccine. Meanwhile, the Yahoo Manufactured Housing Composite Value …

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Modular Workforce Housing Planned for Southwest Louisiana

A variance request by Ridge Park LLC to allow for the placement of 28 modified shipping containers for worker housing was passed by the Calcasieu Parish Planning and Zoning Board in Louisiana. The property had been re-re-zoned in 2013 from Agricultural and Mixed Residential to R-MHP — Manufactured Home Park, …

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Help Ensure Passage of The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) informs MHProNews on Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which includes the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (S. 682/H.R. 650) per Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby’s (R-AL) request. While passage of the …

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UMH Properties Set to Release Q2 Financials Aug. 7

Real estate investment trust (REIT) and manufactured home community (MHC) owner UMH Properties, Inc. will host its Q2 2015 financial results webcast and conference call on Friday, August 7, at 10:00 AM EST. Senior management will be on hand to discuss the results as well as current market conditions and …

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Capital One Arranges $14 Million Fannie Mae Loan

MHProNews has learned from Capital One that the company has arranged a $14 million Fannie Mae fixed-rate loan to refinance Rincon Country Mobile Home Park in Tucson, Arizona. Damon Reed, Senior Vice President and Capital One’s Director of MHC (manufactured housing community) Finance arranged the transaction to retire existing higher-rate …

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Drew Industries to Release Second Quarter Financials

MHProNews has learned from marketwatch that Elkhart, Indiana-based Drew Industries, Inc., (NYSE:DW) will release its Q2 2015 financials before the market opens on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, to be followed by a conference call later that same morning at 11 AM EST to discuss the results and other business matters. …

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Deer Valley Corp. Jumped +10.25 percent while Most All Tracked Stocks Fell

In the news from CNNMoney: Harley Davidson recalling 185,000 motorcycles. Gold has fallen to its lowest point in five years, down more than 40% since 2011. Donald Trump earned $600,000 from the storied Central Park Carousel in NYC’s Central Park. In latest J. D. Power survey Chevrolet Corvette beats Porsche …

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Home Sales Rise to Best Rate in Eight Years

Existing home sales increased 3.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.49 million in June, according to usatoday, selling at the fastest rate in eight years. Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Lawrence Yun says “Buyers have come back in force, leading to the strongest past …

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Capital One Arranges Purchase of CA Manufactured Home Community

According to abladvisor, Capital One has provided a $4.6 million fixed-rate loan for a repeat client to acquire Ocean West, a 127-unit, age-restricted manufactured home community (MHC) in McKinleyville, California. Built in 1979 and renovated in 1986, the property is located less than a mile from the Pacific Ocean, and …

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Orders for Keiser’s Modular Homes will be Built at a Sister Plant

Following a story MHProNews last posted July 20, 2015 regarding the fire that has temporarily halted production at Keiser Homes in Oxford, Maine, sunjournal reports unfinished orders will be completed at one of the parent companies plants in Pennsylvania. While employees at the plant continued to ship homes to customers, …

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Gendell Unloads More Patrick Stock for $1.48 Million

In a pattern that MHPronews has reported at least five times going back to Nov. 7, 2014, dakotafinancialnews reports Patrick Industries (NASDAQ:PATK) major stockholder Jeffrey Gendell has unloaded another mass of stock, this time 37,901 shares in a transaction dated Friday, July 17, 2015. According to the Securities and Exchange …

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Manufactured Home Community in Florida Sells for $6.4 Million

Marcus & Millichap (M&M) has informed MHProNews of the sale of a 135+ home site manufactured home community (MHC) near Tarpon Springs, Florida for $6,400,000. The age-restricted community is situated on 15.37 acres, according to Richard D. Matricaria, regional manager of the firm’s Tampa office, and includes a 2,500 acre …

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PSP Seeks Manufactured Home Communities to Provide Affordable Housing

Park Street Partners (PSP) of Ladera Ranch, California informs MHProNews it has purchased Desert Trails Mobile Home Park in Green River, Wyoming, marking its seventh manufactured home community (MHC), but its first acquisition of the year, according to pressreleaserocket. Noting the community’s occupancy increased during the closing period, co-founder of …

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MHCV Edges Up, NASDAQ Slips, Existing Home Sales Rose 3.2 % in June

In the news from CNNMoney: Apple stock fell five percent in today’s trading, following an eight percent drop yesterday because it sold “only” 47.5 million iPhones last quarter. IBM investors are singing the blues. Fast food workers in the U. S. total 3,131,390, one percent of the population. Meanwhile, the …

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Elko Band Native Americans Break Ground for New Manufactured Homes

A $700,000 U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Indian Community Development Block Grant will provide seven new one-and two-bedroom manufactured homes for the Elko Band Colony Native Americans in Elko, Nevada, according to elkodaily, as tribal members and staff break ground for the homes. The HUD grant …

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Texas City Reverses Decision, Votes to Allow Manufactured Housing

Following up on a post MHProNews wrote July 13, 2015, regarding the Huntsville, Texas, City Council’s vote to prohibit the new siting of manufactured homes within the city limits, D. J. Pendleton, Executive Director of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA), informs MHProNews the city council reversed its decision. The …

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War of Words? DC’s The Hill Congressional Blog on Manufactured Housing Finance Reform

While the Corporation for Enterprise Development’s (CFED) Doug Ryan nominally supports manufactured homes (MH) as affordable housing for low income consumers, his response to The Hill  about Rep. Steve Fincher’s call to ease the regulatory burdens on prospective purchasers of MH demonstrably misses the mark. As MHProNews and MHLivingNews publisher L. …

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