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China-based international HomeBuilder Targets U.S. with $1,000,0000,000 in Projects

By / August 26, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Landsea Group Co. Ltd. announced investments of more than $1 billion in the U.S. housing market over the next several years, NassauNewsLive tells MHProNews. The first projects will begin with residential developments in three of our nation’s largest housing markets: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To highlight the company’s entry into the U.S., …

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InvestorPlace says sell AMG, GFIG and TAXI

By / August 25, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

  This week, Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (AMG) drops from a C (a hold) to a D (sell) rating, says InvestorPlace to MHProNews. Affiliated Managers operates as an asset management company providing investment management services to mutual funds, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals in the United States. AMG’s stock has …

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Sales of SF New Homes hit 4 month low, Manufactured Housing Composite edges up

By / August 26, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

MarketWatch tells MHProNews that sales pace of new single-family homes fell to a four-month low in July, missing analysts’ estimates. The Dow closed up, the S&P 500 hit an all time high of 2000 before retreating. DOW 17,079.98 +78.76 +0.46%. NASDAQ 4,557.35 +18.80 +0.41%. S&P 500 1,998.28 +9.88 +0.49%. The …

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WCTrib Says Improvements Appreciated by Manufactured Home Community Residents

By / August 25, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Evictions of problematic residents and the removal of dilapidated homes are among the valued improvements the Churchill Group of Carbondale, Colorado have made at the Regency East and West manufactured home communities (MHCs) in Willmar, MN. “We’ve gotten rid of a lot of the (problematic) people that the former manager …

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NAHB and MHARR agree, even $1000 price increase Reduces potential Home Buyers

By / August 25, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released a study, cited by MHARR, that points to the fact that every $1,000 in price increase on a home decreases the number of potential home buyers by some 200,000 nationally. The study opens with the statement, “One of the often overlooked impacts …

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$1,000,000,000+ Property Damage in North Bay Earthquake, most Manufactured Homes Survive

By / August 25, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The north bay area, near Napa, CA was rocked Sunday August 24 by a 6.0 magnitude earth quake, followed by over 50 aftershocks. NBC Bay Area TV’s Vicky Nguyen tells MHProNews that some 33 buildings were red tagged by inspectors in Napa, while newer and more earth quake resistant city …

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SILVAR President Tonna says Internet, Education key for Today’s Home Buyers

By / August 23, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

David Tonna, President of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors (SILVAR), is on a mission to educate today’s home buyers, MercuryNews  tells  MHProNews. Some 90% of all home buyers begin their home shopping online. Most search for a property for 6 months before they contact a real estate agent. But …

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Big Houses Soar, MH Snore?

By / August 23, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Analyzing data released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), total U.S. housing starts in July advanced at the rate Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of 1.093 million units. ReedConstructionData noted to MHProNews  that this is the second highest level since November 2007 …

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Yellen Didn’t Help Markets; Yahoo Manufactured Housing Composite Value Rises, Dow Slips

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

U.S. stocks slipped amid Ukraine-Russian woes. Marketwatch tells MHProNews  that investors shrugged over a “balanced speech” by Federal Reserve Chairwoman, Janet Yellen. The S&P 500 SPX, -0.01% slipped by 1 point, or less than 0.1%, to 1,991, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.04% shed 10 points, also less …

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All Parks Alliance for Change Lobbying Congress opposing Minnesota Community Owners Support for a Floor Vote on the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (HR1779)

By / June 19, 2023 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Mark Brunner at the Manufactured and Modular Housing Association of Minnesota (MMHAMN) tells MHProNews that the All Parks Alliance for Change (APAC) is lobbying Congress to oppose The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (HR 1779). Brunner says APAC has sent out the following call-to-action statement to their members. “House …

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Residential Eyesores to be Renovated with Federal/Local Tax Dollars for Affordable Housing

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Clearwater (FL) Housing Authority will begin repairs on two single family houses and a building that will be used for multi-family housing use, that should be ready next year for low-income households. Jacqueline Rivera, the housing authority’s CEO, and Deborah Woodard, chairwoman of the housing authority board, said clean up …

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Affordable Housing Irony – hundreds on WilCo waiting list – near MH Production Centers

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“We obviously … have to have more affordable housing,” Nikki Brennan, executive director of the Georgetown Housing Authority, said. “I think [the need is] pretty much all over Williamson County [WilCo]” ImpactNews tells MHProNews that WilCo has some 500 people on the public housing waiting list, and more than 600 …

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“From Moscow, with Love?” Lawsuit advances against Manufactured Home Community Owner

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Residents of Syringa Mobile Home Park near Moscow-Pullman, Idaho have been in a struggle that bubbled up over their need for drinkable water and other issues. This began last winter, and resident Doris Carlson told KREM News that “I have wept an awful lot because I am tired of living …

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CFPB: What’s the difference between being pre-qualified and pre-approved for a loan?

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Amy Tierce, writing in the NationalMortgageNews, tells MHProNews that the CFPB’s website gives an answer to the question, What’s the Difference between being pre-qualified and pre-approved for a mortgage? but that the CFPB’s answer is not, Tierce says, “the full story.” Some lenders have decided, she says, to “not issue pre-approval letters due …

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Louisville Show is Approaching a Sell-Out

By / July 28, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

There are almost 6 months to go before the start of the 2015 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show, and booth space and manufacturers exhibit space is approaching a sell out.  MHProNews has learned there will be 2 new factory builders planning for the 2015 event, and apparently all the current manufactured …

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NBC News Today Show report shows Manufactured Home did as well as Conventional On-site Construction in hurricane high winds test

By / July 23, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“Regarding this previous portion of the test, IBHS indicated: “When one of these high wind-rated HUD-Code homes is installed on a permanent foundation, in most of the country, it would end up resisting wind storms better than surrounding site-built homes.” So stated a MHI President and CEO, Richard “Dick” Jennison …

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The Tunica Manufactured Housing Show Will Go On!

By / June 26, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Questions have been coming in about the status of the 2015 Tunica Show, given Harrah’s closure of the site where the manufactured housing show has been held for the past 17 years. Dennis Hill at Show Ways Unlimited, the trade show’s coordinator, has told us that alternative options are in …

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Tim Williams, 21st Mortgage, elected Vice-Chair during Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Summer Meeting

By / June 11, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The 2014 Summer Meeting for the  Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) concluded yesterday with Tim Williams, CEO of 21st Mortgage, was elected as Vice-Chair of the industry’s largest national trade association.  Williams, a respected industry icon, was unopposed. 97 industry leaders, plus MHI staff, friends and family attended the June 8-10 event …

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