Canada Newswire reports Killam Properties, Inc. of Canada has declared a monthly dividend of $0.04833 per common share to be paid on Sept. 17, 2012 to shareholders of record on Aug. 31, 2012. Killam’s dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) offers shareholders the opportunity to reinvest their dividends in additional common shares. …
Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Killam Properties, Inc. announces it will release its second quarter 2012 financial results Wed. Aug. 8, 2012 after the market closes. The following day, Thurs. Aug 9, Killam will conduct a conference call at 12:00 noon eastern time to discuss the results. MHProNews has learned Killam is …
Yahoo!Finance says Elkhart, Indiana-based Skyline Corporation reports for fiscal year (FY) 2012 net sales increased 13% from $162,327,000 FY 2011 to $182,846,000. Manufactured and modular housing sales comprised $109,157,000 of the 2012 total, an 11% increase over the $97,922,000 net sales for 2011. FY 2012 net loss was $19,365,000 as …
JournalPioneer states Tim Banks, a member of the Board of Governors of Killam Properties of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and CEO of design and construction firm APM of Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada spent time at the Boys and Girls Club in Summerside, PEI. Killam and APM are each donating …
Lotwenterprise reports that modular builder Wincrief Homes of Kenora, Ontario, Canada received its certification from the Canadian Standards Association to supply municipalities and First Nation peoples with modular homes. Unlike the company’s ready-to-move (RTM) homes, modular homes are eligible for financing through banks. A subsidiary of Wincrief Forestry Products, the …
Citiadr reports Killam Properties, Inc., (TSX: KMP) based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, will release its financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2012 on Wed. Aug. 8, 2012 after the market closes. The following day, Thur. Aug. 9, a conference call will be held at 10:00 AM …
Calling the high cost of affordable housing the “single biggest obstacle to making Vancouver a more livable city,” Vancouver, British Columbia’s Mayor Gregor Robinson set up a competition to garner ideas for solutions, the Vancouver Sun tells MHProNews.com. The Mayor’s Task Force on Housing Affordability received 68 entries, including drawings …
While business may be good for housing suppliers to the oil and energy field projects in north central U.S., increasing populations of mostly single men in North Dakota are drawing a mixed reaction, Ohio tells MHProNews.com. With a population grown from 12,500 to over 20,000 in four years, primarily due …
Following up on a story we published April 5, 2012 concerning ATCO Structures and Logistics of Alberta, Canada opening a modular production facility in Pocatello, Idaho, Manufacturing reports the Idaho State Journal says ATCO held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wed., June 27 attended by Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad and company CEO …
TheGlobeandMail in Toronto says a study by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) last year revealed 20 percent of homebuyers in the U.S. are single women. In Canada more than 15 percent of the homebuyers in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland are women, about the same percentage as couples without children, …
SooToday says the Federal Government of Canada has announced a $31,500 grant to the Missanabie Cree First Nation people to cover legal expenses for the establishment of a modular home building plant that will employ First Nation peoples building homes for their members in the Sault Ste. Marie area. The …
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CalgaryHerald reports from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Igloo Prebuilt Homes in Acheson turns out a modular home each day. The “balanced air” model can save $300/mth in energy costs without a furnace. The walls are twice as thick as a conventional home with six-inch thick mineral wool insulation, producing an R-45 …
TheGlobeandMail tells MHProNews.com from Canada Quebec-based modular manufacturer Pro-Fab has acquired Guildcrest Building Corporation, a Morewood, Ontario modular home producer. Pro-Fab is actually part of Chicago-based Wynnchurch Capital, a private equity fund management company that had previously opened a Toronto office in 2009. Guildcrest has provided homes for first nations …
DigitalJournal tells MHProNews.com Killam Properties, one of the largest MHC owners in Canada, has sold a portfolio of 12 manufactured home communities comprising 2,032 home sites to Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (CAPREIT). The transaction increases CAPREIT’s holdings to 14 MHCs and 3,365 home sites. In a related …
UpdatedNews reports from Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada residents of Garden Village MHC have been told their community will be closed and the land will be redeveloped. The owners have offered each homeowner $11,000, twice what the government requires, but some of the more recent arrivals say they have spent upwards …
Writing in Vancouver, Canada’s North Shore News, Kevin Vallely states homes of the future will be more economically and environmentally sound. Noting the decline of the McMansions in favor of quality over quantity, he says homes will be smaller as energy-efficient, cost effective technologies and building practices incorporating greener alternatives …
As part of the agreement it signed last year with Killam Properties of Canada, Kuwait Finance House (KFH) announces it has acquired its second residential property in Canada, the 146 unit Kanata Lakes Apartments in Ottawa, for $42.5 million. As ArabianBusiness tells MHProNews.com, the first joint venture with Killam was …
TheChronicleHerald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada says P.J.C. Land Developments Ltd., headed by Paul R. Norwood, has proposed a retirement village of 350 modular homes just northeast of Halifax in Lake Echo. Sited in 50 clusters of seven homes each, Maple Leaf Homes of Fredericton will manufacture the homes, which …
As the energy and mining industries continue to expand in Canada, creating instant cities that last for 20-25 years and then disband, companies need to quickly get the project up and running while controlling costs, and government wants the economic impact/revenue without environmental upheaval. Instead of the old metal shelters, …
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From ReporterHerald in north central Colorado MHProNews.com learns the former site of modular home manufacturer Barvista Homes is the new home of PTI Group USA. Taking over a 103,000 square foot building, this producer of modular workforce accommodations for oil field workers is out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, but is …
