With single-family home and condo prices rising in the San Francisco Bay area, along with rents, Marin real estate agent Laura Watts calls manufactured homes (MH) “the new condos,”according to marinij.com. For the first six months of this year compared to 2013 the median price of a manufactured home has …
MHProNews.com has learned from wsj.com that real estate investment trust (REIT) Sun Communities, Inc. has set its earnings release and conference call dates for the second quarter, 2014. The results will be announced before the market opens Thurs., July 24 with a conference to follow later that day at 11:00 …
Through a community enhancement program, Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities has been able to update existing manufactured homes (MH) and replace old homes with new ones in Crestway Bays in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, just outside Vancouver. Lachlan MacLean of Parkbridge, noting the 1970’s build era of many manufactured home communities (MHC) …
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From currentargus.com MHProNews has learned the oil and gas boom has hit Carlsbad, New Mexico, and with every apartment and motel room in town filled, people are sleeping on floors and living in backyard tents. In October 2013 the city approved temporary housing ordinances, and since then 100 travel trailer …
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The race for Delaware’s House of Representatives District 37 is pitting incumbent Republican Ruth Briggs King against manufactured housing community (MHC) resident and Democratic challenger Paulette Rappa in the Nov. election. King was first elected to the House in 2009, served on several legislative committees and is the Executive Director …
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Following a story MHProNews posted Feb. 28, 2014 about the closing of Spruces Mobile Home Park in Williamstown, Massachusetts due to persistent flooding, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant that triggered the closing will help provide the building of replacement housing with eight of the 14 households tagged for …
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Volunteers in Clinton Township, Michigan, just north of Detroit constructed a ramp to the manufactured home of Christian Falk so her 39 year-old amputee/stroke victim son could exit the home in his wheelchair, as told to MHProNews by macombdaily.com. Clinton Township Fire Chief John Shea, who initiated the project after …
Wheelchair Ramp Built for Manufactured Home by Volunteers Read More
In February, 2014 after occupancy at the 55+ Capital Estates manufactured housing community (MHC) in Sacramento, California dropped to 70 percent, the owners decided to convert the community into an all-age MHC, much to the dismay of current residents, as sacbee.com informs MHProNews. Community owners can legally drop the the …
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According to nasdaq.com, with a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 70.36, UMH Properties, Inc. is now in overbought territory. The RSI is a gauge used by technically-focused investors, where any number above 70 indicates an asset has been overbought. It compares the average of gains in days that closed up …
Touting the benefits of senior living manufactured home communities (MHCs), deseretnews.com reports manufactured homes, at $40,000-$45,000, are available to fit a retiree’s budget and offer style, function and space as well as tax-deductible interest on mortgage or lease payments, much like a site-built home. Most communities have recreational activities and …
Retirement Manufactured Home Communities Gaining in Popularity Read More
An article written by Allan Wallis about manufactured housing in 1984 continues to be relevant today, although the definitions in Drawn Quarters do not always resonate with governmental and regulatory agencies. He cites the four distinct periods of the industry, and their proper names: 1928-1940 travel trailer 1941-1954 house trailer …
According to etfdailynews.com, Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, said at the Sohn Investment Conference, “Single-family housing is overrated. Renting is more appealing across all age groups, all parts of the U.S., city, suburb, small town and rural.” Investor Bill Miller of Legg Mason disagreed, saying housing affordability and low …
Sam Zell: With Home Sales Skittish, Multifamily Rental is Good Investment Read More
BMO Capital Markets’ Senior Analyst Paul Adornato says the housing bubble has made mortgages tougher to get, leading people to manufactured housing (MH), and since manufactured home community owner Sun Communities, Inc. is poised to take advantage of the situation, their stock has been bumped up to an outperform rating, …
Housing Bubble Drawing People back to Manufactured Housing Read More
Patio Garden Mobile Home Community, a 90-site, senior manufactured home community (MHC) in Mesa, Ariz., was sold by Marcus & Millichap (NYSE:MMI) for $4.5 million, according to sddt.com. The transaction was part of a 1031 exchange for a San Diego apartment portfolio, MHProNews has learned. Douglas Danny, of M&M’s National …
The Easton, Mass. Board of Selectmen, acting as the town’s manufactured housing rent control board concerning residents of Easton Mobile Park request for reduced rents, heard more information from owner Morgan Management’s controller as well as from Justin DaMore of Meyers Environmental describing an inadequate sewer system for the community. …
As the Michigan home market continues to improve, lenders say they are seeing more millennials, those in their 20s to 30s, now buying homes, comprising 31 percent of home buyers. The uptick is reaching the manufactured housing (MH) market as well. As digitaljournal.com reports, Sharon Crowe of Parkhurst Homes in …
A questioner writes to “Anne” of the democratandchronicle.com in Rochester, New York, saying when she and her husband sold their manufactured home in a community and asked the community manager for the return of their security deposit, he replied they had to produce all three years of receipts because they …
A major player in the manufactured housing industry in Elkhart County, Indiana since 1964 passed away June 25. Jack Tuff, founder of Tops Mobile Home Centers and several manufactured housing communities, and an early supporter of what became the RV/MH Hall of Fame, began his MH career in Fort Knox, …
Five members of ROC-NH’s (resident-owned-communities-New Hampshire’s) have been honored with the organization’s Above & Beyond awards for outstanding volunteer work in their respective co-op communities across the state, according to communityloanfund.org. Neighbors at Windswept Acres Cooperative said of Raymond Davis and Roger Hebert they clear doors and shovel snow off …
Residents of Co-operatively Owned MHCs Awarded for Volunteer Efforts Read More
Fort, Myers, Florida-based Murex Properties has acquired the 273-homesite manufactured housing community (MHC) Ventura Lakes in Punta Gorda, FL for $12 million, in conjunction with Northwest Mutual. The 84-acre community was developed in 1998 and includes an 8,000 square-foot clubhouse with a library, fitness center, billiards room, stage, dance floor …
