With favorable mortgage rates and incomes rising as stimulus, new home sales rose nine percent November year-over-year, and four percent above October, according to statistics from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to themortgagereports. Nationwide mortgage rates are around four percent, and with …
The Greater Manchester Property Value Fund (GMPVF), part of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, has agreed to underwrite the development of 43 modular homes, in an agreement with Urban Splash, at New Islington, Manchester, in the UK. Nathan Cornish, director of Urban Splash, said: “The deal is a huge endorsement …
According to a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), as nationalmortgagenews tells MHProNews, the Dodd-Frank Act is expected to have a $100 million impact on the bottom lines of community banks and credit unions in the form of higher expenses and forgone revenues. Regulators continue to verify actual …
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The overall amount of fraud risk in home loan documents has been falling, according to what scotsmanguide tells First American, having dropped by 8.2 percent year-over-year Nov., and down 1.3 percent from Oct. to Nov., 2015. First American’s Loan Application Defect Index has dropped 23.5 percent since it reached its …
This graphic from the Virginia Manufactured and Modular Housing Association (VAMMHA) offers a slightly different view of the shipments of HUD Code homes, comparing 2014 to 2015, and broken down into categories. As MHProNews understands, the entire report, from the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) is broken down …
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According to themortgagereports, home values have reached new highs for the first time in eight years, since early 2007, but not adjusted for inflation. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) publishes the Home Price Index (HPI) which reveals that property values rose +0.5 percent in October, marking the 23rd consecutive …
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MHProNews has learned that usmodularinc reports Europeans have been eying the U. S. housing market for years with their improved technology in the area of prefabricated homes, and have begun to jump in, much like the Japanese did with small, high mileage, inexpensive cars. Eschewing converting an existing building to …
U. S. Modular Home Builders need to Sharpen their Saws Read More
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) gave lenders a slight reprieve on the Know Before You Owe rule that provides borrowers with all the charges, fees and line items three days before closing instead of at closing, saying they will not be held accountable for most minor errors in loan …
Lenders Receive Reprieve on Minor Errors in Closings Read More
According to builderonline, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHI) slipped 0.9 percent from Oct., although it is still 2.7 percent ahead of last year at this time. The drop is considered to be more seasonal than substantive. …
With a labor and available lot squeeze driving up the price of site-built homes, bloomberg reports modular homes present a viable alternative, less costly and a quicker build time than site-built, although in appearance, they might be very little different than site-built. The median construction cost for modular comes in …
Modular Home Builders Pushing to Dispel Myths of Factory Built Homes Read More
A Long Island, NY contractor, Andrew Troiano, and his firm Alt Design & Construction Consulting, Inc., have been charged with stealing over $175k from three victims, two of whom were to receive modular homes to replace their homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy on Breezy Point, according to theforumnewsgroup. The third …
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The owner of two unfinished sections of a modular home in the Village of East Aurora, New York has been ordered to remove the units from his property within 30 days for not bringing them up to code. When John Apgar purchased the homes from a BOCES school in 2013 …
Maureen Rude, the former director of the Montana Fannie Mae Partnership office and executive director of the Montana Board of Housing, will become the new Executive Director of NeighborWorks Montana in Jan., 2016, according to greatfallstribune. Rude has served as director of lending and operations for eight years. The previous …
MHProNews has learned from bloomberg that new home sales rose in Nov. 4.3 percent to an annualized pace of 490,000, slower than the 505,000 median estimate of economists surveyed by bloomberg. Previous estimates ranged from 400,000 to 550,000. The rate in Oct. was 470,000. Home sales have been choppy throughout …
Following the devastation caused by Typhoon Soudelor, which slammed into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) on Aug. 2, 2015, the GreenStay two-bedroom modular house made of old shipping containers at the Garapan Fishing Base has received well over a thousand visitors since opening to the public last …
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews the so-called “new” duty to serve (DTS) rule issued by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Dec. 18, 2015, much like the original 2010 implementation, continues the exclusion of manufactured home (MH) chattel loans, which make up some 70 percent …
MHARR Criticizes FHFA for Continuing to exclude Chattel Loans Read More
Following a story MHProNews last published Nov. 16, 2015 regarding the Mojave County, Arizona’s Board of Supervisors attempt to limit siting in the county of manufactured homes no older than seven years old, the mojavedailynews reports the board took no action at Monday night’s meeting. Retailers, installers, manufactured home owners …
Arizona County Postpones Ruling on Siting Older Manufactured Homes Read More
“The new rules are the reason I drink,” said Joe Parsons, a senior loan officer at mortgage lender PFS Funding in Dublin, California, referring to the federal home disclosure rules created to give borrowers more time to review documents. He says because the new rules are extending closing times beyond …
