News Reports: Housing news updates and reports for Manufactured Home and Modular Housing Industry professionals and investors. Business – daily fact checks, market reports, and analysis.
It is useful in business to periodically step back and take stock in an objective and rational fashion. Some retailers in manufactured housing, for example, will hold a Monday morning sales meeting. How many deposits? Approvals? Denials? What can be done, if anything, to turn the TD into a financeable …
Any adult of sound mind capable of independent thought who has not yet figured out that politics impacts business, and business impacts politics, has arguably not been paying close enough attention. Additionally, someone doesn’t have to agree with constitutional Harvard emeritus attorney Alan Dershowitz, a self-proclaimed Democrat, to apply his …
“2021 was world’s 6th-warmest year on record,” said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) federal government website, which says the NOAA is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. “After two consecutive years (2019 and 2020) that ranked among the top three warmest on record, Earth was a slightly …
HUD Code “Manufacturers continue to pull those backlogs down through capital investments in their existing plants, bringing new plants online, and expanding their labor force. These measures should open up the order-flow spigots. Housing demand has remained strong, and investors are planning the greenfield development of several new manufactured-housing communities …
News can be marketing. Marketing can be news. Cavco Industries executives, alongside others that are involved in the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), are looking up from their coffee, tea or favorite beverage to a pairing of information from this review of recent JD Supra and Mondaq updates on Cavco’s SEC …
On January 4, 2022, Ginnie Mae (GNMA) welcomed new President Alanna McCargo. McCargo was unanimously confirmed by the Senate last December, GNMA tweeted on 12.15.2021. Ginnie Mae plays a key role in single family manufactured home lending under the HUD/FHA Title I loan program. That program has been all but …
Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) recently reported their ranking of Legacy Housing (LEGH) for their stock-investments focused readership. “Currently, LEGH sports a Zacks Rank of 1. Shares of Legacy Housing have appreciated 47.7% in the past six months,” they said. Additionally, that source noted on 1.10.2022 that “The Zacks Consensus Estimate …
Manufactured housing has an incredible story to tell, almost unbelievable, but evidence based and true. The tale of the evolution from trailer house to mobile home to manufactured housing to modern manufactured homes is worthy of several books or screenplays. The press release below tells part of that story through …
Give the corporate geniuses behind the curtain at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) their due. In selecting Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., to be the CEO of their purported insiders’ club – dubbed as a nonprofit trade association that claims to work for “all” – MHI corporate leaders picked a woman who …
As industry veterans with several decades of experience of knowledge of history know, for decades what was bad for mainstream conventional housing was a good indicator for an increase in manufactured home sales. That is why the report from Fannie Mae offers a potential for growth, “IF” industry leaders or …
Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) leaders have been formally asked to respond to a range of questions and concerns related to their performance on behalf of the manufactured housing industry’s companies and employees. The question has been posed to them because MHI claims to represent “all segments” of manufactured housing. That …
“A year after January 6 Capitol riot, hundreds face charges but questions remain, said CBS News on 1.5.2022. Some 19 paragraphs later, left-leaning the CBS report stated: “Thus far, no one has been charged with sedition — attempting to overthrow the government.” Just the News cut to a key point …
While other publicly traded companies that produce manufactured housing say they are interested in organic growth, among the larger publicly traded brands, Legacy Housing LEGH:Nasdaq) alone has eschewed buying out locations of their active competitors (mergers and acquisitions or M&A). Why such an obvious factual statement is commonly missed by …
What can the automotive market tell affordable housing advocates and manufactured housing professionals? To answer that question, a focused survey of automotive reports from a range of media sources will be followed by an MHProNews analysis and commentary that will draw some parallels and factual insights. “Used Cars And Trucks Command High Prices: …
“I first saw this story in 1972 and it is repeated every year since, or at least the same general theme. A shame it never comes to pass.” So said Marty Lavin in one of the last emailed comments to MHProNews for 2021. Lavin was referring to a what amounts …
Facts matter and can be eye opening. How did you ring in the new year? In our part of the affordable housing industry, there are reportedly some 75,000 full time professionals, stated the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) in research that likely needs updating. For roughly 1,000 hardy souls, between midnight …
Google’s data editor Simon Rogers once said, “You’re never as honest as you are with your search engine. You get a sense of what people genuinely care about and genuinely want to know.” That’s a paradoxical yet insightful lead into the report that follows. “I first saw this story in 1972 and …
There are an array of nonprofits, researchers, individuals, institutions, media, and other platforms which are keenly engaged in the battle for personal liberty and equal justice under law. During the course of the reports, analysis, and commentary in 2021 published by MHProNews, we have named and provided examples of several of …
Facts are what they are. Facts are stubborn things. Facts, evidence, and applied common sense do not kneel before those who would turn the nation at large, or our profession, into a modern version of a feudalistic society. As the runaway largest and most-read trade publications in manufactured housing for …
When the listing of the top ten manufactured housing states by production is provided, Florida now ranks #2 in the nation. Florida has surpassed New York in population, and thus also in Congressional seats. Florida “Gov. Ron DeSantis will call on lawmakers in 2021 to divest state investments in Chinese-owned …
