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Select bullets from CNN Money…
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- Americans aren’t tired of shopping just yet
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- Goldman Sachs is loosening its dress code
- Airports scramble to handle drone incidents
- Hedge fund wants L Brands to spin off Victoria’s Secret
- Harley-Davidson buys electric bike maker for kids
- Employees are tired of their companies paying lip service to diversity. They want real change
- FDA targets Walgreens as part of crackdown on sales of tobacco, e-cigarettes to minors
- The right way to ask for a job reference
- Papa John’s has finally found a way to move past its controversial founder
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- How to pay off your house ASAP
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- Abu Dhabi startup is using AI to transform classrooms
- China cuts taxes as it warns of ‘a hard struggle’ ahead
- Carlos Ghosn granted bail after 3 months in Tokyo jail
- How Huawei plans to fight back against the US
- Spotify just added a million new users in under a week
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- Volkswagen is really making the Dune Buggy
- Audi unveils its electric SUV concept
- This Bugatti is made entirely of Legos
- BMW and Toyota sound new alarm on Brexit
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- Michael Bloomberg, ex-New York City mayor, won’t run for president in 2020
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- Legendary economist on biggest socialism myth
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- Average ‘living wage’ needed to comfortably live in all 50 states
- $1.5B Mega Millions winner: Here’s the tax damage
- Kylie Jenner is the world’s youngest self-made billionaire
- Car prices at record highs: How to avoid sticker shock
- Papa John’s, ousted founder John Schnatter settle dispute
- Ambani, Ballmer lead world’s richest sports team owners: Forbes
- Private equity firms’ biggest earners last year
- Goldman Sachs hedges dress code, suits and ties now optional
- The new “firm wide flexible dress code” was announced in an internal memo.
- NCAA corruption: Former Adidas exec James Gatto, 2 others get jail time
- California’s failed bullet train: 100 billion reasons to return taxpayer money
- Dems may regret turning Ocasio-Cortez into a star: Varney
- Don’t blame millennials for lukewarm housing market
- Apple stock will benefit from 5G rollout: Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster
- Why you should invest in small-caps
- Charles Payne: Is a command economy really so awful?
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- Best retirement cities if you don’t have $1M saved
- Expanding Social Security for the rich (Huh?)
- Millennial Money: Make your funds move at the speed of life
Today’s markets and stocks, at the closing bell…
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Today’s MH Market Spotlight Report –
On right-of-center Fox Business, a new column with a video interview of Mitch Roschelle should be useful to those who wonder — where the growth is in manufactured housing?
Roschelle never mentions those two words, nor modular housing for that matter. No surprise. But the general points he is making about the housing market should cause “Management by Objective” (MBO) possibility thinkers in MHVille to sit up and take notice.
Here’s the video, followed by pull quotes of what he had to say.
Under the headline, “Don’t blame millennials for lukewarm housing market,” here are some pull quotes from an opinion column by Mitch Roschelle published March 05, 2019.
- The U.S. housing market is alive and well, and believe it or not, the so-called American Dream of homeownership remains intact — even for millennials.
- As our economy has slowly grown over the past ten years, the housing market has yet to return to the “glory days” of the past decade.
That failure to return to housing’s glory days is not because of economic reasons. He cites the kind of positive jobs and economic data that has often been referenced here on the Daily Business News on MHProNews.
The text under the video on Fox Business read, “Affordability the biggest obstacle for millennials in the housing market?” That’s in synch with other mainstream and MHProNews reports too.
But despite a good economy, the PwC partner said the following.
- Yet the housing market is not the driver of economic growth that it was a decade ago. In 2005, the housing investment and services represented 18.3 percent of GDP, in 2018 housing’s contribution to GDP comes in at 15 percent.
- The pace of new construction has returned to long-term averages, however, the volume of housing starts remains far from the peak hit in January 2006. By the same token, sales volumes of both new and existing homes are similarly falling short of historical norms.
- Given the data, the housing market appears to be sluggish, suggesting that the American Dream of homeownership may be fading. But homeownership remains very much desirable.
Its About Affordability…
Roschelle said:
- In fact, affordability is the true challenge facing would be homebuyers. Statistically speaking, the U.S. has formed more households (as measured by individuals moving out of their parent’s home) than we have built new housing stock. Cumulatively, according to the Census Bureau, there are more than 3.5 million individuals for whom new supply has not been built.
- Rising prices are a simple function of supply and demand. And the result of this excess demand over supply has driven both home prices as well as apartment rents to historically high levels.
While some of his data points are different than say, the National Association of Realtor’s (NAR) Lawrence Yun last year, his conclusions are similar in this sense. There has to be more building.
Says Roschelle:
- Truth be told, as the millennials came of home-buying age, they found less supply of housing stock available for purchase than any previous generation. And while I’m coming to the defense of millennials, let’s remember the global financial crisis is a recent memory for much of this generation. Investment trepidation is reasonable emotion for those who saw friends and family lose fortunes in the housing market.
- A decade later, those 37 and younger represent an increasing component of first-time homebuyers. In fact, according to the National Association of Realtors’ report, this cohort is the largest generational group of buyers, representing 34 percent of all first-time home buyers.
- Yes, the American Dream is alive and well for these individuals, with a median age of 31, they don’t seem to be putting off the home purchase decisions. Perhaps the most recent evidence of the vibrancy of the American Dream is the uptick in the homeownership rate. In the fourth quarter of 2018, the percentage of Americans owning a home rose to the highest level in nearly five years, according to data published by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- While many analysts bemoan the myriad “disappointing” monthly housing starts, the silver lining for the economy suggests that its strong growth is being driven by consumer expenditures and business investment. Meanwhile, the slowing pace of growth in housing prices at a time when mortgage rates remain relatively low, paves the way for first-time home buyers to take the plunge in pursuit of the American Dream.
Mitch Roschelle is a partner and business development leader at PwC. He has over three decades of experience advising clients worldwide. He’s a frequent commentator on FBN and FNC on business trends, market behavior, housing, the economy and policy matters in the public and private sectors.
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Don’t let anyone in the manufactured home industry give you the propaganda that things can’t be far more robust than they currently are. Those who make excuses are either ignorant or are trying to sell you on a negative notion that is disputed by reams of data, like Roschelle’s.
The time to step back, and rethink what’s causing the industry’s malaise is now. Because the potential is far greater than perhaps at any time in the industry’s history, including the glory days when over 500,000 homes were shipped 2 years in a row, or in 1998, when over 372,000 new HUD Code manufactured homes were shipped in a single year. If someone has done it before, why not do it again?
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