LA-based design studio Marmol Radzinder recently shared images of their Las Vegas, Nevada prefab home completed in 2009. The home, on a hillside location overlooking the city, consists of 36 prefabricated steel frame modules, which were assembled off-site while concurrently the foundation work being done on-site. This combination cut the …
As December rolls on, a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews’ home page. Our theme for this month is: DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016! To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link …
Recent projects from China’s People’s Architecture Office (PAO) have involved the firm producing outside-the-box ideas to tackle housing issues in China, including living in a ventilation shaft and a pedal-powered RV. Their latest creation is akin to those innovations. They’ve done a prototype prefabricated home that can be disassembled and moved relatively easily …
Prefab Homes That Can Be Taken With You When You Move Read More
Supermarket giant Tesco, along with other chains, are exploring a bold new solution to the housing crisis… and offsetting their costs. Tesco and the other groups are in discussions with Apex Airspace, a property developer that specializes in buying the air rights above existing buildings and adding modular housing units …
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that new home construction increased significantly in October. Privately owned housing starts were up 25.5 percent for the month, beating the revised estimate of 1.05 to 1.32 million in September. The number is also up 23.3 percent when compared year on year. …
Revolution Precrafted Properties, a company that brings together over 30 of the world’s preeminent architects, artists and designers to create an exclusive series of prefab, livable spaces, has announced three new designs by Paulo Mendes Da Rocha + Metro, Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas, and Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie Architects. According …
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Manufactured housing professionals know the benefits of living in a manufactured home. But tens of millions in the public have little or no clue. That high value proposition can include pre-HUD Code mobile homes, as well as post code manufactured housing. So there is on ongoing need for manufactured housing …
Lustron Stories, a new book by Cleveland photographer Charles Mintz, explores what it’s like to live in, and own, one of the historic all-metal Lustron homes. The story dates back to 1948 in Columbus, Ohio where they were manufactured over a period of two years. The mass produced, easy-to-assemble homes …
Historic Lustron PreFab Homes Draw Renewed Interest Read More
Noteworthy headlines on CNNMoney – FUBU CEO Stop and Frisked “Maybe 20 Times. U.S.: Wells Fargo Mistreated Military Members. WSJ Columnist Calls Trump “Unstable.” Why The Federal Reserve Isn’t Political. From WSJ: Ghost of Lehman Brothers Haunts Deutsche Bank. Some bullets from MarketWatch – ‘Housing party’ in the U.S. may be coming …
Houston County, MN commissioners chose to opt out of a recently enacted state law at their meeting on September 20th. Minnesota statute 394.307 (signed into law on May 12) “defines and regulates temporary family health care dwellings on residential property,” Houston County zoning administrator Aaron Lacher told the commissioners. According …
County Zoning Administrator Aaron Lacher Opting Out “Granny Pod” Law Read More
Home prices in the Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.) metro are expensive. The average price for a detached home in the Fraser Valley, for example, is $900,000. A typical condominium can set you back $248,000. Compare that to the typical manufactured home in B.C., which sells for around $80,000. According to …
The stock of Skyline Corporation (NYSE: SKY) hit a 52-week high of $12.72 last week, according to a recent report from BarChart. While the stock price has had its ups and downs throughout 2016, Skyline executives have kept a positive tone and goal-oriented approach, which has clearly paid off. Their …
Skyline Corporation Hits 52-Week High. Is Near-Term Analysis Positive? Read More
Booms in West Texas, North Dakota and the Marcellus regions due to oil and gas drilling may have tamped down for a time, but one (or more) of those may be bubbling back up. Shale Directories (SD) notes that, “Yes, $6.7 Billion in Spending Is Coming.” SD reports: multi-billion-dollar pipeline projects – …
These Manufactured Housing Industry News weekly recaps are a mix of headline news and commentary that tees-up each Sunday morning issue. That said, there are some weeks – like this one – where there are so many hot, interesting or newsworthy topics covered that it becomes difficult to decide which …
Sunday Morning Weekly Recap – Manufactured Housing Industry News Sept 4 to Sept 11, 2016 Read More
The U.S. Census Bureau maintains a wide array of statistical information, and that data includes manufactured housing, as industry veterans and enthusiasts know. The following charts are the most recent stats available from those reports, and they cover the period 2014, 2015 and part of 2016. Please note that Part …
New Manufactured Home Industry Shipments 2014-2016 Statistical Report – Part II Read More
A recent study by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) indicates that an average of some 24.3 percent of the price of a new house can have that cost traced back to regulatory impact. The NAHB study reflects costs of regulations from all levels of government: local, state and …
NAHB Report – High Cost of Regulations Impact Housing – and Manufactured Housing Read More
Redfin reported that so-called luxury home sales – defined as the top 5 percent of all housing on the market – were in retreat, in a report last May. On August 27, Tyler Durden’s ZeroHedge headline stated that “…Housing Markets In The Hamptons, Aspen And Miami Are All Crashing.” Reuters …
Luxury U.S. Home sales Slumping, What Does it Mean for Manufactured Housing? Read More
Manufactured homes are attracting positive media in markets where conventional housing has overheated or is difficult to obtain. Peace Arch News took a favorable look recently at the impressive value that manufactured housing offers in hot real estate markets, highlighting the Semiahmoo Peninsula, Washington, near the U.S. Canadian border. An …
Media Spotlights Manufactured Housing’s Value in Hot Markets Read More
Dutch entrepreneur Omar Kbiri has partnered with Amsterdam-based, architecture firm, Studio OBA. The duo designed a modular home that transforms according to the dynamics of the relationships within it. The “ready-to-split” floating houses were designed with their disassembly as a starting point. The unique concept was reported on by Mother …
“Prenuptial Housing” – Modular Homes Designed for Separation and Reunion Read More
MHProNews has learned from telegraph.co.uk that modular construction of homes in the United Kingdom (UK) may be key to hit their government’s target of constructing 200,000 homes per year to alleviate the severe housing shortage, and attain the one million mark by 2020. Last year only 142,890 homes were built …
From Factory Floor to Finished Flat: Modular Homes Seen as Key Housing Shortage Read More
