Manufactured and Modular Home News

Manufactured homes can offer home buyers a plethora of ownership opportunities for those priced out of today’s expensive site-built housing market.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average new manufactured home will cost nearly one-half the price of a new site-built home. The U.S. [...]

Trenton – Legislation sponsored by Senator John Burzichelli and Senator Paul Moriarty that would give homeowners in manufactured home communities the opportunity to keep their homes by purchasing the parks before they are sold or converted for other uses was approved by the Senate on December [...]

The Manufactured Housing Association of Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Hud Code manufactured housing industry year-over-year production declined slightly in May 2025. Just [...]

Updating HUD Code to allow the removal of the chassis could both make homes more affordable and provide developers with greater design flexibility to meet the wants and needs of a diverse range of communities and neighborhoods. According to the Niskanen Center, a public policy think tank. [...]

Question:  Which comes first, the manufactured home or the placement site? Answer: Both – “Putting the cart before the horse” is often applicable to purchasers of new manufactured homes. Certainly understandable for those falling in love with today’s modern manufactured home, and signing [...]

Recently, the House Committee on Financial Services subcommittee on housing and insurance led by Chairman Mike Floyd (NE-01), held a hearing to explore opportunities  to expand consumer choice and existing housing supply through the use of innovative housing products. Members examined the [...]

 (Note: The following is condensed from a report by MH Insider- Magazine) The Midwest Manufactured Housing Federation will host the Louisville Show Jan.14-16 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. The federation is composed of five member state associations – Illinois, [...]

Champion Homes, Inc. has announced that its joint venture partner, ECN Capital Corp., will be acquired by an investor group led by Warburg Pincus, with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of 2026. As a part of the transaction, Champion Canada Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of [...]

Relentless escalation of site-built home prices and extraordinary high mortgage interest rates, combined with a multitude of inflationary pressures, is forcing many would-be buyers to put their homeownership dreams on hold, as the cost of homeownership slips out of their financial reach. But it [...]

(Source: The Motley Fool)  – The third home construction performance outlier honors go to (CVCO 0.98%), a Phoenix-based maker of manufactured homes that’s up 28% YTD as consumer demand for affordable housing remains strong. In Cavco’s second quarter results, released Nov. 6, CEO Bill Boor [...]

The following are brief descriptive capsules of the most preferred loan types available to manufactured home purchasers, as well as other financing programs that may or may not serve the interest of manufactured home retailers and/or manufactured home purchasers. Note: Manufactured home [...]

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain   There are numerous reasons why manufactured homes remain the housing choice for senior retirees. Many healthy retirement, low and middle-income workers are living longer, and in many instances [...]

Truism:  “People don’t buy features; they buy benefits” Shoppers (walk-ons) visiting a model home sales center display will often be initially reluctant to reveal information about their wants and needs in a new manufactured home. Sometimes the response when you ask them what they have in mind [...]

Source: Manufactured Housing (MHI) Report Highlights —  August shipments of new HUD Code manufactured homes totaled 8,688, a decline of 8.4% from total shipments in 2024. Year-to-date 2025 shipments totaled 70,757, an increase of 3.2.%  The seasonally adjusted year-over-year annual rate of [...]

Cavco Industries, midway through the celebration of its 60th year in business, has announced it is unifying its extensive manufacturing brand lineup under the Cavco name, strengthening its national brand identity and recognition. The repositioning leverages the resources, experience, and vision [...]