Virginia County Prepares to Exit Housing Slump
From Virginia and the Tidewater News, MHProNews.com finds a tale about housing woes there. One builder quoted in the article says he went an entire year without a housing start. The article confirms,...
View ArticleBuffett Offers Matching Contributions to U.S. Treasury
Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, parent company to Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers, has offered to donate some...
View ArticleBeige Book: Economy Expanding Manufacturing on the Rise
Contact reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that national economic activity expanded at a modest to moderate pace during the reporting period of late November through the end of...
View ArticleFreddie Mac Provides Economic Outlook
Freddie Mac released today its U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for January this week showing that while the economy is undoubtedly in a better place than the same time a year ago, a speedy...
View ArticlePresident Proposes Mortgage Refinance Program
In his State of the Union Address Tuesday, President Barack Obama proposed a mortgage refinance program to help homeowners take advantage of the current low interest rates. The president says he is...
View ArticleSurvey Provides Insight into Views on Homebuying
A recent survey from MetLife provides some insight into generational views on housing and finance. According to the survey, Multi-Generational Views on Family Financial Obligations, most do not believe...
View ArticleLouisville 2014: Manufacturers Space Sold Out
With almost 5 months before the show starts, Dennis Hill with Show Ways Unlimited has told MHProNews that the manufacturers floor space is sold out. This is a good sign of the momentum being built...
View ArticleEmergency Quadruple Bypass Surgery for RV/MH Hall of Fame President Darryl...
Darryl Searer, president, RV/MH Hall of Fame is progressing well today after undergoing a successful emergency quadruple bypass surgery yesterday morning at the Memorial Hospital in South Bend,...
View ArticleMHC Residents Protest City, FEMA Decision
Residents of Fox Point manufactured home community in Wheeling, IL protested the town and FEMA’s actions that could keep them from re-occupying homes damaged in floods last April. The dailyhearld tells...
View ArticleBuilder Provides Manufactured Housing for Fellow Vets
When hearing of the need of older military veterans for housing, former Green Beret and successful home builder Richard Simonian took up the challenge and now has 7,000 homesites in 40 manufactured...
View ArticleFriday 13th Senate Companion Bill for HR 1799/MH Avoided
Informed sources told MHProNews on Friday that the companion bill to HR 1779 – The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2013 – was about to be filed. A source close to Oklahoma Senator Tom...
View ArticleManufactured Housing’s New Year, 2014!
MHProNews will launch it’s January 2014 issue on Thursday, January 2. Factory-built housing in general – and manufactured housing specifically – continues to go through significant changes, with three...
View ArticleMHARR’s HUD/MHI Missive: on the record, “No Comment,” but off the record…
MHARR’s president “broadsided” HUD – as well as MHI – on Thursday, January 29th with an emailed release. The timing seemed odd, observers told MHProNews, as this took place in the immediate aftermath...
View ArticleFree Manufactured Housing Finance, Business Seminars and Forecast
Some 2100 +/- manufactured housing industry professionals from all segments of the industry are expected at the 2014 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show. Registrations have come in from states coast to...
View ArticleTim Williams, 21st Mortgage, elected Vice-Chair during Manufactured Housing...
The 2014 Summer Meeting for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) concluded yesterday with Tim Williams, CEO of 21st Mortgage, was elected as Vice-Chair of the industry’s largest national trade...
View ArticleLouisville Show is Approaching a Sell-Out
There are almost 6 months to go before the start of the 2015 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show, and booth space and manufacturers exhibit space is approaching a sell out. MHProNews has learned...
View ArticleSILVAR President Tonna says Internet, Education key for Today’s Home Buyers
David Tonna, President of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors (SILVAR), is on a mission to educate today’s home buyers, MercuryNews tells MHProNews. Some 90% of all home buyers begin their...
View ArticleCNBC says 5 to 6 Million Renting Should Own – Affordability = Credit Access,...
Tim Rood with the Collingwood Group was part of a CNBC discussion that pointed to factors that manufactured home professionals relate to: the many – and often competing – dynamics that cause someone to...
View ArticleSunday Morning Manufactured Housing Daily Business News Weekly Recap –...
As the name implies, we’re launching a new MHProNews feature that will make it easier for the Sunday morning coffee drinker to pick up their tablet, smartphone or laptop and catch up on news as it...
View ArticleEquity Lifestyle teams up with agency in Twin Cities Suburb for a youth...
Families in the Lake Elmo, Minnesota manufactured home community of Cimarron Park are getting a much desired center for youth. The area is mainly occupied by low-income families which have struggled...
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