When Julie Johnson and her husband decided to purchase their own home, they turned to an unexpected place: Facebook Marketplace. One month and $52,000 later, a pre-owned 2,200 square-foot, ...

With affordable housing increasingly hard to find, many people are turning to manufactured homes as an alternative to rising ...

Factory-built, modular homes seem assured to have a substantial presence in rebuilding efforts after January’s wildfires. Companies tout modular’s speed and simplicity. But skeptics worry about risk ...

The rule makes existing manufactured homes meeting specific criteria eligible for financing under the programs, according to an announcement issued by the RHS this week. The new rule also “reduces ...

An analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Census Bureau over a five-year period shows that prices for manufactured homes have risen by nearly 60% as ...

Boulder’s long-awaited modular home factory is set to hold its ribbon-cutting ceremony next month. Construction on the 31,375-square-foot Boulder Mod factory began last August. Once the factory opens, ...

The increased attention to housing affordability has elevated the cause of manufactured homes, which account for 6 percent of the nation’s housing stock and a far higher share of its low-cost housing, ...

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Construction on both home types begins in factories, but they’re built to different codes. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of NerdWallet, but this ...

Peter Dodge and Sally Stetson’s modular home in Morrsiville Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur When Sally Stetson first saw mock-ups of the kind of modular home she now lives in, she thought, “Mm, no.” The ...