As traditional home prices climb and mortgage rates remain high, more buyers are turning to factory-built housing as a realistic path to homeownership. Modular and manufactured homes are both built ...

Construction on both home types begins in factories, but they’re built to different codes. So you want to build a new home — but you’ve got sticker shock. In researching cost-effective options, you ...

Mobile home financing can be a traditional mortgage, chattel loan or personal loan. You need to show that you're a ...

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, ...

A manufactured home is any home factory-built in the U.S. to the HUD Title 6 construction standards (commonly known as ‘the HUD-code’). The HUD-code took effect June 15, 1976. A HUD-coded home will ...

When you hear the term modular homes, you probably think of something akin to mobile homes on cinder blocks—temporary solutions for would-be homeowners that are far from the dream homes they hope to ...

Manufactured, or mobile, homes are growing in popularity in an overheated housing market. Their cost is roughly half that of homes built on a permanent site. From 2014-2019, the median value of ...

Previously known as mobile homes, manufactured homes are an important source of affordable housing buyers can customize to fit their needs and financial situations. Although more affordable compared ...