A crane is used to piece together a modular home on a plot in the Capital Region by Farrell Homes, a modular home builder based in Grafton. Janine Smith had a plot of land and big plans to build a new ...

Residential housing investments can produce positive rates of return. After all, people need places to live and depending on supply, demand and market cycles, apartments and single-family rentals are ...

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 ...

Ty Sharp, a 26-year-old software consultant from Aspen, Colo., is building a 2,876-square-foot vacation home in Ventura, Calif. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom custom home, for which he’s paying ...

Question: Three years ago, we purchased a manufactured home that we installed in a mobile home park in the East Valley. Since then, we have had roof problems, and we now need a new roof. When we ...

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, ...

Mobile home loans are used to finance houses that are built in factories and then moved onto lots. These houses are also called manufactured homes. This practice differs from traditional "stick-built" ...

Real estate mogul Sam Zell's Equity LifeStyle Properties, the largest owner of RV and mobile home parks in the country, has reaped the rewards of increased demand from Americans in search of more ...

With around 25,000 vacant plots available from the city of Cleveland and the county land banks, the city and the Site Readiness for Goods Jobs Funds are trying to find a solution. Their idea: modular ...

Cassidy Horton is a finance writer covering banking, life insurance and business loans. She has worked with top finance brands including NerdWallet, MarketWatch and Consumer Affairs. Cassidy first ...