Program Allows Foreclosed Michigan Occupants to Remain
According to HousingWire.com, the Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response (DOFPR), in conjunction with law firm Potestivo & Associates, initiated a program last November allowing...
View ArticleDetroit May Go from Manufacturing to Farming
To follow up on a story we reported March 7, HousingWire reports Detroit has so many vacant houses it will bulldoze full blocks and turn the property into urban farming. Stephen Bancroft, executive...
View ArticleMHC Owner: “Don’t Tread on Me”
LivingstonDaily reports from Michigan the owner of a land lease community (LLC) does not want her property master-planned as a future MHC. Renee MacRitchie, the owner of Songbird Acres, says the...
View ArticleS&P Shows Home Prices Still Declining
Data released today by S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show decreases of 1.1 percent and 1.2 percent for the 10- and 20-City Composites in October vs. September. Nineteen of the 20 cities...
View ArticleDetroit, Houston Home Sales Tell Different Stories
HousingWire tells MHProNews that according to local MLS Realcomp, sales of homes and condos in the metropolitan Detroit area increased 2.2 percent in the last six months of 2011. This figure coincides...
View ArticleNAHB’s Improving Market Index Grows by 29 Metro Areas
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) identifies metro areas that have shown improvement in housing permits, employment, and house prices for six...
View ArticleAttention Shoppers: The Time to Buy is Nigh
In an rent vs. buy index of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the nation, Trulia has determined it is a wiser decision to buy in 98 of them. The top ten cities where buying a home is a better deal:...
View ArticleOld Auto Plant to Become Modular Home Factory
The crumbling Packard Motor Plant in Detroit, built in 1905 but closed in 1956, had tenants until the late 1990s and is now set to become a facility to build modular homes and offices. A family doctor...
View ArticleLarge Metro Areas see Home Prices Rise, says S&P Case Shiller
The S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices show an average price growth year-over-year in August of 12.8 percent for the 10-and 20-city composites, according to HousingWire. On a monthly basis, the...
View ArticleModular Home Manufacturing Plant Quashed
Updating a story MHProNews posted Oct. 28 regarding the repurposing of the crumbling Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit into a modular home manufacturing facility by a Texas doctor and her investors,...
View ArticleDetroit Auctioning 16,000 Abandoned Homes
Hit hard by the foreclosure process and now trying to fight the ensuing blight, not to mention being embroiled in bankruptcy, Detroit is beginning to sell off some of the 16,000 homes it owns due to...
View ArticleWheelchair Ramp Built for Manufactured Home by Volunteers
Volunteers in Clinton Township, Michigan, just north of Detroit constructed a ramp to the manufactured home of Christian Falk so her 39 year-old amputee/stroke victim son could exit the home in his...
View ArticleAll-cash Home Sales Fall Nationally, Save Several Metros
According to RealtyTrac, all-cash deals comprised 38 percent of all home sales in the second quarter of 2014, a drop from 42 percent in Q1 2014, as institutional buyers—those buying at least ten homes...
View ArticleGolden U.S. Housing Opportunities for Chinese Investors
Chinese investors have their eyes set on trouble Detroit, Michigan and other American markets, seeing great opportunities for housing investments. According to Financial Fuzz, “Mainland China residents...
View ArticleProgram Allows Foreclosed Michigan Occupants to Remain
According to HousingWire.com, the Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response (DOFPR), in conjunction with law firm Potestivo & Associates, initiated a program last November allowing...
View ArticleDetroit May Go from Manufacturing to Farming
To follow up on a story we reported March 7, HousingWire reports Detroit has so many vacant houses it will bulldoze full blocks and turn the property into urban farming. Stephen Bancroft, executive...
View ArticleMHC Owner: “Don’t Tread on Me”
LivingstonDaily reports from Michigan the owner of a land lease community (LLC) does not want her property master-planned as a future MHC. Renee MacRitchie, the owner of Songbird Acres, says the...
View ArticleS&P Shows Home Prices Still Declining
Data released today by S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show decreases of 1.1 percent and 1.2 percent for the 10- and 20-City Composites in October vs. September. Nineteen of the 20 cities...
View ArticleManufactured Home Community grabs positive media via New Clubhouse Construction
Work started this month on a new clubhouse and community center for Sterling Estates, a manufactured home community in Adrian Michigan, 72 miles southwest of Detroit. “We had a need for this, so it’s...
View ArticleTV Star Donates Modular Home, Provides Industry Recognition
In Detroit, Michigan, Shamayim “Mama Shu” Harris had a dream. That dream was to create a sustainable eco-village in the heart of her Highland Park neighborhood. “I converted my neighborhood from blight...
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