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Industry in the News
January 14, 2025
Texas lawmakers will have $194.6 billion to spend for the next budget, comptroller projects
What To Expect For Mortgage Rates In 2025
The Income Needed in Each State To Afford a … more
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Texas Manufactured Home Shipments Market Analysis
November Shipments
Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers in November came in almost spot on with the forecast missing by just 14 homes to land at 1,519 total homes shipped. In … more
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Manufactured Home Builders Stock Index
The Manufactured Home Builders Index (MHBI) dropped -13.8% in December, following the broader ITB residential construction index, which declined by -16.4% for the month. Housing stocks faced their … more
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Texas Manufactured Housing Sales Market Analysis
October Preliminary Data
New manufactured home sales in October titled to date are up a seasonally-adjusted +1.6% from the previous month, but are down -3.7% from October of 2023.
Seasonally- … more
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Average Sales Price of New Manufactured Homes in the South
The average sales price for multi-section homes in the South Census Region according to the Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) for July moved down -3.6% from the previous month to $149,000. The … more
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Producer Price Index for Manufactured Homes
The producer price data for manufactured housing continued to move sideways in November coming in +0.002% above the previous month. October’s value was revised up slightly. Wholesale prices have been … more
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Google Search Interest in Mobile Homes for Sale
Texans search interest in “mobile homes for sale” moved up in November a seasonally-adjusted +9.5% over the previous month. While search traffic remains low the up-tick in November marked the highest … more
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TMHA Retailer and Two-Time Former Chairman, Karl Radde, Receives National Award
We would like to join in on all the well-deserved congratulations to Texas retailer and two-time TMHA Chairman of the Board, Karl Radde’s, recent national award from MHI. MHI Chairman and president … more
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Cost Comparison of Manufactured Housing and Site-built Construction
According to the most recent annual data from the US Census Bureau manufactured housing continues to provide homeowners with considerable costs savings when compared to site-built construction.
The … more
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DOE Announces Delay in MH Energy Standards
TMHA is pleased to announce that the Department of Energy released Friday, May 29th, a revised final rule pushing back the effective date of the new manufactured housing energy construction standards. … more
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TDHCA Announces New Consumer Notice
The MH Division of TDHCA announced on May 16th a revised and consolidated Consumer Notice form. Formerly, the Consumer Notice was 6-pages long and there was a separate Formaldehyde Notice. The new … more
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HUD Code Changes Summary and Reference Guide
There has been a lot of talk over the past few months about the sweeping and significant HUD Code changes released back in September 2024. The rule changes comprise of 74 incorporated references … more
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Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Housing Service Final Rule Expanding Opportunities to Manufactured Housing in the USDA Program
On January 3, 2025, USDA published a final rule with the, “intent…to allow the Agency to give borrowers increased purchase options within a competitive market and increase adequate housing along with … more
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FinCen’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure – Jan 1, 2025 Deadline & CFPB Annually Adjusted Thresholds for 2025
FinCen’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure – Jan 1, 2025 Deadline on Hold Pending Recent Litigation and Injunction
This isn’t really TMHA’s field of expertise, so please check with your accounting … more
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From the 89th – Prefiled Edition
For those members like us here at TMHA thinking that January 14th can’t come fast enough, I have great news for you, filing of bills as already started.
We already have 1,791 and counting bills … more
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New Proposed and Pre-Proposed Rules for TX Modulars and Some MLO's Registered with OCCC
This is a general “around the horn” post about two recent Texas regulatory actions from TDLR (residential modular regulator) and OCCC (manufactured housing chattel lending regulator).
The TDLR … more
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CFPB Nonbank Registration Rule – Begins Oct 16, 2024
June 3, 2024, the CFPB finalized its federal rules for the creation of a new nonbank registry. This nonbank registry collects information about certain publicly available agency and court orders. … more
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Quick Review of the FTC Holder Rule
In a recent post by the Federal Trade Commission titled, “The FTC’s Holder Rule: still holding strong,” the federal regulator draws special and renewed attention to the “Holder Rule.” So, since the … more
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HUD Publishes Report – Eliminating Zoning Barriers to Affordable Housing
HUD was commissioned and funded through a federal award to the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders and working with Smart Growth America, to create a “guidebook” after looking at … more
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Build, Build, and Build – Need for Housing Supply Takes Center Stage in Top Political Discussions
On Tuesday, August 27, Texas Comptroller Glen Hegar’s office issued a 26-page report titled “The Housing Affordability Challenge.”
The report is the latest in a growing trend of top-level political … more
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TX Supreme Court Emergency Order Extending Deadlines in some JP Courts due to hurricane
The Supreme Court of Texas has issued an emergency order authorizing the modification of deadlines in certain justice courts affected by Hurricane Beryl.
Justice courts in Fort Bend, Galveston, … more
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US Supreme Court ruling impacting the future of federal regulations
Full disclosure…this post probably isn’t going to be super exciting for most of our members. But for my fellow uber-legal nerds out there dying to discuss the recent Supreme Court of the United … more
