Market Analysis

  • June 2016 Reports and July Preliminary Data

    This post is going to be a little different today, mostly because this story is too good not to share. Recall that I announced last week the release of our new Annual Manufacturer Shipments Report … more

  • May 2016 Reports and June Preliminary Data

    New titles for May were down about 7% from the preceding month, but outpaced May of 2015 by double digits for both multi-section (+13.37%) and single-section (+10.54%) homes. Greater Houston put up … more

  • April 2016 Reports and May Preliminary Data

    New titles for April reversed course from the big month-over-month gains we saw for February and March, falling 9.21% over the preceding month. The market experienced a similar drop last year at … more

  • March 2016 Reports and April Preliminary Data

    New titles for March multi-section homes kept up the +30% pace over the preceding month that they turned in last release. New title growth for single-section homes slowed, posting slight gains over … more

  • February 2016 Reports and March Preliminary Data

    Retailers turned in a strong February and were up across the board for new titles over last month and February of last year for both single and multi-section homes. The preliminary data for March … more

  • January 2016 Reports and February Preliminary Data

    The first month of 2016 closed out down across the board for new homes trailing both December 2016 and January 2015 totals.

    February shipments were down slightly over the preceding month and … more

  • December 2015 Reports and January Preliminary Data

    Retailers had a good December as new titles moved up above Novembers totals reversing the Q4 decline, while continued strength in the multi-section market put total homes for the month over … more

  • November 2015 Reports and December Preliminary Data

    New titles followed the typical mid-fourth quarter decline in consumer demand and also continued the 2015 trend of higher multi-section home titles over 2014, though just barely this time around. … more

  • October 2015 Reports and November Preliminary Data

    New titles were down for both single-section and multi-section titles compared to last month and to October of 2014. While the declines were fairly large, last October was a particularly good month … more

  • September 2015 Reports and October Preliminary Data

    New single-section home titles moved back up above multi-section totals for the month of September and showed solid gains over August and over September of last year. Those gains weren’t quite … more