Fed Reports Increased Real Estate Activity
Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that overall economic activity continued to increase at a modest to moderate pace in January and early February. The Fed reports manufacturing...
View ArticleQ2 2012 has Few Economic Bright Spots
AnchorageDailyNews reports retail sales fell for the third consecutive month in June, the first time that has happened since the fall of 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. Sales of...
View ArticleConsumer Confidence Gains, but Slowly
The Olympian reports while the Consumer Confidence Index of The Conference Board increased for the first time in five months, from 62.7 in June to 65.9 this month, the index is well below 90, which...
View ArticleEconomy Continues Sputtering Forward
AnchorageDailyNews tells MHProNews consumer spending in July rose 0.4 percent over June, the best rate in five months, following no change in June and a small decline in May. Retail spending offset...
View ArticleIs the Worst Over?
The news-times says data from the Census Bureau shows 36.5 million people, 12 percent of the population, moved to a new home this year, up from a record low of 11.6 percent in 2011. The most mobile...
View ArticleFor Profit and Non-profit Collaborate To Alleviate Storm Damage
Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley and non-profit National Equity Fund, Inc. (NEF) have added $75 million to their joint Rebuilding Local Economies Fund to help provide replacement housing...
View ArticleThe Fed Says Housing Market Slowly Rising
HousingWire informs MHProNews the Federal Reserve’s February Beige Book of growth in economic activity indicates the real estate market in almost all the districts recorded strong improvement as...
View ArticleHousing Market may Surpass Manufacturing
Reuters informs MHProNews despite the tightness of credit for residential mortgages, the housing market is threatening to take the lead from manufacturing in terms of overall economic activity, as home...
View ArticleEconomists Expect Home Construction to Rise nearly 20%
MoneyMorning tells MHProNews residential construction is currently 2.44% of the gross domestic product (GDP), half of its historical norm, even with last year’s increases in new home construction....
View ArticleU. S. Housing and Economic Progress is Making Haste Slowly
San Jose, California led 119 of the 340 metro housing markets nationwide in returning to or exceeding their last normal levels of economic and housing activity in Q1 2016. The markets are gauged by...
View ArticleQ2 Best Economic Growth in Years, Per Federal Data, MHVille Insights
There are numerous points that mainstream media pundits are passing over or missing in the latest economic report. Certainly, the major news outlets fail to mention manufactured housing (MH) at all...
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