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TREO Reviewing All State Agencies, including MH TDHCA and IHB of TDLR

Created in 2025 out of S.B. 14, the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office (TREO) is a new department within the governor’s office. They are tasked with reducing, “regulatory burdens and unnecessary rules and increase transparency for...

2023’s “Death Star Bill” on Preemption has June Interim Hearing

On June 4, the Texas House Select Committee on Governmental Oversight held an interim hearing to review both the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act and the Texas Tort Claims Act. The Texas Regulatory Consistency Act came...

Texas Manufactured Home Shipments Report April 2026 - Market Analysis & Data

April Shipments Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers moved up 0.3% in April on a seasonally-adjusted basis from the prior month. Year over year, shipments were 3.7% below April of 2025, but were very near...

Manufactured Home Builders Stock Index (MHBI) May 2026 - Performance Analysis

The Manufactured Home Builders Index (MHBI) finished May up +1.4%, while the broader ITB residential construction index finished down -3.4%. The residential construction sector fell as a whole while tech stock gains pushed the S&P...

Austin City Council Passes Rental Fee Transparency Ordinance - Impacting ATX MHC Owners

May 28, 2026 – Landlords operating five or more rental units or manufactured home lots within the City of Austin, including those who lease lots for manufactured housing, will soon be required to disclose the...

Texas Primary Run-Off Results

On May 26, across the state, 37 primary races advanced to runoff elections. TX U.S. Senate - Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton ran in the high-profile election with more than $135M spent...

TMHA Sponsoring Texas Municipal League Annual Conference & HUD-Code Home Display

For the first time ever, TMHA will sponsor and showcase a HUD-code manufactured home at the Texas Municipal League (TML) Annual Conference this November in San Antonio. TML’s three-day Annual Conference is one of the...

Summary of the TDLR IHB May 14 Code Council Meeting – Increased Enforcement and Compliance Efforts

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Industrialized Building Code Council, the Texas governmental body overseeing commercial and residential modular construction, met on May 14. Several general staff reports were presented for those interested in...

Texas Manufactured Housing Market Report March 2026 - Sales Data & Analysis

March Early Look New manufactured home sales for March 2026 titled to date are so far down a seasonally-adjusted 4.4% from the previous month but are running 14.6% above March of 2025 as the titling...

Texas Manufactured Home Prices 2025 - Average Sales Price Analysis & Trends

Manufactured Home Average Selling Prices - December 2025 Multi-section Homes The average sales price for multi-section homes in the South Census Region was $160,700 in December 2025, down 2.7% from November. The December 2025 value...

"Mobile Homes for Sale" Google Search Trends Texas April 2026 - Market Demand Analysis

Google Search Interest: “Mobile Homes for Sale” in Texas Texans search interest in “mobile homes for sale” moved up a seasonally-adjusted 4.1% in April from the previous month, continuing the recovery from the February series...

Manufactured Home Producer Price Index April 2026 - Wholesale Pricing Trends

Manufactured Home (PPI) The Producer Price Index (PPI) for manufactured housing rose 0.7% in April from the previous month. The PPI is a national index for producer pricing and is currently up 2.1% above the...

Texas Sales Tax Treatment & Resale Certificate Options – HUD-Code, Modular, Oilfield, “No-Code,” and Data Center Housing

Several years ago, the Texas manufactured housing industry experienced a major increase in production and sales tied to oilfield housing demand. With energy prices increasing again, that market is returning. At the same time, another...

A Door is Opening for Manufactured Housing Across Texas

The Texas Legislature has passed the most significant expansion of manufactured housing rights in decades. Senate Bill 785, which TMHA supported and takes effect September 1, 2026, will require most Texas cities with zoning regulations...

S.B. 38 – Extensive Eviction Law Reform and New Rules for Court

Recall, that the 2025 Legislative Session had several bills pass making significant legal changes in the body of laws governing the landlord/tenant relationship and evictions. TMHA previously posted about the new laws and the coming...

New 2026 HPML Thresholds

The OCC, Federal Reserve Board, and CFPB have published [90 FR 58141] a final rule amending, respectively, the 12 CFR Part 34, 12 CFR Part 226, and 12 CFR Part 1026 special appraisal requirements for...

New Consumer Disclosure and SO Application Forms; New TX Regs

Change is in the air. This post addresses several of the recent form and regulation changes for licensees in the manufactured housing (MH) industry of Texas. Make sure your processes have been updated to use...

Industry in the News

November 12, 2025Adamek presides over TMHA conventionFederal Law Says Manufactured Homes Must be Movable. Changing That Could Unlock an Affordable Housing BoomIn an industry first, the company begins CHOICEHome financing for modern single-section factory-built homesHow...

New Anchoring Standards Coming for Alternative Foundation Systems Nov 3rd

Most in the industry have seen the emails and joint letters from the three major foundation design companies (Minute Man, Oliver Technologies, and Tie Down Engineering) announcing the implementation of vertical anchors in Wind Zone...

Clarification of Statement of Ownership Filing Timelines to Avoid Violations

We hope everyone has seen the MH Division of TDHCA’s recent announcementproviding clarification on how to fill out block 4(d) at the bottom of page one for the Statement of Ownership Application. Just in case,...