Industry News

• Manufactured Home Builders Stock Index (MHBI) May 2025 - Performance Analysis

  June 07, 2025 - The Manufactured Home Builders Index (MHBI) moved lower in May with an -18.3% decrease from the previous month after the companies comprising the index announced earnings below Wall Street targets. The broader ITB residential construction...

• "Mobile Homes for Sale" Google Search Trends Texas April 2025 - Market Demand Analysis

  May 17, 2025 - Texans search interest in “mobile homes for sale” moved down a seasonally-adjusted -2.3% in April from the previous month setting a new low for search volumes. There was a steady decline in search volume from...

• Texas Manufactured Home Prices 2024 - Average Sales Price Analysis & Trends

  May 17, 2025 - Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) for December moved down -2.2% from the previous month to $148,300. The average multi-section selling price was +1.9% above the December of 2023 average price nominally but was down -1% after...

• TMHA Members of Odessa Stand Up for Manufactured Housing

  May 07, 2025 - In a previous post we outlinedthe City of Odessa's consideration of removing manufactured housing from eight of the ten zoning districts that they are currently allowed in, and now TMHA would like to highlight the...

• From the 89th – TMHA Priority Bill Heads to Gov’s Desk

  May 05, 2025 - TMHA’s advocacy efforts had a great week last week. Our priority bill this session, S.B. 1341, passed out of the full House on Friday afternoon. The bill had already passed through the Senate, so when...

• Texas Manufactured Home Shipments Report March 2025 - Market Analysis & Data

  May 05, 2025 - March Shipments Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers in March moved down a seasonally-adjusted -4.4% from the previous month. The 1,498 total homes shipped for the month was on the low side of the forecast...

• Manufactured Home Producer Price Index April 2025 - Wholesale Pricing Trends

  April 21, 2025 - The producer price index for manufactured housing moved up +0.9% in April over the previous month marking the highest wholesale pricing since December of 2022. The three previous months were revised down with this release....

• Texas Manufactured Housing Market Report February 2025 - Sales Data & Analysis

  April 21, 2025 - February Preliminary Data New manufactured home sales in February titled to date moved up a seasonally-adjusted +7.6% from the previous month’s sales but are down -12.4% from the 29 day February of 2024. The additional...

• City of Odessa Consideration of Removing MH as Permitted Use

  April 21, 2025 - The City of Odessa is considering removing manufactured housing as a permitted use in all of its zoning districts - General Residence, University, Retail, Light Commercial, Heavy Commercial, Light Industrial, and Planned Development Districts. This...

• TMHA’s 2025 Offensive Playbook – The Bills We are Working to Pass

  March 20, 2025 - TMHA is actively working to advance six bills this session that are MH industry specific (i.e. the Good): HB 3527 by Rep. McQueeny & SB 1341 by Sen. Handcock - relating to the regulation of...

• Texas’ First Tenants Right of First Refusal, and Personal Property MH Killer

  March 20, 2025 - At the risk of exhausting my metaphor from my previous post that highlighted this session’s offensive playbook, we all know a team’s defensive is just as, if not more, important than its offense. Added to...

• Bills Added to TMHA Defense List on County Land Use Authority at Filing Deadline

  March 20, 2025 - And finally, our previous posts have already detailed many of the bills that we have identified as having a possible negative impact on our industry. Most of these bills fall within the landlord/tenant laws or...

• From the 89th – County Zoning and Land Use Bills

  March 04, 2025 - HB 878 by Vasut Bill grants all Texas counties with a population of less than one million, that have more than two houses per acre, essentially complete land use and zoning equivalency controls over housing....

• From the 89th - Bills Targeting Manufactured Home Communities

  March 04, 2025 - HB 2904 by Simmons This is rent control This is effectively a 5% max rent control and targeted directly at MH communities The 5% maximum is triggered when the house is “affordable housing” which is...

• From the 89th – Landlord/Tenant Bills TMHA Opposes

  March 04, 2025 - HB 577 by Bucy Increases notice to vacate on evictions from 3 to 14 days HB 798 by Walle & SB 882 by Cook Massive landlord/tenant law reform, includes nearly every pro-tenant provisions compiled from...

• HUD Code Changes Summary and Reference Guide

  January 13, 2025 - 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 within the...

• Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Housing Service Final Rule Expanding Opportunities to Manufactured Housing in the USDA Program

  January 13, 2025 - 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 an enhanced customer experience...

• From the 89th – Prefiled Edition

  December 02, 2024 - 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 have1,791 and counting bills that...

• FinCen’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure – Jan 1, 2025 Deadline & CFPB Annually Adjusted Thresholds for 2025

  December 02, 2024 - 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 professionals, but the federal FinCen Beneficial...

• New Proposed and Pre-Proposed Rules for TX Modulars and Some MLO's Registered with OCCC

  December 02, 2024 - 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 Industrialized Housing and Building Code Council, which...

• TMHA Retailer and Two-Time Former Chairman, Karl Radde, Receives National Award

  October 13, 2024 - 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 and CEO of...

• CFPB Nonbank Registration Rule – Begins Oct 16, 2024

  October 13, 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. Essentially enforcement allegations, actions, infractions,...

• HUD Publishes Report – Eliminating Zoning Barriers to Affordable Housing

  October 13, 2024 - 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 the various barriers to...

• Quick Review of the FTC Holder Rule

  October 13, 2024 - 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 regulator thought it...

• Build, Build, and Build – Need for Housing Supply Takes Center Stage in Top Political Discussions

  August 28, 2024 - 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 voices focusing explicit policy on...

• TX Supreme Court Emergency Order Extending Deadlines in some JP Courts due to hurricane

  July 15, 2024 - 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, Harris, Matagorda, and Montgomery counties that...

• Industry in the News

  July 10, 2024 - July 10, 2024 Supreme Court shifts power over federal regulations from agencies to judges Supreme Court Ruling Reins In Federal Bureaucrats FANNIE - Unaffordability Expected to Remain Primary Constraint on Home Sales Pre-Fab Houses Selling...

• US Supreme Court ruling impacting the future of federal regulations

  July 09, 2024 - 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 States (SCOTUS)...

• New Final Rules for MH and Modular Homes in Texas

  June 19, 2024 - MH TDHCA – New 3rd Party Initial Testing Following unanimous approval by the MH TDHCA Board and posting in the Texas Register on June 14, 2024, the most recent changes to the Manufactured Housing Rules...

• TMHA Comments on Texas Water Development Board 2024 State Flood Plan

  June 19, 2024 - The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) accepted public comments this week on its Draft 2024 State Flood Plan. TMHA submitted our public comments, and we know several other real estate trade associations did as well....

• Manufactured Home vs Site-Built Cost Comparison 2023 - Price Per Square Foot Analysis

  June 17, 2024 - 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 average price per square foot of a...

• TDLR Pushes Back Modular IRC Code Compliance Date

  April 11, 2024 - TDLR recently published a rule revision that pushes back to the mid-summer the effective date for the new building code requirements. The requirement that industrialized housing (i.e. modular homes) be built to the 2021 version...

• Texas Eviction Update - 2024

  March 27, 2024 - Our first reminder is a quick one, and one that if you have obtained an eviction judgment from a JP court in the last year you have probably already seen. Rule 505.1 was amended effective...

• HUD Action on Alleged Fair Housing Violations

  March 27, 2024 - For HUD to charge a company with a violation, typically they first receive a complaint that is then verified. After they verify the complaint, HUD, on behalf of the aggrieved persons, conducts an investigation. If...

• Texas Factory Housing State Admin. Rule Update – TDHCA, TDLR, and DMV

  March 04, 2024 - We have two updates on final rules and effective dates that we previously posted about. First, MH TDHCA rule changes are now final and effective. Recall the few rule changes were in response to an...