An obscure federal rule requires manufactured homes to be built on a chassis, making them more costly. A bill in Congress ...

With so many people being priced out of the housing market these days, more and more homebuyers are considering prefabricated homes—also known as modular and manufactured homes. Prefab houses are way ...

The cost to build a modular home is between $180,000 to $360,000, with a national average cost of $270,000. Factors that affect the total cost of a modular home ...

Mobile, prefabricated, or modular homes are having a moment right now, and it looks as if the trend will continue. A variety of factors is behind the desire for alternative housing solutions, from ...

Residential housing investments can produce positive rates of return. After all, people need places to live and depending on supply, demand and market cycles, apartments and single-family rentals are ...

If you are in the market for a new home but aren’t loving the latest housing prices, a modular home may be a good alternative. Modular homes, or prefab homes, have become more popular in recent years, ...

Manufactured, or mobile, homes are growing in popularity in an overheated housing market. Their cost is roughly half that of homes built on a permanent site. From 2014-2019, the median value of ...

Ty Sharp, a 26-year-old software consultant from Aspen, Colo., is building a 2,876-square-foot vacation home in Ventura, Calif. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom custom home, for which he’s paying ...

Following Amazon’s multiproduct Alexa hardware rollout, the Amazon Alexa Fund invested in Plant Prefab, a Rialto, California-based prefabricated home startup, according to Curbed. Backing a ...

From crystalline-inspired homes to funky cargotecture office spaces, James Whitaker‘s unique shipping container designs have taken the world by storm. However, the prolific architect is now branching ...