Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The U.S. is facing a significant affordable housing crisis, with a shortage of affordable ...
Brookfield Asset Management’s property fund manufactured a deal to offload a housing portfolio to an unnamed buyer. Brookfield’s property fund sold 19 manufactured housing communities for $325 million ...
Private equity firms are buying mobile home parks, driving up rents and evictions, and putting affordable homeownership out ...
The Canadian investment giant sold about half the properties and is in discussions to dispose of another 80 comparable properties as prices per unit have grown this year, CoStar reported, citing a ...
One of the last affordable housing options is becoming unaffordable. Mobile home park residents across the country are fighting against big investors and rising rent prices. "They house a variety of ...
Mobile home communities are one of the last options for affordable housing. The average price for a new home in the United States is $540,000. The average manufactured home, also known as a mobile ...
Jeannette Galvez-Martinez stands in front of her mobile home in South Carolina. It cost around $12,000 to move it from one park to another. Katherine Kokal The Island Packet It’s easy to miss the ...
An interesting trend has developed, investment groups are buying New Hampshire manufacture home parks. At the same time, the residents of some parks are collectively buying their own parks, but ...
The fall of Chimene Van Gundy, who styled herself as the “Queen of Mobile Homes” to woo investors only to defraud them in a scheme that raised about $18.5 million, is nearly complete. Van Gundy, 48, ...
“We think we can do it,” Beailieu said in an interview with Fox 23 Maine. It’s a battle playing out across the country: Deep-pocketed investors have discovered that mobile home parks can be a ...
This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. At the end of the month, Edmund McGahey plans to load up ...
Far removed from the oft-reported subject of housing prices in major cities, reporters Michael Casey and Carolyn Thompson combined national reporting and analysis with strong on-the-ground journalism ...