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Opinion: Reformed FHA program will offer lenders new business opportunities

Housing Wire

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Demand for home-only financing is strong; in 2019, there were more than 200,000 home-only loan applications.

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CFPB ponders how well HMDA captures discrimination

Housing Wire

In a virtual seminar Thursday on “modern-day redlining,” attorneys from Garris Horn, LLP , said the CFPB’s current definition of the practice is better termed “marketing discrimination.”. The HMDA data is a crucial tool for the CFPB in constructing redlining cases. The mortgage industry cheered those changes.

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Why Manufactured Housing Deserves a Fresh Look

Genworth MI Blog

Truth: A manufactured home is built in a factory and constructed to comply, at a minimum, with the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD Code) enacted June 15, 1976. All factory-built homes constructed after June 15, 1976 must comply with the HUD Code or local building code. can work at night).

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Why Manufactured Housing Deserves a Fresh Look

Genworth MI Blog

Truth: A manufactured home is built in a factory and constructed to comply, at a minimum, with the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD Code) enacted June 15, 1976. All factory-built homes constructed after June 15, 1976 must comply with the HUD Code or local building code. can work at night).

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A look behind this year’s Tech100 winners

Housing Wire

In 2019 we published a feature story about “Who will be the Amazon of housing?” — and then explored world-domination theories that painted Zillow , Redfin , Opendoor (and maybe Amazon itself) taking over the entire end-to-end housing sales and financing process. Even at HousingWire , we’ve hypothesized about this for years.

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44 New Home Improvement and Renovation Statistics for 2022

Raleigh Realty

Statista) The average monthly spending on private construction has been increasing since 2011. This is the biggest difference between quarters since spending dropped between Q4 of 2018 and Q1 of 2019. Houzz & Home) Across construction and design-related firms, 53–72 of firms expect product and material costs to increase.

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eBook: 7 Common Use Cases for Construction Mobile Forms

GoForrmz

Originally published on 02/13/2019 Hear from seven current construction customers and discover how mobile forms can take your operation to the next level The workplace has evolved drastically, shifting to innovative, dynamic tools to help streamline work and bolster productivity. Download the eBook