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Manufactured housing group encouraged by FHA attention — but concerned about its portrayal

Housing Wire

With Todman’s emphasis on mission-driven entities and nonprofit access to the program, Gooch said its portrayal was needlessly negative toward private owners of land-lease communities, where many MHI-backed manufactured homes are ultimately placed. That’s why I find it interesting. They weren’t a good partner for us in that.”

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Who Manages Georgia Lakes?

Hank Miller Team

Georgia Power has similar deep interests; homes on their lakes have land leases granted to the owners. The company retains ownership of the land and leases it back to the owner of the structure. Strict to the point of owners doing nothing, even landscape clean up, without permission.

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How to Handle the Weird Stuff: Appraisal Methods from an Experienced Florida Appraiser

McKissock

This time, let’s look at “the form of ownership” and “market conditions” being atypical. There are HP-12C keystrokes for life estates, but in this case, the assignment ended up being a request for market value for his CPA’s needs. Example: Land lease. Market conditions. Complex assignment examples.

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Housing coalition publishes recommendations for GSEs’ ‘Duty to Serve’ plans

Housing Wire

The Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition (UMMC), a coalition of 32 housing groups initially convened by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy , published a report on Wednesday that recommended actions for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. mortgage finance system.

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Opinion: It’s time for bi-partisanship on affordable manufactured housing homeownership

Housing Wire

Last year was challenging for housing and mortgage markets. Manufactured home communities — also known as land-lease communities — are a critical model for the delivery of affordable manufactured homes, with half of the new manufactured homes currently being placed in such communities. a year ago to nearly 7% today.