Manufactured housing communities are land-lease parks where residents own the home and rent the lot. Research follows lot-rent growth, occupancy, consolidation and the sector's reputation for stable, recession-resilient cash flow.
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FREEHOLD, NJ, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE:UMH) (TASE:UMH) reported Total Income for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 of $71.6 million as compared to $66.6 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, representing an increase of 7%. Net Income Attributable to Common Shareholders…
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The Fifth Estate - While Australia continues to invest in factories, automation and manufacturing capacity, governments are beginning to build the rules that determine whether factory made housing can move through the wider building system with confidence. Australia’s evolving MMC – a national perspective on policy…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is investing an additional $100B in manufacturing in the U.S., bringing its total investment commitment to $265B. The additional investment will mean four more advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities, bringing...

The residents of Salinas’ 82-space Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park have collectively purchased the property for $12 million, converting a rented-land community into one of the region’s first resident-owned parks and shielding dozens of farmworker and fixed-income households from the rent hikes reshaping the…

Walker & Dunlop examines the transition of factory-built affordable housing from pilot initiatives to scalable market solutions.

Knight Frank examines the expanding market for living sectors across Asia-Pacific and their transition from niche to core investment categories.

Supporters of travel trailers, Park Model RVs, and tiny homes say they offer a faster, less expensive path to housing people experiencing homelessness. The challenge is navigating building codes, zoning restrictions, and infrastructure costs.

Latest MH REIT quarterly: ELS 93.9% occupancy with 5.7% YoY rent growth, Sun above 98% occupancy integrating $450M of acquisitions, UMH 7.1% NOI growth; affordability and aging demographics drive demand.

Annually updated MH industry statistics: ~20M Americans in manufactured/mobile homes, plus rent, occupancy, production and resident-satisfaction data with infographics.

Full-year wrap on MH REITs: ~98.1% same-property occupancy, 8.8% Q4 / 8.9% FY same-property NOI growth on 7.3% revenue growth vs 3.2% opex; 5-7.6% rent growth across operators.

Policy support and cost pressures are driving structural change in manufactured home communities as a housing-affordability solution; vacancy stays low and rent growth steady nationwide amid rising federal, state and local legislative impact.
Lincoln Institute Land Lines coverage of its second annual benchmark report: increased 2024 manufactured housing production and its potential to address the affordability crisis.

PGIM Real Estate research report making the institutional case for MHC investment: stable, growing cash flows, low capex, sticky tenants, constrained supply and expanding institutional adoption from a low base.

Fannie Mae provided approximately $74 billion of multifamily financing in 2025, up 34 percent year over year, including more than $8.3 billion in affordable housing and $1.9 billion in manufactured housing, marking its largest annual multifamily volume since 2020.

Second annual I'm HOME benchmark (free, 30pp) analyzing 2024 MH production, certification, placement, federal policy and financing; notes progress plus durability/titling roadblocks.
Berkadia analysis of the Affordable HOMES Act consolidating federal MH standards under HUD, streamlining oversight to create more predictable conditions for manufacturers, lenders and investors.
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Savills commentary: UK holiday park sector enters 2026 with renewed confidence as 2025 deal volumes doubled YoY, led by established operators; pitch values stabilising.

Berkadia Research monthly insight on improving RV-industry key market indicators within the manufactured housing sector heading into 2026.

Q3 review of ELS, Sun Communities and UMH covering occupancy, rental rates, expenses, transaction activity and macro context for the manufactured housing sector.

Berkadia Research monthly MH insight documenting rising manufactured housing financing/lending activity through 2025.

MHI economic update: July 2025 production up 5.1% YoY, multi-section shipments up 7.9% YTD, with 150 plants and 37 manufacturers operating nationwide.

September 2025 issue of Berkadia's monthly MHC research, including state-level trends (e.g. North/South Carolina). Verified first-party PDF (HTTP 200, 1.3MB).

MHI national fact sheet on manufactured housing's role in housing supply: production, affordability and industry statistics.

MH REIT performance: ELS 6.4% core NOI growth with flat opex, Sun Communities raised guidance after $5.25B marina sale, UMH 10% same-property NOI growth on occupancy and rental-home gains.

IPA national MHC report: nationwide vacancy 5.2% entering 2025, ~100,000 units delivered in 2024 (up ~50% from 2015), constrained new community development, Pacific subregion vacancy near 1.0%.

MHI overview of Census Bureau MHS data: national average new-home prices around $121,700 (Dec 2024) / $120,900 (Jan 2025) with regional variation.

Berkadia monthly manufactured-housing insight: updated sector fundamentals, shipment trends and MHC investment-sales activity in the affordable land-lease community space.

June 2025 issue; reports MH loan originations near $860.7M in Q1 2025 (up 19.6% YoY) and ~$8.2B in MH loans maturing by year-end 2026. Verified first-party PDF.

MHC sector performance review across ELS, Sun Communities and UMH: Sun Communities posted 7.3% revenue growth and 8.9% same-property MH NOI growth; affordability driving demand.

Berkadia 'State of the Manufactured Housing Industry' monthly insight: sector data on rents, occupancy, shipments and MHC transaction activity, with affordability-driven demand commentary.

NAHB economics blog examining manufactured homes (5.4% of U.S. housing stock) as affordable supply for rural and lower-income households, plus financing and zoning barriers.

Berkadia's monthly manufactured-housing data brief covering sector fundamentals, shipments, transaction volume and affordability dynamics in the manufactured home community market.
Full-year 2024 MH REIT review (ELS, Sun, UMH): ELS 5.8% YoY rent growth, SUI 97.6% occupancy and $570M asset sales, UMH 7.9% same-property rental income growth; insurance up 15-20%, Sunbelt migration tailwind.

MHI economic report: December 2024 production up 11.3% YoY, full-year up 15.9%; SAAR shipments 103,571 homes (+7.3% vs 2023); MH captured 8.9% of single-family starts in December.

MHI's industry economic report with production and shipment data by state, division and product mix (single- vs multi-section); December 2024 shipments of 7,048 homes vs 6,394 a year earlier.