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Wired
January 2006
Tom Vanderbilt |
Some Assembly Required A new generation of tech-savvy architects is bringing premium-quality, prefabricated housing to the masses.   |
Smithsonian
January 2007
William Booth |
House Proud High design in a factory-made home? Architect Michelle Kaufmann believes she holds the key. |
Inc.
June 2004
Tim Barkow |
Office Design Prefab makes modern architecture easier for companies revamping office space. |
Fast Company
November 2006
John Rosenthal |
House In a Box Century-old construction technology comes home in part pre-fab, all custom house designs. |
Inc.
July 2008
Tess Taylor |
Brett Zamore Designed a Stylish, Affordable Kit Home. These predesigned homes are modest, energy efficient, and easy to assemble on your own site for as little as $100 per square foot. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Andrew Blum |
Instant Suburb of Prefabs Hits New York The Museum of Modern Art displays its latest exhibit titled Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. |
Inc.
March 2006
Hillary Johnson |
My Place: Rocio Romero's Prefab Pad For one company owner, work is home: a jewel box of a prefab house in Perryville, Missouri. |
Popular Mechanics
January 15, 2009
Glenn Reynolds |
Clayton's I-House: Prefab Green Homes Get Affordable It looks like a house you'd order from Ikea. It sounds like a house designed by Apple. The I-House just might be the future -- well, one future, anyway -- of the housing market. |
Metropolis
November 8, 2006
Karrie Jacobs |
The Vanishing Class Middle-income neighborhoods are disappearing from cities, and in New York they're being squeezed to the very edge. |
Wired
January 2007
Andrew Blum |
Plug+Play Construction Panels stuffed with wires and pipes, preassembled on a factory floor, make high tech green building a snap. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Bob Hirschfeld |
Trailer Cash Mobile homes and the people who live in them are easy marks for comedians, but it'd be a mistake to let the jokes influence your opinion of the industry as an investment opportunity. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2010
Selena Maranjian s |
Hold Your Horses on Housing A recovery probably isn't around the corner. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Marko Djuranovic |
Why Housing Prices Are Nearing Bottom It seems that, for the most part, current housing prices are nearing bottom, thanks to forces other than loose lending standards and a corresponding spike in demand. |
Fast Company
June 2010
Danielle Sacks |
Eco-Friendly Designs From New World Home New World Home's eco-friendly designs combine time-honored style with modular, modern efficiency. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Prefab Gains Signal Housing Pain Manufactured home sales are reviving. That may be bad news for the larger market. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Creative Destruction in the Housing Market Rebuilding real estate, one demolition at a time. |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2007 |
In Progress: Arcola Center The Buchanan Partners project is planned for up to 2.1 million sq. ft. of office and commercial space, up to 1.1 million sq. ft. of retail, and approximately 80 acres of town homes and multifamily housing over the next 10 to 20 years. |
BusinessWeek
November 14, 2005 |
Need A Home To Go With That Sofa Aimed largely at first-time buyers, BoKlok is proving a big hit, with more than 2,500 prefab units sold in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark since the program was launched in 1997. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Another Dose of Bad Builder News The latest negative housing numbers, released by the Commerce Department early this week, showed that the sales rate of new houses was lower last year than any time since we started keeping track of housing figures. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
James Mehring |
Housing: Builders Bite The Bullet It's unlikely that the housing recession has suddenly deepened. Rather, homebuilders have set themselves up finally to reduce their inventories of unsold homes. |
Fast Company
February 11, 2013
Greg Lindsay |
Swedish Modern Comes To Town As if furnishing our postcollegiate homes wasn't enough, Ikea is bringing its austere aesthetic to urban planning. Ikea hopes its new towns will help boost sales of its BoKlok prefab houses. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Where You'll Make Money in Housing With home prices for existing and new homes still low, perhaps the best way to profit from the housing downturn is simply to buy real estate directly. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2009
James C. Cooper |
A Housing Upturn Suggests Recovery Is Near Price declines, low mortgage rates, and first-time buyer perks are sparking real estate gains -- and the beginning of the end of the recession |
U.S. Banker
February 2006 |
Gimme Shelter The U.S. residential real-estate boom masks an ugly truth: Affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. Enter manufactured housing, an $8 billion industry that promises to grow by 10% a year. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Stalling the Housing Recovery, One Stimulus Bill at a Time Congress again proves that it's not a group of economists, as three House members introduce a $15 billion stimulus bill to provide homebuilders with construction loans. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
Donald Jay Korn |
Real Estate Revisited Have real estate prices finally hit bottom? As far as home prices go, the data says they have. |
Reason
July 2006
Joel Miller |
The Politics of Sky-High House Prices How American government jacks up the price of owning your home. |
The Motley Fool
November 27, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Home Prices Even More Horrid All over the U.S., home prices are dropping at a record pace, as confirmed by the S&P's Case-Shiller home price index for Q3. |
Fast Company
September 2006
Michael Dumiak |
Cement Bloc Builders recycle the stuff of Communist-era Berlin. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Home Sales The housing industry is an important component of the U.S. economy, affecting everyone. By looking at data on sales of homes, you can track how well the housing industry is doing, which can help you with decisions about investing in real estate. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2010
Morgan Housel |
The Death of a Stupid Stimulus If you want to take advantage of the first-time homebuyers tax credit, run. Today is the last day the government will pay you to buy a house. |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
What to Do When Your House Won't Sell Times may be tough for people trying to sell their homes, but that doesn't mean you're doomed to failure. There are things you can do to best handle the struggling real estate market. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2007
Elizabeth Brokamp |
Bigger Isn't Always Better Is the McMansion all it's cracked up to be? The big house will dot the American landscape for many years to come. But is it for you? Here are some of the downsides to the big house: Big houses are less environmentally sound... Wasted space abounds... etc. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2006
Donald Jay Korn |
Real(i)ty Check As the scorching housing market cools in some areas, owners of multiple homes may feel the chill. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2004
Bill Mann |
Crazy on Credit How the manufactured housing industry got burned by easy credit. |
Inc.
October 2006
Chris Lydgate |
How I Did It: Sir Walter Lindal, Founder, Lindal Cedar Homes Despite his Dickensian background, the company Sir Walter Lindal founded in 1945 is now the world's biggest manufacturer of prefabricated cedar houses. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2008
David Lee Smith |
5 Steps Necessary for a Housing Cure Here are five reasons why the housing sector is in such a pickle, and by examining them we can see more clearly what needs to be done to make it so that the sun again shines on our nation's housing sector. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Andrew Blum |
Prefab-ulous: New Development in England Goes Up Green -- and Fast A new and quick way that contractors in London are building eco-friendly homes. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Housing's Increased Signs of Trouble The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Housing: Now Actually Cheap Prices are back to normal. Just don't think that's the end of the housing story. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Goldilocks in the Housing Market Not too hot, not too cold. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Why Housing is Guaranteed to Recover All markets are cyclical, and when you look at the numbers it's hard not to think we're near the bottom of this cycle. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2005
Anthony Downs |
Dissecting the Housing Bubble Question The most widely discussed real estate issue in the United States today boils down to a two-part question: Does a housing bubble in America exist? And if so, will it burst? |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005 |
Housing: Don't Panic Yet Soaring home prices are the last remaining problem of the tech boom. The extremely low interest rates that were needed to revive the economy after the bust set the stage for a rally in housing that's now reaching extremes. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2006
Rich Smith |
A Crack in Cavalier's Armor The manufactured-housing company beats estimates but inspires fear. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
This Bad Housing Number's Better Than It Seems When housing starts shrink, Warren Buffett smiles. As Buffett has explained, "You want to have a bad number for a while." |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2013
June Fletcher |
Elder Housing Options for Clients Aging clients may need to adjust real estate holdings to address changing health care needs. Here are 7 strategies to consider. |
