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The Ballad of Clayton Homes Berkshire Hathaway's $1.7 billion acquisition of a mobile-home company seemed like a perfect match. Then shareholders got a look, and a folksy tale suddenly turned ugly. |
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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. |
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Champion's Comeback Story Profits and free cash flow are back for the modular home builder. Is it time to invest? |
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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. |
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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. |
