Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking about purchasing a manufactured home. Unlike traditional stick- or site-built homes, which are built piece-by-piece directly on the site where ...

The city of Rochester is setting out to have modular homes built on city-owned lots, as part of an effort to create new ...

The rest of it—being mostly manufactured at a factory then assembled on a foundation on-site—is the same, differentiating these prefab housing solutions from “stick-built homes,” the term ...

Once assembled on a permanent foundation, modular homes remain fixed in place, just like traditional stick-built homes. Another big difference is that mobile homes adhere to federal codes set by ...

So that delivery costs don’t negate modular’s advantages over traditional stick-built construction, the site should ideally be within a day’s drive of a suitable factory—generally 400 miles or less, ...

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“There’s not a standard adjustment or a way to compare a manufactured home to a normal stick-built, site-built house,” Hynek said. “The market notices the difference between ...

Most single-family U.S. homes still get assembled using stick-built ... overseeing high-rise modular towers in London. [Photo: Greystar] Modular construction—factory-built sections of ...