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Manufactured housing is projected to achieve above-average growth through 2011, and approach $6.4 million. This is the result of a positive shipments growth after a long period of depressed demand during which easier credit and rising home value made site-built homes relatively more attractive (the wonderful housing boom that has since crashed the US economy. Those houses aren’t looking so attractive now are they?). Driving demand for manufactured housing will be multisection units, particularly those with three or more sections. Demand for multisection manufactured housing will benefit from increased market penetration, as households increasingly choose the economy of manufactured housing over site-built homes.

Shipments of precut homes are forecast to perform the best of all other types of prefabricated housing. Shipments are expected to grow about two percent annually to 20,500 units in 2011. Demand will be particularly strong in the growing Midwest housing market, but will also benefit from increased market penetration in the contracting housing market of the South.

The Midwest region is expected to be the fastest growing source of demand for prefabricated housing through 2011. This region accounted for approximately 18 percent of total demand for prefabricated housing in 2006, second only to the South. Rebounding from the poorest performance of any region from 2001 to 2006, demand for new housing in the Midwest is forecast to grow through 2011, providing favorable conditions for prefabricated housing. Strength in the Midwest will be particularly beneficial to manufactured and precut housing.

Would you consider a prefabricated home over a site-built one? What are your specific pre-requisites if you were to consider a prefab?

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