Walking down the assembly line as the bell dings, marking a lunch break, Ken Semler points to a man carefully sealing the frame of a house with foam as evidence that this factory can build houses ...

Developers and New York City are building modular homes in factories and propping them up on vacant lots in the outer ...

The high cost and tight inventory of existing homes on the market, as well as the escalating costs of building a custom house from scratch, has triggered a surge in sales of modular homes in Maine.

A prefabricated home is assembled on-site from prebuilt parts, as opposed to a stick-built home, which is constructed from the ground up in the traditional way. Prefabricated houses are often thought ...

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