Revolutionizing Affordable Housing: MHarketplace Connects Communities and Services

Manufactured housing is America's largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing. The industry ships roughly 100,000 new homes a year, and at an average price of about $115,600, a new manufactured home costs less than one-third of a comparable site-built house. Communities are effectively full, with national occupancy near 95 percent, and researchers point to manufactured housing as a critical tool for closing the affordability gap.

Yet for the families it serves best - often first-time buyers making the largest purchase of their lives - the industry remains remarkably difficult to navigate. Questions about titles, financing, transportation, insurance, land, and communities are answered by dozens of disconnected businesses that buyers struggle to find, because no single place connects them.

"The problem was never a lack of good people," said Jacob Campbell, founder of MHarketplace. "I've sat in homeowners' living rooms and worked alongside manufacturers, retailers, lenders, transporters, and community owners. The expertise exists everywhere in this industry. What's been missing is the connection - homeowners simply don't know these businesses exist. MHarketplace makes the ecosystem visible."

What MHarketplace does

• Community directory - searchable profiles of mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities across the country, organized by state and city.
• Trusted services network - transporters, installers, contractors, title professionals, insurers, and lenders, discoverable where buyers actually need them: locally.
• Buyer and homeowner education - plain-language guidance on the questions every responsible buyer asks about titling, financing, transport, insurance, and community living.
• Listings and connections - a growing marketplace for buying, selling, and renting manufactured homes.

Positioned to complete the market, not divide it

Established listings marketplaces have made it easier to find a manufactured home for sale. MHarketplace addresses everything that surrounds that transaction - the education before it and the services around and after it. The platform's position in the market is deliberately complementary: it exists to make the industry's thousands of businesses - many family-owned, many decades old, most invisible online - discoverable to the homeowners who need them.

"Visibility isn't marketing - it's opportunity," said Jacob Campbell. "Great businesses deserve to be found, and homeowners deserve to find them. Manufactured homes have improved dramatically; public perception hasn't kept pace. Every confident, well-informed homeowner helps close that gap, and that strengthens the entire industry."

Availability

MHarketplace is live now at mharketplace.com, launching state by state with national coverage of community directories. Manufactured housing businesses can claim and enhance their listings at launch; homeowners and buyers can browse communities, services, and educational resources free of charge.

About MHarketplace

MHarketplace is the everything-mobile-homes platform, simplifying how manufactured and mobile homes are bought, sold, rented, and serviced. Founded by a real estate professional who learned the industry from the inside - in homeowners' living rooms, on transport routes, and across closing tables - MHarketplace connects buyers, homeowners, community owners, and service businesses with the education, visibility, and trusted connections that make affordable homeownership work.