Interest rates and a seller's market make it tough for a lot of people to buy a starter home, but now you can buy an actual ...

A pair of billionaire brothers from New Zealand has quietly snapped up 16 beachfront Malibu lots destroyed by last year’s ...

Design magazines love them. So do movie stars and environmental activists. New technology, including the use of robots in factories, makes them even easier to build. So why are advocates of prefab ...

When it comes to housing, Australia loves a taskforce. More than 50 years ago, the federal government established one to "investigate modern housing techniques" to boost Australia's "large, ...

Demand for quickly produced, affordable products for housing units is a leading reason the prefabricated business has become a fast growing industry. Prefab structures are pre-assembled in a different ...

April 25, 2006 — -- Mention the phrase "prefab house" at a cocktail party, and you'll likely hear jokes about double-wide trailers and mobile-home parks. But a new wave of architects, designers ...

Marc A. Bovet wanted to build a house, but when it came to the actual construction, he was overwhelmed with options. He had bought an empty lot and hired an architect to design a custom home in ...

Plant Prefab makes units and panels in factories that are trucked to lots to assemble into homes. The company is about to build a 270,000-square-foot modular housing factory in Southern California.

Longtime Malibu residents are concerned about the city's rebuilding process as international buyers purchase burned-out lots ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. In his time with Prefab Sprout, the acclaimed British pop/rock band from ...