The demand for affordable, high-quality housing in suburban Chicago has grown as buyers seek alternatives to traditional site ...

If you’re in the market for a backyard getaway or are looking for a possible solution to the housing market shortage, modern prefabricated tiny houses may be your answer. Depending on the unit's size, ...

When it was completed in 2004, the Dwell Home, which goes up for auction in Chatham County on Tuesday, was an early, high-profile example of a modern-design house made from components built in a ...

The sleek, sophisticated version of an Alpine escape in the Victorian Alps is a compact tiny house with the panoramic view of ...

It’s expandable, easy to set up, and perfect for hosting. The increasingly inaccessible real estate market is a hot topic among would-be homeowners these days, leaving shoppers looking for alternative ...

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 ...

The Portable Prefabricated Modern Villa is now selling at Amazon for just under $25K, and with its sprawling front porch, abundance of windows, and customizable design, it’ll allow you to build your ...

Admiring the sleek, contemporary home down the block, complete with quartz countertops, glass-front fireplace and fiber-cement exterior? It might surprise you to learn that it’s a modular home.

The do-it-yourself, modest tiny home boom is gaining popularity in an era of shocking rent increases and low housing inventory — and we may have America's former largest retailer, Sears, to thank for ...

The low-slung structure tucked among the unearthly boulders of Joshua Tree looks vaguely like many other modern prefab homes from the last decade — streamlined silhouette, eco-chic materials, ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Robert Newton and John Brackett didn’t hear the typical construction racket while their Newberg home was being built. There were no trucks blocking the driveway and no crews being called off because ...