FREEHOLD, N.J., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Mobile Homes,
Inc. (Amex: UMH), a Maryland corporation, announced the acquisition by its
subsidiary, United Mobile Homes of Pennsylvania, Inc., a Pennsylvania
corporation, of Bishop's Mobile Home Court and Whispering Pines Community, in
Somerset Township, Pennsylvania.
Bishop's Mobile Home Court is an existing family community consisting of
124 lots, which is located next to Whispering Pines Community, a 55-and-older
community consisting of 15 existing home sites and 60 acres to expand. UMH
will rename Bishop's Mobile Home Court as Somerset Estates. The purchase
price was approximately $3,500,000.
This acquisition increases the number of home sites owned by United Mobile
Homes, Inc., and its subsidiaries to almost 6,300 in twenty-seven communities
located in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Tennessee. The
Whispering Pines Community requires engineering and county approvals to
expand, but could conceivably consist of as many as 300 home sites built over
a 10-year period.
Samuel A. Landy, President of United Mobile Homes, Inc., expressed his
enthusiasm over the purchase of this latest manufactured home community,
citing its proximity to the Pennsylvania Turnpike and some of Pennsylvania's
more desirable ski areas as an attractive and convenient place to live.
United Mobile Homes, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust
whose primary business is the ownership and operation of manufactured home
communities, leasing manufactured home spaces to private manufactured home
owners, and leasing homes to residents. United Mobile Homes, Inc. has been in
operation since 1968, operating as a public company since 1985.
SOURCE United Mobile Homes, Inc.
-0- 03/03/2004
/CONTACT: Rosemarie Faccone or Susan Jordan, United Mobile Homes, Inc.,
+1-732-577-9996/
(UMH)
CO: United Mobile Homes, Inc.; United Mobile Homes of Pennsylvania, Inc.
ST: Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
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SU: RLE
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