But a custom build from the ground up isn't your only option. Modular homes can be the right choice for some future homeowners—and they've come a long way from the mobile homes of decades past.

Fewer Options: Manufactured homes offer fewer ways to customize your build. These homes are designed and built in a factory setting, and customizations slow down the process, although a few layout ...

Austin-based The Amherst Group is developing a 145-home neighborhood called Firefly in Lockhart, which will consist entirely of modular-built homes constructed by Amherst’s StudioBuilt platform in the ...