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Largest CrossMod® Neighborhood Provides Blueprint for Scaling New, Attainable Home Inventory Across the Country

June 30, 20252 min read

Key Takeaways:

Clayton celebrates the opening of Harvest Meadow, the largest CrossMod development to date, with 264 energy-efficient homes.
In Knox County, these homes start in the low $300,000s, offering a more affordable alternative to the median home price of over $400,000.
CrossMod homes combine the speed and cost efficiency of modern manufactured homes with traditional site-built features. CrossMod® homes provide a solution to efficiently increasing new home supply in markets across the country.
This project represents how builders and developers can work together through innovative partnerships to scale attainable homeownership across the country.

KNOXVILLE, TN., June 30, 2025 - Clayton, a leading national builder of single-family housing, partnered with Knoxville-based developer

About Clayton

Founded in 1956, Clayton is a leading single-family, values-driven home builder committed to opening doors to a better life through homeownership. The company’s portfolio includes a comprehensive range of site-built, modern manufactured, Tiny, CrossMod® and modular housing. In 2025, Clayton built more than 59,000 homes nationwide. Clayton remains committed to delivering attainable, sustainably-built housing with a lower cost of homeownership and creating world-class experience for customers and team members. For more information, visit claytonhomes.com.
CrossMod is a registered certification mark of the Manufactured Housing Institute.

“It’s an honor to celebrate this important milestone showcasing how off-site construction and developer partnerships can provide attainable, energy-efficient homeownership for more home buyers,” said Kevin Clayton, CEO. “We look forward to scaling this innovative process and embracing local industry partnerships as we develop neighborhoods like Harvest Meadow in more markets across the country.”

CrossMod® homes are modern manufactured homes built to federal HUD code that combine the speed and cost-efficiency of off-site construction with traditional site-built home features. This unique approach allows builders to deliver high-quality, energy-efficient homes more efficiently and at a lower cost – making homeownership more attainable to families nationwide. These homes appraise alongside site-built and other CrossMod homes and can qualify for traditional financing, creating opportunities for homeowners to build equity and long-term wealth through homeownership. A 2024 FHFA study shows that modern manufactured homes classified as real property, like CrossMod, are proven to gain in value year over year and since 2020, they have appreciated at a rate on par with site-built homes.

“The efficient way these homes are built means builders and developers can achieve price points and scale that might not have otherwise been possible,” said Andrew Bryant, Business Development Manager – CrossMod Initiative. “With streamlined off-site construction, builders can achieve economies of scale – savings that can be passed directly to the homebuyer. And because the majority of the home construction takes place in a climate-controlled environment, production time and costs are significantly reduced, allowing homes to be delivered and completed at an efficient pace.”

All homes in Harvest Meadow will be eBuilt®, which are built to meet strict energy efficient performance guidelines set by the Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Home Manufactured Home requirements. These homes are estimated to help homeowners save up to 50% annually on energy costs1—over $900 on average per year for the Harvest Meadow homes.2

As demand for new housing continues to grow, developments like Harvest Meadow represent a scalable solution that allows builders and developers to deliver quality homes at a more efficient pace, offering homes that provide long-term value and a lower cost of ownership over the life of the home through annual energy savings.

Home features were updated September 2025. Visit https://www.claytonbuilt.com/ebuilt for details.