UMH Properties
The Firm
UMH buys a community at a time and says how big it is, which is what makes it readable at all. Its July 2025 purchase was two adjoining Maryland communities for $14.625 million together, one of 142 sites and one of 49, and the same release counts four communities and 457 sites closed year to date.
THE SMALL HALF OF THAT IS THE PART A SELLER SHOULD READ. A 49-site community sits inside the range a self-funded buyer looks at, so a listed REIT is not only an exit here: it is a competitor for the same deal, bidding with a cost of capital an individual does not have.
It says what happens afterwards in its own words: it will implement its typical business plan, which it describes as growing occupancy rates and property-level value. Its quarterly update counts 3,200 vacant sites and 2,300 acres of undeveloped land across the portfolio, so what it is buying is room to fill rather than a stabilized income stream.
And it bought next door. The release says the two Maryland communities adjoin a community UMH already owned, and that this will create efficiencies. That is the tell for how a REIT picks: a park with no neighbor in the portfolio is a different conversation from one that rounds out a cluster. Read again in September 2026 from its filings, since its site walls a script: five communities and 587 sites bought in 2025 by its October count, the last an Albany, Georgia community. Nothing in 2026 through August, where every release still counts 145 communities. The filings opened that evening added five communities from 2022 to 2025 and a storage facility, each exhibit printing its closing day and price, and every 2026 exhibit holds the portfolio at 145 communities with no purchase named. Its news page, opened by a rendered reader in September 2026, lists 2026 releases about results, dividends and a veterans' lending program and no purchase, and the count stands at 145 communities.
What It Buys
Freehold, New Jersey. A listed manufactured housing REIT that buys whole communities rather than portfolios, names each one and its site count in its own release, and keeps operating them.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
8 deals traced to announcements by UMH Properties, 2022 to 2025, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Albany Dunes · October 7, 2025
A 130-site manufactured home community in Albany, Georgia, bought for $2.6 million by the firm's own release.
- Conowingo Court and Maybelle Manor · July 2, 2025
Two adjoining Maryland communities bought together for $14.625 million, 191 sites between them.
- Cedar Grove Park and Maplewood Village · March 24, 2025
Two fully occupied age-restricted communities in Mantua, New Jersey with 266 sites, the filing putting the total at $24.6 million.
- A self storage facility in Anderson, Indiana · November 1, 2024
A self storage facility adjoining one of the firm's communities; storage, not a community.
- Mighty Oak · January 19, 2023
A brand-new 118-site community in Albany, Georgia bought through the opportunity zone fund, the filing's total $3.65 million.
- Rum Runner · December 23, 2022
A new 144-site all-age community in Sebring, Florida bought through the joint venture, the filing's total $15.1 million.
- Oak Tree Estates · December 15, 2022
A 260-site community in Jackson, New Jersey at 98 percent occupancy, the filing putting the total at $23 million.
- Fohl Village · November 22, 2022
A 321-site community on 170 acres in Canton, Ohio at 77 percent occupancy, the filing putting the total at $19.1 million.