PITTSFIELD — A few hours after Teton Management cut the ribbon on Allendale Pines North, a family of three finalized a purchase agreement and began moving in. Their monthly costs before utilities, officials said, will come to $2,200.

On Thursday, Teton Management, which owns and operates mobile and manufactured home parks in Massachusetts and New York, officially unveiled six new homes during a ribbon cutting at Allendale Pines North. The development has a different entrance, at 395 Cheshire Road, from the original Allendale Pines mobile home park.

The manufactured homes top out at $204,900, which keep the homes attainable for prospective buyers, said Val Whaling, director of sales for Teton Management. The home also comes with a lot fee, which covers a few utilities and property taxes.

With the average home sale price in Berkshire County crossing the $350,000 mark in 2026, this development offers residents who can't afford that price an alternative to renting and a way to build their net worth.

All the homes have new appliances, in-unit washer-dryer hookups and individual mailboxes, which Teton Management pushed to get, as most manufactured home parks have a centralized mailbox.

"These are quality manufactured homes that last," Whaling said. "And we've seen strong results in the resale of pre-owned homes."

Mayor Peter Marchetti and Rebecca Brien, center, the managing director for Downtown Pittsfield Inc., attended Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony at Allendale Pines North. During his remarks, Marchetti echoed his previous calls for more housing at all levels of affordability.

Manufactured or mobile homes are built off-site, then put together upon arrival. They differ from modular and stick-built homes for one primary reason: People purchasing these homes don't own the land.

That's why so-called "chattel loans" are used to purchase a manufactured home, Whaling said. Teton Management has relationships with a few local loan vendors to help prospective homebuyers secure financing, but the group doesn't require buyers to use those particular ones.

These chattel loans require a 5 percent minimum down payment, which is what the first family put down to buy a home, but 10 percent is encouraged, Whaling said.

Because the purchase doesn't include the land, the buyer will pay a $550 monthly lot payment. The buyers are renting the land from Teton Management, and that money also covers the property taxes and water, sewer and trash. It does not pay for gas or electricity.

There are three different models available: full porch, half porch and no porch. All the models have three bedrooms and two bathrooms, and each has a footprint of 1,280 square feet, including the porches. Each home also comes with a personal storage shed.

Although manufactured and mobile homes have a bad perception around them, the build quality is much the same as stick-built homes, said Tim Hodge, zone manager for Titan Homes, the manufacturer of the homes. "Your drywall, your two-by-[fours], all your plumbing, your appliances; they're all the same stuff."

Even with that smaller footprint, the homes maximize living space, said Tim Hodge, zone manager for Titan Homes, which built these units. "When you walk in, it feels nice and open, and it's not cramped."

The homes are built to federal standard, Hodge said, and use the same materials that stick-built homes use, like drywall and wooden floors.

The cheapest model is the half-porch, at $189,900, next is the full-porch model, at $194,900, and the home without a porch sells for $204,900.

These prices put the homes in the "attainable" range for people looking to stop renting, Whaling said. "It also is building equity and establishing their home ownership."

A few hours after the ribbon-cutting event, a family of three became the first to purchase a home in Allendale Pines North. They bought a full-porch model for $194,900, putting 5 percent down.

Prospective buyers can stop by during the open houses. The first is from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday; on subsequent Saturdays Allendale North will have open houses from 10 a.m. to noon.

Whaling said the overall project cost is between $1.2 million and $1.4 million, but declined to disclose how much Teton Management spent to purchase the manufactured homes.

Once the initial batch of six homes sell, Whaling said, Teton will bring in six more.

In all, the company plans to bring in 22 homes, said Chris Vecchia, community manager for Teton Management.

"It's probably our goal to have all 22 in by this time next year," he said.