MECHANIC FALLS — Business appeared to be brisk Friday as the 10th annual Oxford Hills Home Show opened for three days.

“This has been a good swift flow of traffic,” Mark Belanger of Design First Homes Inc. on Route 121 in Mechanic Falls said as he talked to customers about a Nantucket Cape home.

Customers from as far away as Rumford, Brunswick and Scarborough were already touring the modular homes, many doing the entire loop of sites along Route 26 in Oxford down to Design First Inc. in Mechanic Falls. Some were just window shopping, and others said they were looking to buy.

Rachelle and Clifford Knight of Scarborough, who were looking for a home to put on property they own in that city, said they were impressed with what they had seen so far.

“There are several we already like,” Rachelle Knight said.

The show runs through Sunday and is expected to draw buyers from across New England. The show is the largest housing show in New England with the largest confluence of retail manufactured home builders in one area in New England, according to information from the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce.

The manufactured housing businesses in the area have combined to host the show under the umbrella of the Housing Capital of New England — a group of competitive manufactured home business that banded together in an attempt to make the industry in Oxford Hills stronger.

The group is represented by five local businesses: Schiavi Home Builders and Twin Town Homes on Route 26 in Oxford, Design First Homes Inc. on Route 121 in Mechanic Falls, and Turn Key Homes and Alternative Modular Homes/Palmer Development Corp. both on Route 26 in Oxford.

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