Here Are the Best ROI Home Improvement Projects
Homeowners are focused on which home jobs will give them the best bang for the buck: the trade should be doing the same thing. Home improvement projects run the gamut from quick fixes to full-blown remodels but a new survey from Ace Handyman Services found that certain ones give homeowners the best return on their […]
NAHB Reports Remodeling Gaining on New Construction
The new home building market remains stagnant but a new study reports home renovation is driving a larger share of the building market. The number of remodeling companies has nearly doubled over the past 25 years, the National Association of Home Builders discovered when analyzing census bureau data, growing from fewer than 69,000 companies to […]
Harvard Confirms Remodeling Forecasts
Continuing what we’ve seen from other studies, this is the latest outlook from Harvard’s prestigious housing studies program. Oftentimes, research studies present contradictory findings on any given subject. Currently, that’s not the case with the latest forecasts on the remodeling sector. The new Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) from Harvard’s Remodeling Futures Program at […]
Forecast for Home Improvements Taken Down for the Year
The Home Improvement Research Institute said “prevailing macroeconomic challenges” were causing a slowdown in the market. HIRI—the Home Improvement Research Institute—reported that the total home improvement market is now projected to grow by 3.4 percent in 2025, a reduction from the previous 5 percent growth rate projected in March. However the organization said it saw […]
New Houzz Study Points to Five Big Home Improvement Trends
The just-released Houzz & Home Study identifies the top home improvement projects that homeowners did in 2024. Houzz, the online resource for both professional builders and homeowners, identified five home renovation projects that were the top jobs last year, based on its latest survey of the field. It found that the overall median spend among […]
How Satisfied Are Homeowners with Remodeling Projects?
Americans spent $603 billion improving their homes last year but were they really happy with the results? We all know home improvement projects result in larger living spaces, updated amenities and improved homes – sometimes all three – yet once a project is done are homeowners satisfied with what was done? That’s what the National […]
Which Ten States Are Best for Home Remodeling Businesses?
A new study points to these states with homeowners “most committed” to upgrading their homes. Even as many current homeowners are hesitant to leave their low-rate mortgages and move elsewhere those very same people are quite interested in fixing up their current houses. A new study from the self-storage company SpareFoot identified ten states in […]
Kitchen and Bath Project Spending Still Above Pre-Covid Levels
Residential spending on kitchen and bath remodeling may never return to the heights of the pandemic spending frenzy but it is still topping the numbers from 2019. Not surprisingly, homeowners aren’t spending as much on their kitchen and bath remodeling projects this year as they did in 2022 but new numbers from the National Kitchen & […]