Financials
Business financials advice, reports, and trends for professional home builders and remodelers.
The reports of the economy's demise have been greatly exaggerated. For example, USA Today reports that, while construction activity is not as strong...
Expenditures for residential remodeling will rise 5.6% to $166.6 billion next year after a significant slowdown in 2001.
Even in these times of economic correction, slowdown, mini-recession or whatever other term is being thrown about these days, custom and luxury...
According to a published survey, construction companies ranked customer satisfaction as their primary indicator of business success.
The Labor Department’s construction materials composite price index declined by 0.1% between February and March.
Spending by homeowners on home improvement projects increased modestly to $102.5 billion for the four quarters ending in the first quarter of 2001.
The dominant single-family sub-sector of the market continues to perform very well, while the multifamily subsector has suffered from drop-off in...
The top three states in terms of new residential permit volume accounted for 27.5 percent of all permits issued nationally.
Even in this age of electronic commerce, paper transactions still dominate the U.S. payments system.
As the buzz about the growing boomer market and its impact on the remodeling industry intensifies, it’s important to understand the factors that...
