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2025 Outlook for New Single Family Residential Construction

Builder confidence is currently down to a reading of 43 in June of 2024, but housing starts are forecasted to pick up in 2025. Let's take a look at a handful of indicators painting the evolving story 2025 single family residential construction.

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Building & Construction

Uncertainty Creeping Into Contractors' Future Business Outlooks in Q2 of 2023

A new narrative is taking shape, in contrast to contractor sentiments than we’ve been seeing for the last couple of years. Pay attention to how contractor outlook for the future of 2023 and especially 2024 is changing. Here’s what we’re seeing:

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Home Improvement
Building & Construction

Independent Home Improvement Retailers Report Lingering Business Slowdowns Preceding 2023

In Q4, retailers were seeing year over year improvement in transaction count and profit margins compared to Q3, however cost of goods continues to be a concern.

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Building & Construction
Home Improvement

How Design Pros Evaluate Options When Specifying Building Products

As commercial and residential construction evolves, existing design trends will both drive the emergence of new trends while simultaneously keeping pace with current trends. An important customer segment to keep in mind is Designer Pros. Here's are key drivers in how these professionals specify building products.

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Building & Construction
Customer Usage and Attitude

Understanding Your Pro Customers: How to Increase Building Material Sales Among Builders, Remodelers, and GCs in 2024

Our market research team at The Farnsworth Group surveyed Builders, Remodelers & General Contractors across the United States to compare continuity to shifts in how Pros research, find, select, and purchase building materials and home improvement products. Review the latest findings:

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Building & Construction
Customer Usage and Attitude

10 Trends and Potential Disruptors to the MEP Industry Over the Next 5 Years

As you strategize for the future, here are ten of the potential disruptors, constraints and trends impacting the MEP industry.

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Building & Construction
Market Sizing
Customer Usage and Attitude

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