Tag: home improvement

Last week, Amazon announced an agreement with Sears to begin selling the Kenmore brand of appliances through its website, starting with air conditioners and expanding to a full-line of home appliances at a later date. ...

Last week, ATTOM Data Solutions released its quarterly Home Flipping Report, meant to quantify homes that were purchased and sold within a 12-month period in an arms-length transaction. Historically, we believe that house flipping has carried ...

Since the presidential election, the 10-year Treasury yield has increased approximately 50 basis points, driving 30-year fixed mortgage rates up a similar amount. With the average 30-year rate in 2017 expected to increase at least 60 basis ...

We estimate that home improvement spending increased 5% across the country in 2016, representing the seventh consecutive annual increase after declining the previous three years. Since bottoming in 2009, we estimate that spending has increased ...