This Harvard study has just been released and is confirming what we are seeing in the local Tampa market. With the economy stabilizing, homeowners are beginning to take advantage of low materials pricing, availably of quality contractor labor, and record low interest rates. If you are thinking about remodeling your home, you are not alone:
Press Release
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Homeowner improvement spending is likely to reach a cyclical bottom in the current quarter and steadily increase through 2010 according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA), released today by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The LIRA projects annual declines in home improvement spending will ease from the current rate of 12.0 percent to 3.1 percent in the third quarter of 2010.
To read the full article visit:
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/media/lira/index.html
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