Remodeling Activity

Groundworks aims to train 5,000 trade frontliners to meet repair crisis

Groundworks, a large foundation repair and water management contractor, plans to create 5,000 skilled trades jobs over the next five years as demand for structural and moisture remediation grows across the aging U.S. housing stock, the company said. The Virginia Beach, Virginia-based firm, which operates 84 offices across the U.S. and Canada, called the initiative […]

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Block Renovation’s Julie Kheyfets on aging-in-place renovations and ADUs

As the senior demographic continues to grow and evolve, reverse mortgage professionals may be getting more questions about home renovation projects and how to fund them. Tapping into home equity through a traditional reverse mortgage, a proprietary product or even the vastly underutilized HECM for Purchase program can be a path for seniors to repair

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The edge that large remodelers leverage in a fragmented industry

The edge that large remodelers leverage in a fragmented industry

Like its residential construction counterpart – homebuilding – the more than $500 billion residential remodeling industry remains highly geographically fragmented and varies widely in firm size, despite a slight increase in M&A activity since the COVID pandemic. In an industry dominated by small operators, larger players compete at an advantage in several areas, such as

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Fix-and-flips fill a critical entry-level home vacuum, data reveals

Fix-and-flip investors brought more homes to entry-level market homebuyers in 2025 than homebuilders, a new data analysis from real estate investment platform New Western asserts.  The report defines starter homes as those priced at $261,000 and below. While there aren’t many homes available at that price point in a wide range of major cities, many

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