Get Ready: Home Improvement Startups are Set to Surge at the Fastest Pace than ever Before

Ambreen Sajjad
Marketing And Growth Hacking
3 min readApr 26, 2019
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Home improvement industry is projected to grow at some fastest pace especially in more than a decade this year, this has been revealed in a report presented last year.

The leading indicator of home renovation, carefully produced by an efficient and reliable Joint Center for the Harvard University, simply recommends people to spend on different remodeling solutions and repairs, and have estimated around $360 billion in last year, which is 8.5% higher than the overall spending ratio in 2017.

Now, this is supposed to be the biggest yearly increase since our final quarter of 2007 when it was a time of great recession and homeowners were planning to spend maximum on different renovations. And it couldn’t only boost the industries that offer such solutions but also impact on the broader economy.

According to the Joint Center for Harvard University, “Stability in economic conditions and home prices and sales have started to support great demand for all kinds of home improvements”. But spending results of 2018 would also be boosted greatly by restoration from some natural disasters in 2016–2017.

Home improvement industry has further grown in frequency as there are many fresh homeowners who are trying to choose some latest trends and putting efforts to improve their homes rather than finding the new one in an expensive rate.

In fact, home improvement startups have surged almost 40% in the last six years, according to the current survey results which provide you some detailed historical insights for various financial institutions

The Index, which is also called the LIRA, simply gauges the activity level in remodeling by building some essential indicators like small family housing starts, and existing-home sales and home price indices as compared to others.

These indicators help measure the housing market solutions and trends which are pushing more & more people to renovate their homes for better investment plans. According to the experts, exceptionally lean inventory in your business market simply means that there are just a few of the homeowners who are really willing to trade up and these high levels of home equity are also helping and enabling them to upgrade their homes for more benefits.

Biggest home improvement companies have already seen the remodeling boom thousands of times in the reports over the period of the last few quarters.

Like in the mid of 2017, Carol Tomé has revealed that retailer saw some additional tailwind- the greatest number of first-time homeowners since 2007.

“Today, first-time homeowners prefer buying the homes which need some simple remodel and repair.” Carol Tome further said, we have observed and anticipated the happening, like with thousands of people are now coming into this age where they prefer starting their families, pets, and children or whatever their social system might look like, they move into the homes which predicts very well, and to the most common point, it helps extends the recovery.”

According to their findings and results, many homeowners tend to explore innovative home improvement ideas so they can help make their homes a better place to live and can invest more efficiently.

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Ambreen Sajjad
Marketing And Growth Hacking

I am a professional content writer and contributor of numerous publications. I love to read, and create different newsworthy blogs and opinions.