Nadia Evangelou is a senior economist and director of forecasting at the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). She focuses on regional and local market housing trends, including the effects of changing demographic and migration patterns, and has been involved in research …
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What Housing Holds
A Q&A with Abbe Will about the housing market Abbe Will is a research associate and associate project director of the Remodeling Futures Program for the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Hardware Retailing spoke to Will about …
Read More »Small Businesses Remain Optimistic
A Q&A with Holly Wade about the economy Holly Wade is the executive director of the NFIB Research Center, where she conducts original research and studies public policy effects on small businesses. She produces NFIB’s monthly Small Business Economic Trends …
Read More »Canadian Retailers See Chaotic Rebound
The Canadian retail hardware industry has weathered similar conditions to its southern neighbors through much of 2020. But before the pandemic, sales by the industry overall were facing negative growth at the end of 2019 for the first time since …
Read More »Market Measure 2020: The Industry’s Annual Report
Years from now, when our children and grandchildren are studying history, there will almost certainly be a chapter in their virtual textbooks that focuses on 2020. One might easily argue that 2020 will be remembered among the most influential years …
Read More »Join Us for a Webinar Featuring the 2020 Market Measure Report
With all the ups and downs the economy has seen throughout 2020, it is more important now than ever to have a clear understanding of where the home improvement industry has been and where it may be headed. Join NHPA’s …
Read More »Trainer’s Corner: Focus on Financials
In this month’s issue of Hardware Retailing, the Market Measure report includes results from NHPA’s 2020 Cost of Doing Business Study, a valuable tool as you make plans for the coming year. By comparing numbers in this study against your …
Read More »NHPA Presents the 2020 Market Measure Report
Tune in on Dec. 16 to a webinar on the 2020 Market Measure Report presented by Dan Tratensek, NHPA executive vice president and executive editor of Hardware Retailing. In this webinar, Tratensek will break down the economic trends and events …
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