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Greg Brooks

A remodeling renaissance

You wouldn’t know it from the latest housing numbers, but some LBM dealers are having a very good year so far

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Thrilla in vanilla

If anyone had told you three years ago that the heavyweight championship bout of the decade would feature the Federal

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Roadside assistance

A couple of weeks ago, Zonda’s Todd Tomalak published an article in Builder titled “What Does 2023 Have in Common

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Smooth sailing

If you’re wishing economists would just make up their minds about whether we’re having a recession or not, you aren’t

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Crash pad

November data is in and there are no surprises in the U.S. housing market: Affordability is in the tank and

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Free falling

U.S. housing starts fell for the fifth consecutive month in October, landing at 1.425 million annualized. That’s still well above the

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Fresh off the truck

By now you’ve probably heard the news: McDonald’s announced that it’s launching a new chain of upscale steakhouses that will

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