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Mike LaFirenza As with many industries, the construction industry experienced major setbacks in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Construction projects

Mike LaFirenza More than 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, much about the pandemic-era economy remains unusual and difficult to analyze. From a labor marke

Mike LaFirenza The residential real estate market has been booming during the COVID-19 pandemic, with more buyers looking for homes and competing for unusually

While 2020 was a year that many industries would soon like to forget, plumbers’ popularity hit all-time highs.According to Google search trends, searches for local plumbers and other contractors hit their highest levels in five years as more homeowners launched home improvement projects during the pandemic. Whether those homeowners had enough cash to pay for repairs and renovations or tried to do the work themselves and ran into trouble, the result was the same: a call or email to the...

Homeowners in these cities are taking advantage of low interest rates to refinance their mortgages.

Tennessee is now seeing a 31.5% increase in construction spending since the start of COVID, which is in total contrast to the downturn we saw when the pandemic first hit.The seasonally adjusted annual amount of construction spending hit a low of $547 billion nationwide in May of 2020. But by August, construction spending started to go back up throughout America. In fact, construction spending topped $700 billion every month since December.To give you a better idea of progress, 8,900 homes that ...

These fields have the most injury-prone jobs, according to federal data.

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... A worker is silhouetted in a second-story window of a home under construction in the Mesa del Sol subdivision Thursday. The master-planned community, one area in Albuquerque where new residential construction is occurring, now has 300 homes. The development’s master plan eventually calls for 37,500...

The Top Reasons Mortgage Loans Are Denied Lattice, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Photo Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Although interest rates have inched up recently, they remain at historic lows, spurring demand in both home purchases and mortgage refinancing. However, many lenders have tightened up their borrowing standards due to the economic uncertainty of the pandemic, and hopeful loan applicants may find it hard to get approved. According to loan-level mortgage data from the Home Mortgage...

Photo Credit: Alamy Stock Photo For anyone seeking a promising career option with plenty of opportunity in the next few decades, becoming an electrician would be a good choice. Electricians enter the field without four-year degrees and can instead opt for a less expensive trade school education or an apprenticeship that allows them to earn while they hone their skills. Demand for electricians’ services is already fairly steady, since everyone relies on electricity, but the field also has b...