Small Businesses Feel the Pinch From Slowing Housing Market
Handymen, landscapers and more are seeing business dwindle as homeowners cut spending.
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Handymen, landscapers and more are seeing business dwindle as homeowners cut spending.
The chill in the housing market is rippling out to the carpenters, landscapers and other small businesses that lose out when fewer homeowners are renovating their properties.
Higher mortgage rates put a damper on the number of homes being sold.
Inflation was already causing some homeowners to delay big renovation projects as prices for building materials, fixtures and appliances jumped.
The chill in the housing market is rippling out to the carpenters, landscapers and other small businesses that lose out when fewer homeowners are renovating their properties.