{"id":530116,"date":"2010-04-16T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:424315"},"modified":"2010-04-16T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:18:00","slug":"home-renos-point-to-healthy-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530116","title":{"rendered":"Home renos point to healthy economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/tradingdesk\/renos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/tradingdesk\/renos.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no surer sign of an improving economy than a jump in home renovations. So applaud the latest news from the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity, compiled by Harvard University\u2019s Joint Center for Housing Studies. <\/p>\n<p>The indicator measures U.S. homeowner spending on improvements during the preceding year. It fell off a cliff in 2007 and staggered through 2008 and 2009, but is finally showing signs of life. It is expected to grow nearly 5% this year. \u201cIt may be that people who can\u2019t sell their homes are deciding that, if they have to stay put, they might as well renovate,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/04\/recession-recovery-remodeling\/39029\/\" >says Richard Florida<\/a>, a professor at the University of Toronto. If so, now might be a good time to book a contractor\u2014or bet on a stronger economy.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><i>Freelance business journalist <b>Ian McGugan<\/b> blogs for the Financial Post<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=424315\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no surer sign of an improving economy than a jump in home renovations. So applaud the latest news from the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity, compiled by Harvard University\u2019s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The indicator measures U.S. homeowner spending on improvements during the preceding year. It fell off a cliff in 2007 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}