A Construction hiring is picking up as Americans invest in renovating their homes amid signs that the worst of the housing market declines may be over to the number of people working in residential remodeling grew 5.8 percent in December to 250,700 from a year earlier in based on preliminary data released Feb. 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the highest growth for these jobs in account for about 5 percent of construction employment to be December 2006 before the housing bubble burst.
The sales of existing homes, which rose 5 percent in December to precede spending on improvement projects by about six months, as new owners often do a lot of “fix-ups” soon after they move in, said Kermit Baker, a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies to means for now a “strengthening market” for this work, buoyed by demand that’s more discretionary in nature minor kitchen remodels and mild winter weather in much of the U.S and the more remodeling projects are going to create more jobs in the construction industry,” said Baker is the chief economist for the American Institute of Architects.
The sales of existing homes, which rose 5 percent in December to precede spending on improvement projects by about six months, as new owners often do a lot of “fix-ups” soon after they move in, said Kermit Baker, a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies to means for now a “strengthening market” for this work, buoyed by demand that’s more discretionary in nature minor kitchen remodels and mild winter weather in much of the U.S and the more remodeling projects are going to create more jobs in the construction industry,” said Baker is the chief economist for the American Institute of Architects.
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