The Generational Age Group Analysis of Home Improvement Activity is a compilation of information pulled from multiple studies analyzing the different attitudes, project activity and purchase habits of homeowners within generational age groups and home improvement.
Learn what types of homes people are purchasing, the types of projects they undertook not only on that new home but any recently sold homes, timelines, spend and priorities.
Where do contractors prefer to shop for the products they use for their projects? Learn more from HIRI’s 3rd Qtr 2022 Contractor Topic Study.
The Product Purchase Tracking Study is a comprehensive overview of product purchases, tracking incidence, spend purchase location, use and more. Detailed reports for 14 product categories are also available.
Understand consumer purchasing dynamics regarding 16 home improvement product categories, and how those dynamics might have changed compared to prior years. Areas explored include retail shopping activity, the average amount spent, retailer purchase reason and satisfaction, cross-category purchasing and more.
This custom research highlights the growth of smart home devices and solutions, including the increased value of technology, role of the home network and Wi-Fi solutions, and the impact of the pandemic on home improvements and second home ownership.
Supply chain constraints, product pricing and extended timelines are an ongoing problem for Pro contractors. Learn some insights into what the Pros are seeing on the ground-level with this release of the Contractor Topical survey.
As part of our commitment to provide HIRI members with some of the best research, we have partnered with Trend Hunter, a leader in trend spotting, to help identified what are some of the trends that play a role in the home, housing, and home improvement. As part of this partnership, we will be releasing a series of reports focusing on these trends. Along with the information itself within the report, each one gives an opportunity to dig deeper into the various topics to related writings and articles supporting these trends.
To identify unmet needs in project planning, HIRI conducts a bi-annual project decision study covering 19 different project categories. The surveys included insightful questions into consumers’ project schedules and decision-making processes, highlighting motivations for the project, project costs, and roles of household members and paid professionals.
Many homeowners approach their home improvement projects with great ambition. Whether they’re skilled with their hands or simply have spare time, the do-it-yourself approach relies on the homeowner to tackle projects without outside help.