Webinars

The impact of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic on the behav­ior of home improve­ment pro­fes­sion­als and DIY­ers has been sig­nif­i­cant. HIRI and The Farnsworth Group made it a pri­or­i­ty start­ing late March 2020 to study home improve­ment project behav­ior to stay on top of this trend each month. View HIR­I’s webi­nar where Grant Farnsworth, The Farnsworth Group dis­cussed the evo­lu­tion of home improve­ment behav­ior of both the DIY­er and Pro through the pandemic.

Many indus­tries have been impact­ed neg­a­tive­ly by the pan­dem­ic, but the home improve­ment indus­try has been boom­ing. See HIR­I’s webi­nar where Scott Hazel­ton, IHS Mark­it, pre­sent­ed HIR­I’s fore­casts of the US Size of the Home Improve­ment Prod­ucts Mar­ket and dis­cussed fac­tors dri­ving the increases.

The effects of COVID have been immense for the remod­el­ing indus­try. This webi­nar presents the find­ings from the HIRI/​Caney Group qual­i­ta­tive study to under­stand the impact of COVID on how fam­i­lies use their homes and the home improve­ment projects they completed.

Shel­ter­ing in place this past year has ele­vat­ed the impor­tance of the home and will reshape con­sumer con­cep­tions and needs for years to come. Our webi­nar, pre­sent­ed in partne

See HIR­I’s webi­nar fea­tur­ing Tom Allen, Vice Pres­i­dent at Deci­sion Ana­lyst dis­cussing the rise in first-time buy­ers, why they are tran­si­tion­ing into the hous­ing mar­ket, and the types of remod­el­ing activ­i­ty done by the novice homeowners.

View HIR­I’s webi­nar where Scott Hazel­ton of IHS Mark­it presents updates to the econ­o­my and home improve­ment prod­ucts mar­ket from the Sep­tem­ber 2020 forecast.

This webi­nar pro­vides high-lev­el results of HIR­I’s Prod­uct Pur­chase Track­ing Study, and focus­es pri­mar­i­ly on our enhanced view of sea­son­al­i­ty in indi­vid­ual and cat­e­go­ry-lev­el product

In this webi­nar, Scott Hazel­ton of IHS Mark­it reviews the cur­rent state of the econ­o­my, the home improve­ment mar­ket and sum­ma­rize their eco­nom­ic and home improve­ment fore­casts for the next few years. This webi­nar pulls infor­ma­tion from HIR­I’s Fall 2020 release of the US Size of the Home Improve­ment Prod­ucts Market.

Blake Kozak, Sr. Prin­ci­pal Ana­lyst of Omdia presents device and chan­nel trends that will influ­ence the smart home mar­ket today and in the years to come.

Home­own­er pur­chas­ing pat­terns have slow­ly changed over the years and the ongo­ing pan­dem­ic has added to the change. Grant Farnsworth of the Farnsworth Group presents shift­ing pat­terns in DIY chan­nel behav­ior and how mem­bers can under­stand their poten­tial customers.

NPD presents results from HIR­I’s Online Home Improve­ment Con­sumer dig­ging into the behav­iors of the online buyer.