John Burns Maps a Drawn-Out Building Products Recovery as Tech Wealth Skips Home Improvement

At a webinar on the state of building products, John Burns Research and Consulting principal Nishu Sood urged manufacturers and dealers to plan for a recovery that arrives slowly and unevenly, citing a 91 percent surge in home-buying costs, remodeling sticker shock and a tech-investment boom that has long shaped the Puget Sound economy.