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New York, NY, July 22, 2025—The Spruce asked two designers—Sky Hofstatter, owner and principal designer at House of Hof, and Lauren Kyle, founder and principal designer at Kyle & Co—to weigh in on outdated flooring trends for 2025.
Seattle, WA, July 21, 2025—Slower demand from buyers has more homes for sale now than at any time since 2019, according to the latest market report from Zillow.
Washington, DC, July 21, 2025-At the Flooring Sustainability Summit, which took place in Washington, DC, July 16 and 17, Mohawk and PID Floors received awards.
Waregem, Belgium, July 21, 2025—Unilin Technologies has announced a new licensing agreement with Unispec for Engineering Industries, marking a milestone as the first Egyptian SPC licensee to join Unilin’s network.
Seattle, WA, July 21, 2025-Nearly 15% (14.9%) of pending home sales fell through in June, up from 13.9% a year earlier, according to Redfin.
Washington, DC, July 18, 2025-Scott Humphrey, CEO of the WFCA, awarded Ray Anderson’s World Floor Covering Association Hall of Fame Award to Ray’s grandson, John Lanier, at the Flooring Sustainability Summit held this week in Washington, D.C.
Ann Arbor, MI, July 18, 2025-U.S. consumer sentiment reached its highest value in five months in early July, inching up about one index point to 61.8, according to preliminary results from the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers.
New York, NY, July 18, 2025-Economists have become more optimistic about the U.S. economy’s near-term performance, according to the latest Wall Street Journal quarterly survey.
Washington, DC, July 18, 2025-Privately owned housing starts in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,321,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is 4.6% above the revised May estimate of 1,263,000, but is 0.5% below the June 2024 rate of 1,327,000.
Cambridge, MA, July 18, 2025-Annual expenditures for improvements and maintenance to owner-occupied homes are expected to soften in 2026, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released this week by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.