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Newport Beach, CA, October 27, 2022-Barron Frith, president of CFL, was elected as secretary/treasurer for the Resilient Floor Covering Institute during the RFCI Fall Meeting at the Resort on Pelican Hill.
Dalton, GA, October 27, 2022-Shaw has been named a 2022 Shipper of Choice by FreightWaves, in partnership with TriumphPay.
Dalton, GA, October 27, 2022—As part of CARE’s efforts to increase carpet collection for recycling across the state, it has announced its latest public carpet recycling drop-off sites.
Crossville, TN, October 27, 2022-A fire broke out Wednesday morning at Crossville Hardwoods in Crossville, Tennessee, according to WBIR.
Calhoun, GA, October 27, 2022-Mannington Commercial announced that its Legato Liquid Linoleum flooring product has attained USDA BioPreferred certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Washington, DC, October 26, 2022—Sales of new single-family houses in September 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 603,000, according to estimates released jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 10.9% below the revised August rate of 677,000 and is 17.6% below the September 2021 estimate of 732,000.
New York, NY, October 26, 2022—"Home prices posted their biggest month-on-month decline in more than a decade in August as rising mortgage rates weighed on home-buying demand,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
Lancaster, PA, October 26, 2022-Ecore announced the hiring of Josh Jensen as the new chief financial officer of Ecore International.
New York, NY, October 26, 2022—After a long stretch of record-high rents, Americans are renting fewer apartments as demand in the third quarter fell to its lowest level in 13 years, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Washington, DC, October 26, 2022—Mortgage applications decreased 1.7% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending October 21, 2022.