Barometer

I ended last month’s Barometer by asking if we could see a positive end to a tricky year. We know that this month [December 2023]

At a glance, the Business Pilot Barometer figures look promising for October 2023: average leads were up 16.5% to 115.9, and average sales jumped 18.9%

As we head into the final quarter of 2023, the industry is in much better shape than at the start of the year. Looking back

The headline figure this month is that at 47.4, sales are up 5.8% in August 2023 from July, which is 20.3% higher than the same

Business Pilot users are on average converting 43.9% of leads. This is a 3.3% increase on the already high June figure of 42.5%, and a

In June, the Bank of England raised the baseline interest rate to 5%, and signalled that it could be raised further before the end of

Returning to offices and showrooms following three positive days at the FIT Show in Birmingham last month [May 2023], it is reassuring to see that

‘We are seeing a slowdown. Average window and door sales in April [2022] dropped 13% on March, while leads dropped by 20%’. There is a

March delivered another shock to the UK economy as inflation jumped from the 10.1% seen in February, to 10.4% in March, reversing the downward trajectory

 At the start of this month [March] £1bn was knocked off the share price of the UK’s quoted housebuilders in a single morning [1/3/23]. It

To put things into context for a moment. At the end of January, the Bank of England said that it now believes that the downturn

December was what December normally is – a slow month for window and door sales. Leads were down 40% on November and sales were down