Barometer

Despite massive political and economic upheaval, September was on balance an ‘ok’ month for UK window and door sales. There was a small drop of

There is little doubt that a slowdown has and is happening. Year-on-year sales figures for this August are down seven per cent on where they

I’m going to start this month with a focus on longer term trends because this broader context is important in helping us to understand what

We can now say with confidence that the market cooled significantly in the last quarter, with sales dropping by around 12% in the three months

This month’s figures evidence a continuing slowdown in the home improvement market with sales down 9% in May on April, which recorded a drop of

We are seeing a slowdown. Average window and sales in April dropped 13% on March, while leads dropped by 20%. It’s consistent with the lack

It’s a big figure but probably only reinforces something that retailers have instinctively known.  Average order values crashed in the last month – by more

It’s too early to say what the impact war between Russia and Ukraine will have on the UK economy but it is likely that it

Figures for window and door sales last month [January 2022] show a 47% uplift in sales as the industry shook off the festive period hangover

Figures for window and door sales last month [December 2021] show a 38% fall in sales. That’s a substantial but not entirely unexpected drop: a

The reaction of markets (and the UK national media) to emergence of Omicron, the new variant of COVID-19, echoes what we’ve seen every time cases

According to the latest Government statistics, the provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions in September 2021 was 160,950, 68.4% higher than September 2020 and 67.5%