Housing Market Exhibits Resiliency
Housing Market Exhibits Resiliency
Remodeling Expenditures
Cabinet & Vanity Sales
Home Sales
Appliance Shipments
Domestic shipments of major home appliances continued to slip
downward from last year's record pace, falling 6.4% in March
compared to the same month in 2000, the Association of Home
Appliance Manufacturers reported. According to the Washington,
DC-based AHAM, appliance year-to-date shipments in the first three
months of 2001 totaling about 15.9 million units were 9.9% below
the pace set in the January-March time period last year. Declines
were posted in virtually all appliance product categories,
including sales of gas ranges (down 12.5%), kitchen cleanup
products (down 8.1%), and food preservation appliances (down 5.5%),
AHAM reported.
