Stuart Hirschhorn, research director at Catalina Research, talks about the strength of the remodeling market and it’s performance in 2018, as well as his expectations for 2019. He discusses how the housing resale market, which has been sluggish, affects remodeling and how home values have risen in the last five years. Hirschhorn also talks about factors, such as low unemployment and higher wages, and the effects they are having on the housing and remodeling markets. Also discussed are factors he reads as a gauge of the housing market, such as interest rates and expectations for the Federal Reserve.