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Floorzap Appoints Dan Blake Head of Product, Technology

October 23, 2026

Floorzap Appoints Dan Blake Head of Product, Technology

Oakcrest Lumber Plants Acquired by New T&F Lumber Entity

Harvard: Remodeling Spending To Stay Flat Through Late 2027

Report: Walnut Passes Oak in Popularity With Designers

Floorzap Appoints Dan Blake Head of Product, Technology

Flooring retail software Floorzap (Lehi, Utah) appointed Dan Blake chief product and technology officer.

Oakcrest Lumber Plants Acquired by New T&F Lumber Entity

Oakcrest Lumber & Flooring LLC (Monticello, Ga.), a newly formed company owned by T&F Lumber Company, acquired the flooring manufacturing facilities and related lumber operations of Oakcrest Lumber Inc. in Buena Vista, Ga., and Newport, Tenn., effective Oct. 1, according to a press release.

Harvard: Remodeling Spending To Stay Flat Through Late 2027

Annual spending on home improvements and repairs is expected to hold roughly flat through the third quarter of 2027, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity released by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

Report: Walnut Passes Oak in Popularity With Designers

Walnut flooring is more popular with interior designers than oak, according to Anderson Tuftex’s (Dalton, Ga.) 2027 Floor Forecast report, which drew on findings from a Harris Poll survey of 512 “high-net-worth” homeowners and 251 interior designers.

Chilean Judge Orders Drug Retest on Wood Shipments

A judge in Arica, Chile, has suspended the destruction of Bolivian hardwood seized in the country’s record drug bust for at least 60 days so a state laboratory can retest it, according to Wood Central.

Drug enforcement officials with detection dog inspect seized Bolivian hardwood shipment at port facility

Pending Home Sales Drop 7.3% in September

Pending home sales fell 7.3% in September from August and 11.3% from September 2025, with declines in all four U.S. regions, according to the National Association of Realtors' Pending Home Sales report.

PID Floors Publishes Children’s Book About Trees, Sustainability

PID Floors (New York City) released its first children’s picture book, “Out of the City, Into the Forest: A Children’s Picture Book About Trees, Nature, and Protecting Our Planet.”

Children's book cover showing a brown SUV driving down a forest road with city skyline visible in the distance

Single-Family Starts Down in September

Single-family housing starts dropped 4.6% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 859,000 units as builders contended with high financing and material costs and continued labor shortages, according to the National Association of Home Builders' analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development data.

Home Builder Confidence Falls to 14-Year Low

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes fell three points to 29 in October, the lowest reading since June 2012, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

WFB Briefs: Submissions Open for WIFI’s Women of Distinction Award, Floor & Decor To Open Raleigh Store, More

Submissions are open for WIFI's Women of Distinction Award, Floor & Decor will open its first store in Raleigh, N.C., and more.

Stronger Enforcement Drives 15% Cut in Global Deforestation

Global deforestation fell 15% in 2025 to just over 7 million hectares (about 17.3 million acres), the largest annual decline since the 2018–2020 baseline period, according to the Forest Declaration Assessment 2026.

60,000 Hectares of Illegal Timber Clearing Uncovered by Interpol

An international operation coordinated by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) led to 233 arrests for environmental crimes and identified 60,000 hectares (about 148,000 acres) of illegally cleared forest across nine Latin American and Caribbean countries.

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