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In 2020, Americans spent a good amount of time at home. This spurred projects such as as sourdough baking, puzzle completion, and scrambling to turn corners of the home into a suitable background for zoom meetings. Indeed, while cooped up during the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans decided it was time for a home remodeling project. As Rachel White, the chief executive of Byggmeister Design-Build<\/a>, put it to the Boston Globe, \u201cThe pandemic has sort of been a tipping point for people\u2026 [they] are in their homes 24\/7, with their entire family, and things that may have bothered them but were in the background have really become front and center.\u201d As a result, as COVID restrictions loosened homeowners turned to platforms such as HomeAdvisor powered by Angi<\/a> to take on remodeling tasks both big and small.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HomeAdvisor, which was founded in 1998 and acquired by parent company InterActiveCorp (IAC) in 2007, merged with Angie\u2019s list in 2017 when IAC acquired the latter company as well. HomeAdvisor powered by Angi (hereafter HomeAdvisor) is a two-sided business platform that connects home service providers with (mostly) homeowners looking to complete home-improvement tasks but don\u2019t have the skills or desire to complete them themselves. One one side of the market, HomeAdvisor creates value by offering customers a way to locate, vet via reviews, compare prices between, and schedule appointments with home service providers such as painters, landscapers, plumbers, builders, and the like. On the other side of the market, HomeAdvisor creates a central platform on which home service providers can advertise their services, and connects them to clients who may otherwise never have found them. Entrepreneurs and small business owners often need to be jacks-of-all-trades and handle not only service provision but also marketing and other business administration. HomeAdvisor supports with marketing, and can even help providers price their services accurately<\/a> and competitively.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HomeAdvisor and similar platforms such as Thumbtack<\/a> and Houzz<\/a> are interesting for their sustainability and scale even in times of economic downturn. Even as the housing market crashed in 2008 the home improvement market grew steadily: the homeownership rate in the United States has remained stable at around 65% for decades, and one can easily see the economic potential in the home improvement business given that there are 127 million owner-occupied housing units in the US, and the average home improvement spend is $10,341 (Mischa Fisher, Chief Economist at Angi, public lecture 2022). While the platform is free to use, HomeAdvisor captures value by charging service providers a fee for qualified leads for home improvement jobs. The platform was remarkably resilient to the shock of the COVID 19 pandemic and reported $1.5 billion in 2020 revenue<\/a> – a growth of 11% from 2019. Given HomeAdvisor\u2019s steady growth despite shocks and the expansive potential<\/a> of the merger with Angi, it\u2019s not difficult to imagine the company\u2019s continued success.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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