Most experts predict a slowdown.
By Nina Patel Slightly down but not out. That's what most industry watchers foresee for the remodeling market. Though they evaluate the market differently, they have come to the conclusion that the slowdown will reverse by 2002. Two indicators of the remodeling industry's future are the prime rate and existing home sales, which Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies includes in its remodeling activity indicator. The prime rate climbed and is now decreasing, says Kermit Baker, director of the Center's Remodeling Futures Program.