by Web Editor | Aug 26, 2013 | News
Total housing starts rose 35% year-over-year in the first quarter of this year, according to data from Deloitte. Single-family home construction contributed 500,000 jobs to the economy year-over-year in July, implying a thriving builder market. But many homebuilders...
by Web Editor | Jul 22, 2013 | News
Economic recovery is producing promising outgrowths for the Southern lumber and timber industry. Increasing demand and constrained supply globally are inciting a long-term rebound across the U.S., which is good news for Florida where timber resources are an important...
by Web Editor | May 13, 2013 | News
U.S. lumber prices are falling in response to a late, cold spring in some parts of the country, and to a sharp first-quarter production increase by mills that may have overestimated gains in housing starts, lumber industry participants said. By early May, industry...
by Web Editor | May 6, 2013 | News
North American mills are sawing lumber at the fastest pace in six years after a recovering U.S. housing market, a beetle infestation in Canada and increasing Chinese demand drove the biggest price surge in two decades. About 55.5 billion of the industry’s standard...
by Web Editor | May 1, 2013 | News
With new home construction hitting a million new starts a year for the first time since 2008, a national forest management firm reports that timber prices for large standing trees are rising off the bottom and lumber is starting to soar. Marshall Thomas, president of...