Author: Madison’s Lumber Reporter

  • US House Prices

    US home prices climbed 0.6 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis from June, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said in a report from Washington Tuesday. The gain was 5.8 per cent from a year earlier. The FHFA’s index is 1.1 per cent below its March 2007 peak and about the same as the November…

  • US New Home Sales, Prices: August 2015

    Sales of newly built homes reached the highest level since early 2008 in August, evidence that demand for housing is strengthening heading into autumn. Sales of new, single-family homes rose by 5.7 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 552,000, the Commerce Department said Thursday. US New Home Sales New- home sales account…

  • US Existing Home Sales, Prices: August 2015

    Existing home sales tumbled 4.8 per cent in August to a 5.31 million seasonally adjusted annual rate, the National Association of Realtors said Monday, the steepest month-to-month decline since January, when they fell 4.9 per cent. Existing Home Sales, US Behind the decline in existing home sales were particularly big drops in the West and…

  • US Housing Market: Latest Updates

    US Housing Market Two Outs in The Bottom of The Ninth “There is a good reason people with credit scores below 620 are classified as sub-prime. Scores this low result from missing multiple payments on credit cards and loans, having multiple collection items or judgments and potentially having a very recent bankruptcy or foreclosure. They…

  • Madison’s Lumber Reporter KEY PRICES Week of 09/28/15

    Madison’s Reporter ‏@LumberNews #LUMBER PRICES 09/25: WSPF KD 2×4 #2&Btr US$254 mfbm, +$4; WSPF KD PET 2×4 Studs $230, $0; Doug Fir green #2&Btr 2×4 $300, $0; OSB ON 7/16″ C$270 msf, $0. #LumberPrices #BuildingMaterials #HomeBuilding #timber http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/lumber-prices/