Author: Madison’s Lumber Reporter

  • US House Price Index

    This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for May. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for April. The CoreLogic HPI is a three month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA). CoreLogic Reports National Homes Prices Rose by 6.3 Percent Year Over Year in May 2015 CoreLogic® … Tuesday released its May 2015 CoreLogic…

  • Architecture Billing Index, US : May 2015

    After experiencing relatively soft business conditions for much of the past winter and spring, many architecture firms saw signs of improvement in May. The AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) increased by more than three points to a score of 51.9 in May, where any score over 50 indicates billings growth. As a positive sign of…

  • Housing Starts, Japan: May 2015

    Total housing starts in Japan for May were 71,720 unit, 5.8 per cent more than May last year, according to the Japan Lumber Reports Friday. On a seasonally adjusted basis Japan housing starts in May were 911,000 units, 0.2 per cent less than April. Japan Housing Starts Japan housing starts for the first five months…

  • US Home New and Existing Sales: May and June 2105

    The rate of new single-family home sales, as estimated by the Census Bureau Wednesday, improved to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 546,000 in May, the fastest pace in seven years and a 2.2 per cent increase over April. Meanwhile the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index increased for the fifth straight…

  • Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills: April 2015

    Compared with April 2014, Canadian lumber production rose by 6.9 per cent, to 5,617 thousand cubic metres. Lumber production by sawmills in Canada decreased 0.7 per cent from March, said Statistics Canada Thursday. Sawmills shipped 5,434 thousand cubic metres of lumber in April, down 0.9 per cent from March.