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Author: Madison’s Lumber Reporter

  • North America Timber Update and Forecast

    The latest data and analyses for North America timber usage is contradictory enough without a constantly changing landscape subject to politics and evolving title rights. Please see Page 7 for what happened in Québec this week with First Nations resource rights. Conference Board of Canada Otherwise, the Conference Board of Canada this week released a…

  • North America Log and Lumber Markets

    A spurt of talk in the past few days about lumber market recovery / not yet recovery prompted Madison’s to do a Round Up Update for North American log and lumber data: Said the Vancouver Sun Tuesday, “The key commodity price for 1,000 board feet of western spruce, pine or fir 2X4s, as reported by…

  • Canada Housing Starts: June 2015

    Canada’s June housing starts rose more than expected from May to an 11-month high. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts rose to 202,818 in June, compared to the downwardly revised 196,981 units in May, according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation Thursday. Home Building and Permits, Canada Urban starts largely drove the…

  • 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…