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Lumber News Archives: July 2012
BC Resource Roads ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Canadian Housing Starts ; Housing Starts, Japan ; Wildfires ; Sawmill Contractor Dies Oregon Timber Drama ; BC Minister of Forests Responds ; Terrace Bay Pulp Sold ; WorkSafeBC Expands Safety Order ; City of Williams Lake Timber Supply Recommendations ; FPB Cites Vancouver Island Firms ;…
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US Home Asking Prices
Asking prices for US homes were up 10 per cent year-over-year in March, said Trulia Thursday. Despite declining investor purchases and more inventory coming onto the market, asking home prices continued to rise at the start of the spring housing season. Month-over-month, asking prices rose 1.2 per cent nationally in March 2014, seasonally adjusted. Quarter-over-quarter,…
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Canada Building Permits
Canadian municipalities issued building permits worth $6.1 billion in February, down 11.6 per cent from January, said Statistics Canada Tuesday. This decrease followed an 8.1 per cent gain the previous month and was mainly driven by lower construction intentions for multi-family dwellings in all provinces. Construction intentions for residential buildings declined 21.0% to $3.6 billion,…
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Global Lumber Trade
There have been some fascinating changes in the movement of hardwood lumber globally this year, partially due to EUTR restrictions on illegally harvested timber imports having come into effect in Europe a year ago. This week data became available for North American softwood lumber exports. Also that for imports of softwood lumber into consuming regions,…
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Japan Housing Starts
February housing starts in Japan totalled 69,689 units, a 1 per cent increase over February last year and a consecutive 18-month improvement, said the Japan Lumber Reports Friday. Seasonally-adjusted starts were 919,000 units, a 6 per cent decrease over January. Housing Starts, Japan Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation commented that the stable economic…
