Author: Madison’s Lumber Reporter

  • US Real Estate

    A report April 11 from Zelman & Associates said it the analyst firm now expected a 5 per cent drop in sales of previously owned homes in America for 2014, to a seasonally adjusted annual level of 4.8 million units. At the start of this year, the firm had forecast nearly a 6 per cent…

  • Lumber News Archives: November 2013

      Timberland Management: Governments ; The Canadian lumber industry : 2012 ; Lumber Prices in China ; Lumber Yard Fatality ; Canada, US Trade Balance ; Canada’s Manufacturing Survey ; Housing Affordability, US ; Associated Hardwoods Builds Sawmill ;Trade Agreements and Tarriffs ; USDA to Fund Biomass Fuel Research ; Housing Starts, Canada ; Japan…

  • Lumber News Archives: December 2013

    Industrial Biomaterials Programs ; Logging Truck Accidents ; Housing Starts, Canada ; US Home Foreclosures, FHA Budget Shortfall US Construction, Housing ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; State of Canada’s Forests Report 2013 ; Japan Housing Starts ; Sawmill Fire Quickly Contained ; Canada Building Permits ; Trade Surplus, Canada EUTR Update ; Madison’s Announces .…

  • Lumber News Archives: Oct 2013

    Illegal Timber Harvesting ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; CN Rail Labour Contract Talks Stall ; UK Timber Shortage ; US Builder Confidence : October 2013 ; Oregon’s Forestry Employment ; Large Timberland Sale Politics and Lumber Exports ; Labour Negotiations Move to Southern Interior ; Canada Housing Starts ; Housing Starts, Japan ; 2013 US…

  • Lumber News Archives: August 2013

    BC Lumber Exports to India ; Canadian Housing Starts ; North American Hardwood Lumber Exports ; HMI Index Soars in 2Q ; Wildfires US Forest Service “Healthy Forests Act ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Short-Term Timber Forecast : Japan; 2Q Financial Results ; US Pending Home Sales, Prices Residential and Non-Residential Construction and Spending ;…