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US New Home Sales: August 2017
CoreLogic Tuesday released its CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) and HPI Forecast for August 2017, which shows US home prices are up strongly both year over year and month over month. Home prices nationally increased year over year by 6.9 per cent from August 2016 to August 2017, and on a month-over-month basis, home prices…
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US Construction Spending: August 2017
Overall construction spending in the US during August 2017 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,218.3 billion, 0.5 per cent above the revised July estimate of US$1,212.3 billion, according to the Census Bureau Monday. NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending data shows that total private residential construction spending stood at a seasonally…
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Canada Sawmill Production: July 2017
Lumber production in Canada declined 9.1 per cent from June to July 2017, with Canadian sawmills producing 5,201 thousand cubic metres of lumber, said Statistics Canada Tuesday. Production was 1.9 per cent lower than in July 2016. Sawmills shipped 5,459 thousand cubic metres of lumber in July, down 5.2 per cent from June and 0.8…
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Canada State-of-the-Forests Report: 2017
This year Canada celebrates 150 years as a forest nation. Through The State of Canada’s Forests Annual Report, Natural Resources Canada provides the only national snapshot of Canada’s forests and forest industry. The federal agency has been tracking Canada’s journey towards sustainable forest management for 27 years. Read about the history of Canada’s forest sector…
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North America Lumber Market Update: 3Q 2017
As negotiations toward a Canada-US softwood lumber agreement furiously go on, different perspectives and data sets speak to the situation with Canadian softwood lumber exports into USA. Since the beginning of September there have been hearings in Washington, DC, for various sides — mostly US domestic interests — to table comments and submit on the…
