Category: Lumber News

  • US Housing Inventory: 1Q 2017

    The US housing market has again moved toward greater disconnect between supply and demand, according to a Trulia report released Thursday. US home inventory has tumbled to a new low after the eighth straight quarter of decline as supply can not keep up with demand. The drop in availability is being felt most acutely by…

  • US House Prices, Sales: January and February 2017

    House prices in the United States remained flat in January, the first time in more than three years that they have not climbed, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency monthly House Price Index Friday. As well, new US single-family home sales jumped to a seven-month high in February, suggesting the housing market recovery was…

  • US Condominium Absorptions: 3Q 2016

    In 3Q 2016, condominium completions in the US rose considerably to 6,100, which is 2,800 units more than 2Q 2016 and 1,800 higher than completions in 3Q 2015, said the US Census Bureau, in collaboration with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Tuesday. The condominium absorption rate also posted an increase to 74…

  • Softwood Lumber and NAFTA

    It’s looking increasingly like NAFTA is not going to get just “tweaked”, according to the latest meetings of new USTR appointee Robert Lighthizer, who formerly worked for Ronald Reagan. Lighthizer told his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that softwood is “at the top of the list,” said the Globe and Mail March 14. He said he…

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