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US Mortgage Foreclosures Lowest Since 2006
The number of US properties in the process of being foreclosed upon dropped last year to its lowest level since 2006, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said Thursday. In total, 1,117,426 properties were at some stage of foreclosure proceedings in 2014, down 18 per cent from 2013 and off 61 per cent from the peak…
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Softwood Lumber Board Seeks Candidates
The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) seeks nominations of softwood lumber manufacturers and importers interested in candidacy for Board seats coming open in January 2016. The deadline for nominations is March 6th 2015. The 19-member board will hold elections to fill six seats for members whose terms expire on Dec. 31, 2015. Domestic manufacturers will fill…
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Madison’s Weekly Lumber Prices Updated
Disinterested buyers and softening demand sent most dimension lumber and some panel products’ prices down slightly last week. The weak Canadian dollar brought motivated construction framing lumber sellers from Canada into US markets. Volumes sold were stable, if slightly down, over the end of last year. Canadian softwood lumber production, sales, and export VOLUMES January…
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Canada Lumber Production by Sawmills: Oct 2014
October 2014 Lumber production by sawmills increased 3 per cent from September to 5,312.7 thousand cubic metres in October, said Statistics Canada Monday. Compared with October 2013, lumber production decreased 0.5 per cent. Sawmills shipped 5,328.5 thousand cubic metres of lumber in October, an increase of 6.2 per cent from September.
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It’s Getting Crowded in Here…
Your weekly Madison’s Lumber Reporter is bursting at the seams! Over the next few weeks there will be new content added, mostly taken from the data sets we have been working for the quarterly Forest Pulse. (sample download here: http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mclr010915.pdf ) There will be additional pages added to the newsletter make room for this important…
