Tag: RealEstate

  • Softwood Lumber Prices Fall More Slowly or Remain Steady

    In contrast to the sharp plummets of recent weeks, most North American construction framing dimension softwood lumber prices either remained steady or dropped by smaller increments last week as distributors had decent demand from end-users. Supply remained limited to tight, and sawmills held firm on price lists from the previous week as their order files…

  • Softwood Lumber Prices Fall More Slowly or Remain Steady

    MADISON’S SOFTWOOD LUMBER MARKET WEEKLY COMMENT: Key comment: “Prices of most solid wood products stabilized last week.” Prices updated April 22, 2020 (CLICK TABLE TO ENLARGE)

  • Softwood Lumber Prices Apr 2020 & US Housing Starts March 2020

    Despite drops from last month, housing starts and building permitting activity in the US are still occurring at a faster pace than one year ago. In week ending April 10, 2020, benchmark Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2×4 prices were US$310 mfbm (net FOB sawmill), unchanged from the previous week said North American weekly lumber price newsletter Madison’s…

  • Madison’s Extends Data Coverage …. New Prices Added

    Jan – April 2020 *new* North American construction framing dimension softwood lumber price data, this year added to our weekly coverage: Shortly, within a few weeks, this additional data will be available on our online tool along with all 440 individual lumber and panel commodity prices currently accessed by Madison’s subscribers. To view the historical softwood lumber…

  • Western S-P-F Softwood Lumber Prices: Apr 17, 2020

    Below is a PREVIEW of Madison’s Lumber Reporter print tomorrow (Friday) morning on benchmark construction framing dimension softwood lumber priceWestern Spruce-Pine-Fir KD #2&Btr 2×4 to 2×12 (US$ mfbm, net FOB sawmill):