Tag: US house prices

On the weekend of Nov 12 southern British Columbia, including Vancouver, was hit of epic torrential rains that can only bring to mind imaginative disaster movies. There was 200% more rain in Sept & Oct than usual. In those 2 days as much rain fell (200 mm) as does in a normal wet month. This…

As this unusual year slowly wound toward a close, there were some developments which will only add more confusion and uncertainty to the construction framing solid wood marketplace. One, which is well-known, is the looming increase — to almost double what it has been since November 2020 — of the Softwood Lumber Duty on Canadian…

As supply-chain disruptions increased costs, new U.S. home construction slowed down in October, driven by a drop in single-family projects. For October 2021, total residential starts in the US remained essentially flat from the previous month, at 1.520 million units. Continuing to improve as throughout this year, permits for future homebuilding in October were up…

After consistent — if moderate — climbs in September and October, most benchmark construction framing dimension softwood lumber prices have levelled off to match where they were one year ago, said weekly forest industry price guide Madison’s Lumber Reporter. In many ways the market dynamics are the same: constrained supply against ongoing strong demand, serious…

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