-
US Construction Spending: April 2015
NAHB analysis of Census construction spending data released Monday finds that the pace of residential construction spending improved on both a monthly and year-over-year basis for April. For the month, the seasonally adjusted annual rate of single-family construction spending was US$206 billion, up 1.6 per cent from March. The April rate of multifamily construction spending…
-
US Residential Construction Spending
National Association of Home Builders analysis finds that over the last year, the pace of private single-family construction spending increased 9.7 per cent and multifamily construction spending increased 31.5 per cent For the month of February, the annual rate of single-family construction spending was US$203.9 billion, down 1.4 per cent from January. The February rate…
-
US Existing, New, & Pending Home Sales, Inventories
Completing an improved second half of 2014, existing home sales in the US increased 2.4 per cent in December, said the National Association of Realtors Monday. Existing home sales exceeded a 5 million sales pace for the sixth time in the past seven months, and were 3.5 per cent above the same period a year…
-
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…
-
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…
