Building Materials Lumber Prices Turn Negative for First Time This Year After two months of continuous price drops, lumber costs are now down 0.6% from 2021’s starting price. Lumber futures for September dropped...
Construction Why Do Builders Continue to Use Lumber? Despite skyrocketing prices and supply shortages, few home builders are willing to use construction methods other than traditional wood...
Building Materials Who Can Shorten the Supply Chain for Home Building? Current supply-chain challenges serve to reveal new possibilities for supplying materials for new-home construction
Building Materials What’s With the Lumber Price Disconnect? If lumber futures and mill prices are declining by double digit percentages, why not the street prices builders are paying?
Building Materials How Are Builders Countering Rising Costs and Shortages? Few builders have switched away from traditional wood framing
Construction Most Builders Raise Prices, Pre-Order Materials to Combat Shortages Faced with widespread shortages and rising material costs, home builders have reacted in an array of ways to combat difficult supply chain...
Building Materials Lumber V: The Latest in a Decades-Long Dispute Over Lumber Despite a fall in lumber prices, costs are more than double pre-pandemic levels, but there remains a disagreement on why prices are so high...
Construction Housing Boom Leaves Small Contractors Behind Though the housing market faces intense demand, smaller contractors are not reaping the benefits that production builders are. With supply...
Economics Federal Reserve Chair Says the Economy’s Future Lies in Lumber Lumber’s twists and turns resulting from the pandemic are Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell’s guide to the future of the U.S. economy....
Building Materials Lumber Prices Finally Cool as Demand Relaxes The demand for lumber from builders, remodelers, and at-home DIYers helped drive prices up to $1,600 per thousand board feet, but recent...