With lumber prices down but new home costs up, the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Lumber Coalition disagree over the root cause of the U.S. housing market slump.

This model estimates that the Framing Lumber Composite will decrease by an additional $1 to $437 in the coming week. Similarly, the OSB Composite is forecasted to decline by $5 to $277 next week ...

Framing lumber constitutes roughly 15 per cent or more of the cost of building new housing. Isolating that cost and reducing it could help make new homes more affordable.

Framing continues in a big way with the install of our ridge beam. Alex works with the Amish crew to get things really moving on the second floor and roof framing!

A combination of factors has driven lumber prices to their highest levels since the Covid pandemic. In recent weeks, spot market prices for framing lumber were up 14.9% yearly. Prices have been rising ...

Lumber futures were up 4.6% week-over-week, or 11% year-over-year. That was also up 5.6% month-over-month. Most of the price growth in 2024 was in the 2x10 market.

"Framing lumber for houses — 2-by-4 and 2-by-6, in this market — is almost all Canadian," Bliffert said. Bliffert said with a 25 percent tariff, the cost of the lumber to build an average ...

Canada provided $28 billion of lumber to the United States in 2021 — the most recent year statistics were available from the U.S. International Trade Commission — or nearly half of all U.S ...

It's still too early to know how much lumber will be needed to rebuild what has been destroyed by the Southern California fires, Kuta said, adding that the North American lumber market is still in ...

The Lofts at Lumber Square is a 60-unit apartment complex coming to the corner of Emmet and Fulton streets in Petoskey, at the site of the former Hankey lumber yard.