Madison’s Lumber Prices Index remained steady at $434 per thousand board feet for the week ending December 12, unchanged from ...

A national building industry group has appealed to President Joe Biden as the price of lumber skyrockets, threatening to slow down construction projects across the country and increase the price of ...

Canadian sawmills supply a lot of the lumber that is used to build U.S. houses. (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg News) One of the biggest consequences of a tariff on imports from Canada would be pricier ...

A key index of homebuilder confidence has been negative for 16 straight months. The National Association of Home Builders declined to provide comment, but has said that lumber “prices must fall for ...

Lumber prices, which shed more than 20% in August, have continued to fall to start September, hitting their lowest price this year thanks to a glut of wood that was piled up ahead of a big increase in ...

Although ENR’s indexes measure the costs of non-residential buildings, the housing market has had a major impact on index movement. The ENR 20-city average yearly price for steel rose 11.2% by the end ...

Wood prices have plunged 23% since early August and lumber mills are cutting back due to a building slump and uncertainty over tariffs, in a signal of potential problems in the U.S. economy, The Wall ...

The twin-peaked lumber bubble of 2021 and 2022 that once drove home building costs through the roof and exacerbated inflation is now nothing more than a memory. Spot lumber prices have plummeted 75% ...

Lumber futures rose to the highest in more than two and a half years after President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into shipments of the commodity into the US. Trump on Saturday asked the ...

Can rising lumber prices create a logjam in the U.S. housing recovery? Dec. 17, 2012 — -- With lumber prices on the rise, analysts are watching whether the commodity could cause a logjam in the ...