by Kenzie Andrews | Sep 8, 2023 | Blog, Lumber, Madison Lumber Report
Your Weekly Construction Briefing Last week’s price of benchmark lumber commodity item WSPF 2×4 hit US$420 MFBM, close to matching that of two years ago at $439. Compared to US$624 during the same week last year. This graph shows year-over-year price trends for...
by Kenzie Andrews | Jul 6, 2023 | Around Town, Blog, Lumber, Madison Lumber Report
Your Weekly Construction Briefing Last week’s BC Ministry of Forests Product Pricing sheet is showing lumber prices increasing slightly from May’s monthly average, and still remaining 30 to 40% lower then the average annual price in 2022. This graphs show select...
by Kenzie Andrews | Oct 27, 2022 | Around Town, Blog, Lumber
Your Weekly Construction Briefing Conifex Timber has announced that it is temporarily curtailing its Mackenzie sawmill operations for two weeks starting October 11. This announcement impacts production capacity by approximately seven million board feet in the fourth...
by Kenzie Andrews | Feb 18, 2021 | Around Town, Blog, Construction, Lumber, Residential Building Construction, Residential Housing, Statistics Canada, StatsCan, Vancouver Island
Your Weekly Construction Briefing According to a February StatsCan report, prices for residential building construction increased at a faster pace in the 4th quarter (+2.9%) than in the 3rd (+2.5%) in 2020. The gain in the fourth quarter was the largest on record....