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This is the second in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Each quarter when updating our Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) forecast models, we revisit prior projections and review applied research on business and economic forecasting. Forisk’s Housing Starts Outlook combines independent forecasts from professionals in the housing industry.... https://forisk.com//u-s-housing-starts-outlook-q2-2021-up/

Brooks Mendell of Forisk provides some insights in the recent Bloomberg News article, "Lumber Frenzy Drives Up Home Prices as Suppliers Can’t Keep Up" https://www.bloomberg.com//lumber-frenzy-drives-up-home-pr

This post is the first in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Featured research in the next issue will focus on forest carbon. Investor and author Benjamin Graham, an early teacher to Warren Buffett, introduced the concept of Mr. Market in his 1949 book... https://forisk.com//2/04/14/forest-carbon-meets-mr-market/

For Immediate Release: Wood Fiber Pricing Highlighted Forest Industry Sentiment and Struggles in Early 2021 https://forisk.com//20210407-Press-Release-Forisk-Wood-Fib

The physical facts of nature help us, at times, reconcile contradictions in the marketplace. Consider the disparity between sky-scraping softwood lumber prices and the pedestrian prices received by forestland owners in the U.S. South for their logs. I hear from folks in forestry who are convinced that the failure of timber prices to rise during this frenzied lumber market is evidence that something is going on, that Canadian firms infiltrated the South, that the lumber industry is over consolidated. While multiple reasons may help explain the dynamics of timber prices by local market, the bottom line remains that, ... https://forisk.com/blog/2021//07/why-are-timber-prices-low/