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Continuing one of the heftiest and longest running sales growth paths, domestically produced sawn softwood sales punched-out another record in the year-ended December 2016, with sales to…
Continuing one of the heftiest and longest running sales growth paths, domestically produced sawn softwood sales punched-out another record in the year-ended December 2016, with sales to…
Despite falling 0.9% from November, investor’s share of Australia’s housing loans in December 2016 still accounted for 48.7% of the total value al housing loans. The almost AUD13.2 billion…
Approvals of new dwellings seem to have come off the boil in recent months, with year-end data showing that 228,308 separate dwellings were approved in 2016, down 2.8% on 2015. But perhaps mos…
Paul Morgan, a building design student at Melbourne’s Box Hill Institute has taken out the first Dangerous Design prize of $500 cash – and is in for a chance to win the $10,000 Grand Prize or the s…
Australia’s total log exports totaled 3.918 million m3 for the year-ended November 2016, recording a 26.1% increase on the prior year. Exports for both coniferous (softwood) and broadleav…
Demonstrating the variability of global markets, prices for sawlogs in Europe fell in the September quarter, while US prices generally rose in the September and December quarters. Despite…
Reported in December, Australia recorded its first negative quarter of economic growth in almost six years, with September quarter 2016 seeing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) recorded at -0.…
Falling to 591,029 m3 for the year-ended November 2016, imports of saw softwood declined 17.2% on the prior year. The majority of the decline was booked by ‘dressed’ products, imports of whic…