Australia’s dwelling approvals totaled 228,671 dwellings for the year-ended December 2015. Although slipping 0.8% from their all time peak of 230,475 separate approvals for the year-end…

Australia’s headline inflation rate, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.7% on an annualised basis in 2015. This was exactly the same as the annual rate measured in December 2014, essentia…

The value of imports of Builder’s Joinery rose very strongly in 2015, reaching AUD455M as all of the sub-grades experienced strong growth in import value. The major ‘posts and beams’ grade, w…

The volume of sawn softwood imports has begun to decline, with imports for December falling to 37,9000 m3, their lowest monthly volume since December 2012. Moreover, imports were 31.8% lowe…

Baltic region log prices have slumped as much as 24% over the course of 2015, with the trend line for all logs, measured in US Dollars, trending down after rising through much of 2013 and 2014. Th…

Recent reporting from the International Wood Markets Group based in Vancouver, Canada shows that Southern Hemisphere sawmilling costs are the highest in the world. The report shows that wi…