Unsurprisingly, given the runaway global demand for sawnwood in particular, international log prices have lifted for the most part since the onset of the global pandemic. It seems that in an…

Australia has never had more dwellings under construction than at the end of June 2021, according to the latest data. Every measure of housing activity was higher over the quarter, perhaps un…

Latest data from a long-running FWPA project demonstrates the average one and two storey detached house in Australia used 14.58 m3 of wood in 2017-18.   Numbers are all equal, but some matter…

Sales of locally produced sawn softwood products moderated year-ended September but remain effectively at peak, as sales associated with fire salvage logs reportedly came to a halt. Sales…

Compared with the September quarter of 2020, local structural timber prices were up an average 26.0% in the September quarter of 2021, latest industry data prepared by FWPA shows.   As other…

Australia’s underlying trimmed mean inflation was 2.1% for the year-ended September 2021, landing inside the RBA target band for the first time since 2015. Like the proverbial genie in the b…