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The December Household Spending Survey, published by the New York Federal Reserve Bank, showed a modest increase in household spending over the past four months, and a surge in the median expectation for year-ahead household spending to highest level since August 2015.
Alpine’s latest eShop Plant Management Software simplifies the user experience for shop employees and managers alike, while collecting robust production data to maximize operational decision-making.
Last fall’s M&A feeding frenzy made more than a few independents nervous.
The lumber market could be entering a buyer’s market, Justin Binning and Ken Timmins shared on the Structural Building Components Association’s (SBCA) most recent Lumber Connection podcast.
Despite high buyer traffic and strong demand, builder sentiment fell in March as rising lumber and other material prices pushed builder confidence lower.
Housing production continue to slow in February off strong levels as rising lumber and other material prices continue to affect the housing industry.
Lennar has announced the formation of the Upward America Venture, a platform that will acquire single-family homes for rent in high-growth markets across the United States.
It’s impossible to miss today’s white-hot LBM M&A market.
The residential real-estate market is on its biggest tear since 2006, just before the housing bubble burst and set off a global recession.
Listening to Toll Brothers’ first quarter earnings call earlier this year, I was struck by a comment CEO Doug Yearley made during the question-and-answer session.
Despite the many challenges presented by the pandemic, wood products manufacturers are responding to the high demand by producing wood products at levels not seen since before the Great Recession.
Black Buffalo, a global provider of large scale, building-grade printers and proprietary cement-based ink, has worked with the International Code Council Evaluation Service to expand criteria in the ICC-ES AC509 – 3D Automated Construction Technology for 3D Concrete Walls report from single- to multi-story building.
Prices are surging for the raw materials used to build American homes.
Construction input prices rose 2.1% in February, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data.
Over the first month of 2021, the total number of single-family permits issued year-to-date (YTD) nationwide reached 83,921.