Higher lumber costs hammer builders

Rising lumber costs jack up housing prices

Published: April 30, 2010
Tags: Bliffert, Bliffert Lumber and Fuel, Brookstone Homes, lumber prices, oriented strand board, OSB, Random Lengths Publications, Thistle, Tim O'Brien Homes

By Sean Ryan The price of lumber products has doubled in Wisconsin over the past two months, pushing against builders’ efforts to rein in housing prices. “I don’t like it,” said Scott Thistle, president of Brookstone Homes Inc., Oconomowoc. “It definitely forces the price of a house to go up. There’s no doubt about it. [...]

Higher lumber costs hammer builders

Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: Associated General Contractors of America, lumber prices, National Association of Home Builders, Random Lengths, Rottlund Homes
Comments: 1

By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Rising lumber prices are putting the wood to homebuilders who are still smarting from the industry’s worst downturn in decades. Lumber costs hit a four-year high in February, although prices have been coming back to earth in recent weeks, according to the National Association of Home Builders. [...]

Rising lumber costs jack up housing prices

Higher lumber costs hammer builders

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