Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
Lumber Update – June 2020
Cautious optimism marks the tone of the lumber market as framing sales slowly return to an industry that has been living hand-to-mouth since the Covid-19 crisis began. Over the past few months, buyers’ angst grew in proportion to their...
Lumber Update – May 2020
At a time which historically has been one of our busiest months of the year for construction, our industry is collectively putting all energy towards surviving, in terms of business and health, as we navigate our way through the COVID-19...
Lumber Update – April 2020
Since our last report, a few situations developed that disrupted supply and sent the lumber market at once soaring and back again. In Canada, railway blockades set up by members of the First Nation Tribe had a profound effect on the sale...
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John Wooden, American basketball player and head coach at UCLA
Lumber Update – March 2020
The mild winter we’ve had has kept sales steady and strong, with dealers and wholesalers scrambling daily to get lumber in as fast as it was going out. This level of activity at the peak of the winter months was certainly welcome, but also...
Lumber Market Update – February 2020
The market has been a tough read of late, as the season has been full of fits and starts. Overall, business has been good, but whatever activity that was realized (and believed to have had any sustainability) soon fizzled out, making many...
Lumber Update – January 2020
Despite interruptions from wintry weather and the holidays, December lumber sales were, on the whole, very good. With the heavy snowfall that came earlier in the month, Eastern mills struggled to load and deliver what they had on the...