Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
Lumber Market Report - November 2022
A lackluster pace was prevalent throughout the market in October as sales continued to sag, spurring mills and traders to work in earnest to sell their inventory and hasten a reversal of the market.
Lumber Market Report - October 2022
As October is typically the start of the fall building season (contractors get their projects weathertight before inclement weather hits), most are anticipating a pop in business and for prices to moderately climb as we progress through the month.
Lumber Market Report - September 2022
Hear from Purchasing Manager, Paul Rogers, with an update on the lumber market for September.
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
Larry King, American Television and Radio Host
Lumber Market Report - August 2022
Hear from Purchasing Manager, Paul Rogers, with an update on the lumber market. Steady business and thinning reserves across lumber supply lines halted the falling market and set it back on an upward trajectory, but thankfully only to a small degree.
Lumber Market Report - July 2022
Hear from Paul Rogers with his thoughts on how the weight of economic uncertainty, escalating fuel prices, increasing borrowing costs, and stock market retraction are effecting the current state of the lumber market.
Lumber Market Update - June 2022
Despite solid sales and broad optimism that the market would reignite in May, it continued to waffle, with spates of increases across lumber and plywood balanced out by equal reductions. The end result was a market that flat-lined for a stretch.