Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
Lumber Update – October 2020
With what can only be considered an exhausting, frustrating, and completely off-the-hook rally, the lumber, plywood, and pressure treated markets finally appear to be relaxing. Cracks first appeared in early September, when the futures...
Market Update 2020
2020 has been full of uncertainty and a real challenge for businesses, to say the very least. But for those of us in the building industry, we have had some cause for celebration over the last several months. Being deemed an essential...
Lumber Updates – September 2020
The summer of 2020 will be one that won’t be forgotten too soon as unprecedented outages of material and record price increases turned the market on its head. Construction surged across all sectors and a perfect storm of...
“We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.”
Charles F. Kettering
Market Sense
Markets rise and fall on consumer and seller confidence. Just 4 months ago, consumer confidence was in the tank due to the fear and unknown of COVID-19. Producers and sellers prepared for the worst and assumed that demand...
Lumber Update – August 2020
Another month forward in 2020 and another month of turbulent but booming sales in the lumber market. Building material supply centers have remained busy throughout the pandemic, and even though the general consensus was that sales would...
Lumber Update – July 2020
With each passing day, a clearer focus is developing upon the state of our economy and the future of the lumber market, and it’s an encouraging one. After the initial re-openings from the Covid-19 stay-at-home orders, our crawl became a...