Category Archive Lumber and Commodity Reports
March 2022 Lumber & Commodity Report
March 15th, 2022By Don Magruder The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) is a weighted index that we have been charting since 2000, and it includes a mix of the most popular wood items sold in Central Florida. The Index for March jumped 14.0 percent to $1,358.45 per thousand which is on top of a 17.5 […]
February 2022 Lumber & Commodity Report
February 15th, 2022by Don Magruder The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) is a weighted index that we have been charting since 2000, and it includes a mix of the most popular wood items sold in Central Florida. The Index for February jumped 17.5 percent to $1013.61 with every item increasing in price but two. The […]
January 2022 Lumber & Commodity Report
January 18th, 2022By Don Magruder The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) for January soared a whopping 39.3 percent to $1013.61 per thousand since mid-December as lumber and sheathing prices rose unabated with heavy demand, tightening supply, supply chain disruptions, continued issues with trucking shortages, and much higher costs. No items decreased in price and wide-width […]
October 2021 Lumber & Commodities Report
October 18th, 2021The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) for October 2021 increased for the second straight month as the August market bottoms have long since been touched. Over the last 30 days, the Index soared a whopping 18.7 percent to $557.96 per thousand as no item on the Index declined in price. Most experts believed the […]
July 2021 Lumber and Commodity Report
July 15th, 2021The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) for July 2021 dropped 24.2 percent to $956.97 per thousand as lumber, plywood, and sheathing made significant retreats since mid-June. The Wood Index is a weighted index of wood commodity products used in Central Florida and it more accurately defines price variations for a project each […]
May 2021 Lumber and Commodity Report
May 20th, 2021The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) for May 2021 jumped 20.3 percent to $1,405.25 per thousand, as demand for wood products and trucking woes gave pricing no room to drop. Supply and availability of building products in the supply chain, as well as a tight labor force, are keeping demand from exploding. Builders […]
March 2021 Lumber and Commodity Report
March 17th, 2021The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) for March 2021 increased 9.6 percent to $1,023.27 per thousand, which is a record high. No wood commodity decreased in price on the Index with CDX Pine Plywood and wide-width Pine 2×12 leading the advancers. While the market increases have subsided in veracity lately, there has been […]
February 2021 Lumber and Commodity Report
February 16th, 2021The RoMac Building Supply Wood Commodity Index (Index) for February 2021 jumped 8.7 percent adding almost $75 per thousand. High single-digit increases were common in both lumber and sheathings as the markets tried to shake the grip of the winter weather. If anything, pricing over this time period should have dropped or flattened because of […]