Understand our 2025 lumber prices forecast

After several years of unprecedented volatility in wood products markets, 2024 experienced a more stable, albeit depressed, environment for wood products demand and prices.

At the start of a new year, our expert analysts have outlined five key predictions for the lumber market in 2025. This data story offers an insight into the numbers behind the predictions from Dustin Jalbert, senior economist, wood products, Jennifer Coskren, director of wood products and timber, and Emerson Paradee, associate economist, wood products.

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• Changes in mortgage rates as policy uncertainty eases
• How housing starts rebounding will impact wood product demand
• Insights into the Fastmarkets Repair and Remodelling Index (RRI) and our projected acceleration in 2025
• Our forecast for an advancement in US consumption of lumber, structural panels and softwood plywood and nonstructural panels
• Analysis on the fluctuating demand and capacity ratios for in the particleboard, structural panels and MDF industries

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