Lumber prices go up during pandemic. Skip to content. NOWCAST WDSU News at 6am Saturday. ... They said before the pandemic, cedar wood was $4.97 for a 6-foot board, today, it's $5.39.

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Soaring lumber prices add $36,000 to the cost of a new home; ... About 70% of the softwood lumber used in Colorado home building, like pine, fir and cedar, comes from Canada.

Cedar and cypress drop 9.6% and 7.1% year on year; spruce studs rise 1.4% month on month yet remain below May 2024.

“Conversely, today, the price for a thousand board feet of lumber hit a high of $1,300 when only a year ago it was about $328,” he said. “In 2009 it was just $163. Nothing is forever.

Spot market prices reached $686.72 per thousand board-feet in intraday trading on Monday, March 24, according to Trading Economics. By the end of March 26, the price was down to $671.09.

Lumber prices have dropped by more than 60% so far this year, but don’t count on a recovery soon. Higher interest rates and inflation will continue to slow demand for single-family homes.

A big one-- the price of lumber. ”A 2x4, a very basic piece of wood, has started to come down to what I would call normal prices now after having been up about 25% earlier in the year.

Lumber is cheap, but building or renovating a home isn’t. The price of lumber has plummeted since early in the pandemic, but other building materials are up 30% from 2019.

Lumber prices soared from around $300 per 1,000 board feet of lumber in the weeks before the pandemic hit in 2020 to more than $1,600 in the spring of 2021.

Lumber futures are trading at $588 per thousand board feet, which is around where they began the week. Spot prices two-by-fours were also little changed this week, according to Random Lengths ...