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May 6, 2025

Lumber prices fall as uncertainty settles

Lumber futures fell below $550 per thousand board feet, hovering at yearly lows as excess supply from winter restocking collided with a 14.2% drop in U.S. single-family housing starts to an annualized 940,000 units in March, pushing new-home inventories to nearly eight months of supply.

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