
StatisticsCount Newsletter
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17.05.22: Future market dynamics and potential impacts on Australian timber imports – interim report released
On current trajectories, Australia faces the prospect of being consistently unable to meet demand for new housing, because of a persistent and growing gap between demand and supply of sawn sof... Read More -
17.05.22: Woodchip exports close in on 6 million dry tonnes – Softwood exports at record levels
The following update has been supplied by IndustryEdge from its online platform, Wood Market Edge online. All the data used and referred to here is available for download by IndustryEdge subsc... Read More -
17.05.22: Local softwood prices continue to rise, but growth slows
Local Structural sawn softwood prices strengthened in the March quarter, rising an average 2.6% compared to the December quarter, but up a massive 33.5% compared to the March quarter o... Read More -
17.05.22: Sawnwood imports and consumption hit new records in March
The following update has been supplied by IndustryEdge from its online platform, Wood Market Edge online. All the data used and referred to here is available for download by IndustryEdge subsc... Read More -
17.05.22: Local softwood sales hover at peak capacity
Sales of locally produced sawn softwood totalled 3.134 million m3 year-ended March 2022, very close to the theoretical capacity of around 3.2 million m3 per annum. In March, monthly sa... Read More -
17.05.22: Housing credit growth confirms the pipeline
Housing loan values lifted 1.6% in March to reach $33.28 billion, up 11.1% on the prior year. The solid position of housing loans confirms the pipeline of work, with approvals typically prec... Read More -
17.05.22: Housing approvals softening as expected – houses tracking best
Largely as expected, Australia’s dwelling approvals continued to soften in March. The month-on-month decline for the month was a large 18.5%, although approvals of free-standing houses decli... Read More -
17.05.22: Massive pipeline of building work means houses taking longer to build
Latest data confirms the size of the Australian building pipeline at the end of 2021, and some unpublished data demonstrates house completion times have pushed out as a result. Houses ... Read More -
17.05.22: Inflation, interest rates and wages – an object lesson on why ‘it’s the economy, stupid’
Australia’s annual inflation rate rocketed to an annualised 5.1% year-ended March 2022, prompting an inevitable interest rate move of 0.25% just weeks later. Meantime, in the midst of the elec... Read More -
03.03.22: Woodchip exports up 13.8% in 2021
While log exports continue to be problematic, woodchip exports rose significantly in 2021, to reach 5.343 million bone dried metric tonnes (bdmt). The 13.8% rise in total exports was driven ... Read More