Home builders have become a victim of their own success this fall. The fast pace of home construction in recent months has helped to push up the wholesale price of plywood and other panel lumber used ...

Plywood prices skyrocketed in the past two weeks, with the increased cost being passed on to new homebuyers and those remodeling their homes. Several local building suppliers blame the price increase ...

TORONTO, April 9 – Lumber and plywood prices have shot up so rapidly in recent months that they are tearing the profit out of home construction for some builders and threatening to dent the booming ...

While lumber prices nationally have soared in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the cost of plywood — key in the construction of new homes — is rising, but has yet to reach last year’s record price ...

Americans are coughing up $4,600 more on average to buy their dream home than six months ago — thanks to a record run-up in prices for a once-cheap plywood substitute. Prices are on a tear for those ...