眾所周知,房屋翻新需要的時間和成本,總要比業主的預期多一倍。但現在又有了新的變化:你還要在木料上多花一筆錢。
今年春天,各州執行封鎖令,全美鋸木廠停工,導致加利福尼亞的紅木和南方的黃松無人砍伐,使市場上出現了木材供應不足的情況。與此同時,從家得寶(Home Depot)和勞氏公司(Lowe’s)的營收數據可以看出,新冠疫情期間的房屋翻新和自我改造項目大幅增加,房屋建設市場也出現反彈,這些趨勢都增加了對木材的需求。
供應減少和需求增加,必然意味著價格暴漲:根據Random Lengths向《財富》雜志提供的數據,木材價格年比上漲了134%。
Fastmarkets RISI的高級經濟學家達斯廷?賈爾伯特告訴《財富》雜志:“木材嚴重短缺……但需求旺盛并且持續增長。未來一兩個月,木材價格會繼續上漲?!?/p>
賈爾伯特表示,在疫情之初,木材行業普遍預測房地產市場會暴跌甚至崩潰。但在今年夏季,房地產和新房建設市場快速反彈:7月,新房銷售創下自2006年以來的最高水平,年同比增長36%,而在房屋建設市場,住宅建設開工數增加了22.6%。雖然美國失業率高達兩位數,但低利率、首次購房的千禧一代家庭和標普500指數反彈50%這些因素,促成了房地產市場的火熱。
賈爾伯特稱,約40%的木材被用于住房維修和改造。在疫情期間,美國人充分利用居家隔離的時間,使住房DIY改造項目大增。
美國房屋建筑商協會(National Association of Home Builders)提供給《財富》雜志的計算結果顯示,木材價格上漲134%,意味著新房建設成本增加約14,000美元。
該協會的首席經濟學家羅伯特?迪茨告訴《財富》雜志,大部分成本將從建筑商轉嫁給消費者。美國人口普查局(U.S. Census Bureau)的數據顯示,7月美國新房銷售中位價格為330,600美元,比2019年7月上漲了22,300美元。迪茨補充說,房價每上漲1,000美元,將有約15萬個美國家庭被擠出市場。
木材短缺能否在短期內結束?Fastmarkets RISI的賈爾伯特表示,木材供應受到的影響會持續幾個月,但在年底之前可能會開始趨于平穩。
美國與加拿大之間的貿易爭端也影響了木材供應。2017年,特朗普政府對大部分加拿大木材征收20%的關稅。8月31日,世界貿易組織(World Trade Organization)站在了加拿大一邊,裁定加拿大政府沒有對木材生產提供不當補貼,推翻了白宮加征關稅的理由。(財富中文網)
譯者:Biz
眾所周知,房屋翻新需要的時間和成本,總要比業主的預期多一倍。但現在又有了新的變化:你還要在木料上多花一筆錢。
今年春天,各州執行封鎖令,全美鋸木廠停工,導致加利福尼亞的紅木和南方的黃松無人砍伐,使市場上出現了木材供應不足的情況。與此同時,從家得寶(Home Depot)和勞氏公司(Lowe’s)的營收數據可以看出,新冠疫情期間的房屋翻新和自我改造項目大幅增加,房屋建設市場也出現反彈,這些趨勢都增加了對木材的需求。
供應減少和需求增加,必然意味著價格暴漲:根據Random Lengths向《財富》雜志提供的數據,木材價格年比上漲了134%。
Fastmarkets RISI的高級經濟學家達斯廷?賈爾伯特告訴《財富》雜志:“木材嚴重短缺……但需求旺盛并且持續增長。未來一兩個月,木材價格會繼續上漲。”
賈爾伯特表示,在疫情之初,木材行業普遍預測房地產市場會暴跌甚至崩潰。但在今年夏季,房地產和新房建設市場快速反彈:7月,新房銷售創下自2006年以來的最高水平,年同比增長36%,而在房屋建設市場,住宅建設開工數增加了22.6%。雖然美國失業率高達兩位數,但低利率、首次購房的千禧一代家庭和標普500指數反彈50%這些因素,促成了房地產市場的火熱。
賈爾伯特稱,約40%的木材被用于住房維修和改造。在疫情期間,美國人充分利用居家隔離的時間,使住房DIY改造項目大增。
美國房屋建筑商協會(National Association of Home Builders)提供給《財富》雜志的計算結果顯示,木材價格上漲134%,意味著新房建設成本增加約14,000美元。
該協會的首席經濟學家羅伯特?迪茨告訴《財富》雜志,大部分成本將從建筑商轉嫁給消費者。美國人口普查局(U.S. Census Bureau)的數據顯示,7月美國新房銷售中位價格為330,600美元,比2019年7月上漲了22,300美元。迪茨補充說,房價每上漲1,000美元,將有約15萬個美國家庭被擠出市場。
木材短缺能否在短期內結束?Fastmarkets RISI的賈爾伯特表示,木材供應受到的影響會持續幾個月,但在年底之前可能會開始趨于平穩。
美國與加拿大之間的貿易爭端也影響了木材供應。2017年,特朗普政府對大部分加拿大木材征收20%的關稅。8月31日,世界貿易組織(World Trade Organization)站在了加拿大一邊,裁定加拿大政府沒有對木材生產提供不當補貼,推翻了白宮加征關稅的理由。(財富中文網)
譯者:Biz
Renovations already have the reputation of taking twice the time and costing twice as much as homeowners expect. Now there’s a new twist: Getting wood is going to cost you extra, too.
State lockdowns in the spring caused sawmills across the nation to close, leaving California redwoods and Southern yellow pine uncut and reducing lumber on the market. At the same time a surge in home renovations and do-it-yourself home projects during the pandemic—just look at the earnings of Home Depot and Lowe’s—and rebounding home construction have increased the demand for timber.
Reduced supply plus increased demand is the formula for soaring prices: The price of lumber has soared 134% year over year, according to figures provided by Random Lengths to Fortune.
“This is a severe lumber shortage…Demand is hot and continues to be strong. In the next month or two it’s going to continue to be elevated,” Dustin Jalbert, senior economist at Fastmarkets RISI, told Fortune.
At the onset of the pandemic, Jalbert says, it was largely assumed in the industry that housing would slump or crash. But housing and new home construction has surged back this summer: Sales of new homes hit their highest levels since 2006 in July, jumping 36% year over year, and home construction—housing starts—climbed 22.6% in July. A combination of lower interest rates, an influx of first-time millennial home buyers, and a 50% rebound in the S&P 500 has combined to create a hot housing market despite a double-digit unemployment rate.
Around 40% of all lumber goes toward repairing and remodeling homes, Jalbert says. During the pandemic, DIY projects exploded as Americans took advantage of their time cooped up at home.
And that 134% increase in lumber prices has added around $14,000 to the cost of building a new home, according to a calculation by the National Association of Home Builders provided to Fortune.
Most of that cost is getting passed from the builder to the consumer, Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, told Fortune. The median price tag for new homes sold in July was $330,600, up $22,300 from July 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. For every $1,000 increase in home price, around 150,000 U.S. families get priced out, Dietz adds.
Will the shortage let up anytime soon? Jalbert at Fastmarkets RISI says lumber supplies will be encumbered for months, but could begin to level off by the end of the year.
And trade disputes between the U.S. and Canada are also playing a role. In 2017, the Trump administration imposed 20% tariffs on most Canadian lumber. On August 31, the World Trade Organization sided with Canada, ruling that Canadians weren’t improperly subsidizing lumber production—as the White House argued when it imposed the tariffs.