Owner-built house completions were 23% lower and apartment-building completions 8% higher so far in 2026 compared with the same period last year.
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Price for MDF panels exported from Turkish dipped 2%.
Price for particleboard exported from Turkish grew only 0.7%.
Price for plywood exported from Russian to Turkey grew 5%.
Wooden starts rose 6.3% to 39,392 units; January–August starts were up 2.2% from a year earlier.
Annual growth outpaced that of Brazil overall industrial producer prices by 0.9 percentage points.
Construction activity reached 50.3 as factory-gate and input price subindexes rose.
Price for wood furniture imported to Japan grew only 0.2%.
Price for wood pellets exported from Vietnamese to Japan rose 3%.
Price for wood chips exported from Vietnamese to Japan increased slightly 0.2%.
Imports of wood pellets to Japan dipped 1.0%.
The annual gain followed a 1.6% increase in June, while inflation outpaced nominal home price growth.
Annual growth trailed that of Italian industrial producer prices.
Price for plywood imported to Japan rose 4%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to Japan gained 2%.
Price for logs exported from New Zealand to South Korea rose 5%.
Price for bleached kraft pulp imported to China dipped 1.2%.
Price for recycled pulp exported from Thailand\'s increased 5%.
Index falls $13 from one month ago with 3% decline since late August.
Profits across all industrial enterprises rose 15.7% over the same period.