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This blog represents our third update on timberland sales year-to-date. In Q1, we reported that sales were picking up, perhaps pulling us above 2020’s ten-year low. Activity dipped slightly in Q2, down from a hot first quarter. By the midpoint more…
This post highlights featured research from the Q3 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Each year we collect data on silviculture practices of large landowners and managers, alternating annually more…
Earlier this year, we reported on the status of U.S timberland transactions year-to-date in 2021. Based on the current trend of timberland transaction activity at the time, the forecast for 2021 seemed promising. How has this prediction held up in more…
Forest carbon can affect timberland values to the extent that robust markets for carbon support reliable cash flows to investors. With wood, the economic value of trees derives from the ability of manufacturers to turn logs into value added products more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s 2021 North American Timberland Owner & Manager List and the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly. This past year, Forisk marked its sixteenth year of tracking timberland transactions and aggregating timberland owner data. Currently, this tracking includes 323 more…
This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts and featured research on forest carbon. Markets facilitate trade between buyers and sellers; they assign value more…
This post is the first in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Featured research in the next issue will focus on forest carbon. Investor more…
Any way you slice it, 2020 was a slow year for large timberland transactions. Forisk’s tracking recorded approximately 1.6 million acres of completed large timberland transactions in 2020. Over the past decade, from 2010 through 2019, the median volume of more…
This post includes themes addressed in our Applied Forest Finance course. Behavioral finance teaches us that we are prone to both emotional error and brilliant insight, and sometimes we confuse the two. For this reason, when evaluating investments, we value clear more…
This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q1 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). It includes topics that will also be addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on March 4th, 2021. When we feel uncertain about more…