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A clustered bar chart titled "Standing Timber Price ($/ton)" compares timber prices across two regions: Eastern NC (blue bars) and Western NC (red bars) for seven different Product Classes.

North Carolina Standing Timber Prices: A Year (2025) in Review

As 2025 draws to a close, so do the year's timber markets. In North Carolina, an analysis of quarterly standing timber price data reveals a stark contrast between the Eastern and Western regional…

Bar graph showing price change for 7 forest product classes in North Carolina.

North Carolina Standing Timber Price Trends for 2024.

State-wide average prices for the four major pine product classes generally showed an upward trend from quarter to quarter in 2024, with prices in the fourth quarter being higher than in the fourth…

bar graph indicating decline in state-wide average timber prices for 7 different product classes in first quarter of 2023 when compared to first quarter 2022

Decline in First Quarter 2023 Timber Prices!

North Carolina (NC) average standing timber prices decreased across all major pine and hardwood products in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2022. Decline in prices was…

Line chart of Pine Sawtimber and Pine Pulpwood prices ($/ton) by quarter, 2017–2022

North Carolina Timber Prices Were Slightly Down in the Second Quarter of 2022

U.S. housing markets in recent months continued to plummet specifically in the southern and western regions. In June 2022, US housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of about 1.56…

Pulpwood price trend ($/ton) line chart showing pine and hardwood prices from 2ndQ-21 to 1stQ-22

Pine Sawtimber Markets Continued to Improve in North Carolina

In the first quarter of 2022, housing markets continued to climb upward in the United States. In March 2022, US housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of about 1.79 million units,…

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Quarterly Price Report

The following North Carolina standing timber price information is reported every quarter for North Carolina. The price report provides state-wide, average standing timber prices for pine, oak, and…

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Selling Timber

Learning from experience can be very expensive when it comes to timber sales. Years of growth and value are accumulated in a mature timber stand, and the combined annual income from all those years…