Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 4/2025

Roundwood prices continued to rise in April to a record high. Real pulpwood prices were the highest ever in 30 years of monthly statistics. The last time standing sales log prices were at this level was in 2007-2008.

Roundwood trade was brisk in April. The volume bought from private forests was half bigger than the average for the previous five April months. January-April, the volume was one fifth higher than a year ago and one quarter higher than the average for the previous five years.

Timber prices

• In standing sales in April, the average price paid for spruce logs was nearly EUR 85 per cubic metre and for pine logs almost EUR 83. The real average price of spruce logs rose by one per cent and that of pine logs by two per cent from the previous month. The average price of birch logs exceeded EUR 67.
• Standing sales prices for logs have risen to exceptionally high levels. The last time average monthly prices were as high was in 2007-2008.
• In standing sales of pulpwood, the average price paid for spruce was over EUR 35, for birch almost EUR 34 and for pine just over EUR 33. Prices rose by 1-3% from March.
• In delivery sales, average prices of spruce and birch pulpwood rose by one per cent to around EUR 54 per cubic metre. The price of pine pulpwood fell slightly to just under EUR 53.
• The monthly statistics started in 1995 have never recorded such standing sales prices for pine and birch pulpwood, and the last time the average price for spruce pulpwood was this high in real terms was in 2007. Pulpwood delivery prices were also at record levels.

Average timber prices and their real changes, April 2025

Trade volumes

• In April, half more industrial roundwood was purchased from private forests than one year earlier. The volume was 52% higher than the average for the previous five years.
• The volume of timber trade in January-April was 20% higher than a year ago and 26% higher than the average for the previous five years.

Background information on the statistics

Unit prices in roundwood trade are recorded in the statistical database at the fair prices valid each time. However, price changes are examined in the texts and graphs in real terms by eliminating the change in value using the cost-of-living index. In April 2025, the annual increase in consumer prices was less than one per cent.

The recorded prices are based on prices entered in wood trade agreements between the buyers and sellers. Any other increments and services related to wood trade are not included in the statistics.

Wood trade data for statistics are provided by the largest buyers of wood and forest management associations. As the information is not rounded up to correspond to the total non-industrial private wood trade in Finland, the published wood volumes only represent about 90 per cent of the wood purchased by forest industries from non-industrial private forests.