Real estate investment trusts (REITs) own and manage income producing real estate such as buildings, bowling alleys, warehouses, and, since 1999...
Tag - Timberland Investing
Investing in wood-using mills and timberlands requires having a strategy about how to “feed” the mill or how to “market” the trees. These efforts...
As trees grow, they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This capturing of “forest carbon” is one modest part of a major transformation in how...
Even among real estate investors, timberland is still generally considered a niche investment, so it’s not surprising that many land buyers and...
Each quarter, when publishing the Forisk Research Quarterly, our team reviews the performance of prior projections to learn and adjust models, or to...
Given the variety of timber markets, wood-using mills, and forest supplies across regions, how do we organize our thinking for deciding what to do...
Calculating a mathematical average represents one approach for assessing data, or for establishing baselines or trends in the marketplace. However...
In graduate school, forest economist Dr. David Newman taught us that “timberland is a residual land use.” When he said that, I wrote it down and...
Each year, when teaching Forisk’s Applied Forest Finance short course, I add content to address new or timely questions from forest owners and...
Forest finance is the language of managing timber resources as investments. It addresses three questions. First, the investment decision considers...