Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (813Kb PDF) The size of the global timberland investment market has historically been difficult to determine because of the private nature of timberland transactions and the lack of reliable, public data. On a regular basis though, the relative size of the marketplace has been used by [...]
This debate arises from the fact that one of the biggest, and largely unknown, stories of the past decade has been the rapid liquidation of the land assets of the industrial pulp, paper, and aligned forest products industry.
Announcement by the Saline County Economic Development Corporation (SCEDC) and Entergy’s Teamwork Arkansas of the certification of a “Mega-Site” in Saline County. A mega-site is a location of 1,500 acres or more set aside for development by businesses looking for a site on which to build. The Saline County site is the largest “certified”* mega-site [...]
Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (2Mb PDF) In 2004, Chung-Hong Fu, PhD published a white paper entitled “Timberland as an Inflation Hedge”. In this paper, the characteristics and historical return histories of timberland were evaluated to assess the effectiveness of timberland as an inflation hedge. This most recent installment, “Comparing Timberland [...]
Chris Curth: Managing Director Real Estate Chung-Hong Fu: Managing Director Economic Research and Analysis DOWNLOAD (920Kb PDF) Increasing land values within timberland portfolios have received unprecedented attention in the past few years. In many instances, investors recognize that land values are not appreciating because of the value for timber production, but rather because the land [...]
