Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 3/2025

Average prices of all roundwood assortment rose in March. Compared to February, prices rose by between one and three percent. 

The volume of roundwood trade in the first quarter was 10% higher than a year earlier. The average for the previous five years was exceeded by 17%, with purchases of logs up 20% and pulpwood up 8%.

Timber prices

• In standing sales in March, the average price paid for spruce logs was nearly EUR 84 per cubic metre and for pine logs just over EUR 81. The average real price of spruce logs rose by two per cent and that of pine logs by one per cent from the previous month.
• The average price of birch logs rose to almost EUR 67. That was two per cent more than a month earlier.
• In standing sales of pulpwood, the average price paid for spruce was almost EUR 35, for birch EUR 33 and for pine almost EUR 33. Prices rose by 2-3% from February and ended up 6-7% above last year's average.
• In delivery sales, the price of spruce pulpwood rose by three per cent from February to over EUR 54 per cubic metre. Price of pine and birch pulpwood rose by 1% to just over EUR 53.

Average timber prices and their real changes, March 2025

Trade volumes

• In March, six per cent more industrial roundwood was purchased from private forests than one year earlier. This was the same as the average for the previous five years.
• In January-March, the total trade volume was 10% higher than a year ago and 17% higher than the average for the previous five years. Compared to the previous five years, trade in logs increased by 20% and trade in pulpwood by 8%.

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 March 2025, the annual increase in consumer prices was zero 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.