Institutional investors are buying timberland at about one million acres a year, according to Bank of America, and some individual investors, including younger Americans priced out of housing, are also looking at the asset class. Owners such as Pat Dorn, who holds 2,500 acres in South Carolina, warn that short-term returns are low because timber supply exceeds demand in a sluggish housing market. The NCREIF Timberland Property Index returned 0.95% in the second quarter of 2026, with 0.34% from income and 0.61% from appreciation. Prices vary by product: South Carolina pine pulpwood stumpage fell about 33% to $3.79 a ton in the third quarter of 2026, pine sawtimber dipped about 6% to $21.47, and hardwood sawtimber rose about 40% to $22.52. Dorn said pulpwood once reached $12 to $18 a ton and could recover if the housing market does.
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