Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

And you combine that with Berkshire's Clayton properties, they now cover 21 states and 52 markets.

In Japan, you have the TriPoint, you know, Sumitomo Forestry takes over TriPoint Homes, $4.5 billion all cash.

That was a huge deal, if you remember that one.

Oh, yeah, I do remember that.

Similar developments are cropping up all across Europe, North America and Asia.

Most ambitious of all is the Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry's master plan for a 350 metre high wooden skyscraper.

When completed, sometime around 2041, it will become not only the tallest wooden building in the world by some distance, but also the tallest building of any kind in Japan.

Bookard was going to Helsinki the following week to give a speech.

That's unusual.

Yes, and the really interesting story in this year's statistics is Sumitomo Forestry Australia.

So they actually bought Scott Park Group, which has, you know, that's Red Ink Homes, 101 Residential, B1 Homes and that kind of... bumped them up on the list.

So nationally they had 8,000 home starts or better than 8,000.