Your one-stop-shop for all the most recent price changes and trends in the building materials, energy, housing and construction labour markets
Soaring materials prices, rocketing energy costs, the tightest construction labour market in years, a volatile housing market and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine - all these pressures are contributing to some of the toughest trading conditions facing construction firms.
Having easy to access to reliable, up-to-date data can help firms chart their course. Building’s trends and prices data dashboard pulls together figures from 14 different datasets into easy-to-use line graphs, bar charts and animated visualisations.
Scroll down for our materials prices tracker, as well as inflation, output and insolvencies data, labour market trend information, housing market figures and the latest on energy cost increases.
MATERIALS PRICE TRACKER
Aggregates
Updated: 12 April 2023
2015=100
Cement and concrete
Updated: 12 April 2023
2015=100
Timber and joinery
Updated: 12 April 2023
2015=100
Metal
Updated: 13 April 2023
2015=100
Click on the dropdown to change material
Plastic
Updated: 13 April 2023
2015=100
Other
Updated: 13 April 2023
2015=100
ECONOMY WATCH
Inflation
Updated: 19 April 2023
Construction output prices
Updated: 10 February 2022
Insolvencies in construction
Updated: 13 April 2023
LABOUR
Construction vacancies
Updated: 18 April 2023
Earnings
Updated: 18 April 2023
HOUSING MARKET
House price changes
Updated: 13 April 2023
Housing output
2019=100
Updated: 13 April 2023
ENERGY COSTS
2015=100
Updated: 13 April 2023
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