2025-06-01 14:00
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2025-06-01 14:00
The stabilization of the price dynamics of building materials on a small minus also confirmed its power in the latest analysis of the PSB group with data for April. As the experts of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal note last month, the inheritance trend at the fraction level of the percent was maintained in relation to year on year. In this situation, predicting any significant changes in the average rates of building materials seems to be more and more difficult.
The average dynamics of building materials, published by the PSB group, recorded a negative value in April in April, this time at -0.6%. In the retail channel, the decrease was 0.5%, while in the wholesale channel by 0.6%.
The increase in prices in April 2025. Compared to April 2024, 5 groups were recorded, prices in 4 categories remained unchanged, while the decreases occurred in 11 groups.
The largest drop in prices occurred in the case of:
- thermal insulation (-6%),
- finishes (-3%),
- dry buildings (-3%),
- waterproofing insulation (-3%),
- lighting, (-3%),
- electrics (-3%).
In turn, the largest increases concerned the category:
- OSB plates (+8%),
- wood (+8%),
- home surroundings (+4%).
In the current situation, everything seems to indicate that as long as the announced investment boom as part of the national economy in the segments of road, rail, energy, military or a little later, even later, will not become a completed fact, the prices on the domestic market of building materials will remain stable with a slight downward trend.
Meanwhile, as the experts of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal notice, the latest data of the CSO of housing construction in April again confirmed the weakening of the investment boom of the primary housing market. While individual investors remain relatively active at single -family houses' construction, developers quite clearly limit the volumes of new investments, while the result of new development permits in April was achieved by one of the lowest historically levels. This type of situation does not bode well for building materials in the predictable future of housing construction.
In addition, there are still current factors limiting price pressure on building materials, i.e. still a strong golden, relatively low level of raw material valuations, especially energy on global stock exchanges, and and after all an endless and tense geopolitical situation.
And the latter again made itself felt by the announcement of President Trump about the intention of applying 50 %. duties on products from the EU. The Polish export of building materials to the US may not be particularly impressive, or even more decisive for native producers, but in recent years exports to the American market in the domestic whole joinery segment, including windows and doors, have been growing very dynamically. If the announced duties are introduced, not only native manufacturers of construction joinery can feel in a negative way another controversial step of the American administration, but also in an indirect manner also producers and exporters of other groups of goods of building materials.
Jarosław Jędrzyński
