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Construction costs up 0.4 per cent
The construction costs of residential buildings increased by 0.4 per cent from December last year to January this year. From January 2007 to January 2008, the costs rose by 7.1 per cent.
In January 2008, the construction costs of multi-dwelling houses had the highest increase with 0.6 per cent. The increase for detached houses of wood was 0.2 per cent. Material costs of multi-dwelling houses and detached houses of wood rose by 0.6 and 0.2 per cent respectively. For both types of buildings, the material costs of site preparation and electrician installation work had the strongest increase.
January 2008 | Change in per cent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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December 2007- January 2008 | January 2007- January 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential buildings 1 | 137.4 | 0.4 | 7.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential buildings, labour cost | 140.2 | 0.0 | 5.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential buildings, materials | 138.2 | 0.4 | 8.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood | 137.5 | 0.2 | 7.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood, materials | 138.0 | 0.2 | 8.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood, other building work | 137.4 | 0.1 | 7.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detached houses of wood, other building work, materials | 137.5 | 0.1 | 9.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-dwelling houses | 138.9 | 0.6 | 6.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-dwelling houses, materials | 142.4 | 0.6 | 6.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | Construction cost index for residential buildings is weighted by index for detached houses of wood and index for multi-dwelling houses. |
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