Construction input prices rose 0.2% from August to September, making it the fifth month in a row that prices increased, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data.
Compared with September 2024, construction materials prices were 3.5% higher in September 2025.
The five-month price increase is the longest streak since the first half of 2022, although “those increases are relatively modest,” said ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu. “Materials prices have risen at a 3.2% annualized rate since April, a rate that is faster than ideal but nowhere near the escalation that occurred in 2021 and 2022.”
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