Prices of building materials bane. Industry in crisis

The first half of this year was marked by stagnation on the building materials market. Price dynamics has been in a narrow range of negative values, not exceeding -1 percent for over a year, and this trend has no signs of reversal.

In June the situation repeated itself – the decline in the year on year was symbolic and amounted to 0.8 percent. According to PSB group data. In retail sales, prices decreased by 0.4 percent, while in the wholesale channel – by 1.1 percent. As a result of changing rates in terms of a month to month, they remain insignificant and do not have a real impact on the market situation.

– price increase in June 2025. Compared to the same month of 2024, only in 3 freight groups were recorded, prices in 5 categories remain unchanged, while the decreases occurred in 12 subgroups. Such proportions still indicate a strongly fixed downward trend of definitely moderate – notes Jarosław Jędrzyński, an expert of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal.

Prices of building materials – clear differences in trends

According to experts of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal, in June the largest decreases in the prices of building materials were recorded in the case of thermal insulation (-4.5 percent), lighting and electrics (-3.8 percent) and waterproof insulation (-3.5 percent). In turn, the prices of OSB and wood (+3.4 percent) as well as paints and varnishes (+1.9 percent) went up. It is more and more clearly seen that the number of parsley categories is decreasing, and the group of goods remaining in the inheritance trend gain an advantage.

The situation on the building materials market and the situation in construction

The situation on the building materials market remains closely related to the condition of the national construction industry. The Polish Association of Construction Employers has recently announced that the sector has been dealing with the most serious crisis since 2016.

– Now confirmation of the thesis about the record poor conjunction of the domestic building sector has been communicated by the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The WIG-Budownican index dived in just a few sessions by one tenth of values, which was mainly a consequence of a similar discount of Budimex SA campaign, one of the main industry tuzów-says Jarosław Jędrzyński.

Perspectives and challenges for the construction market

Experts of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal note that the stock market rate of construction companies has been present relatively good, especially in the face of the deteriorating economic environment so far. This was probably the result of the media forecasts of the upcoming investment boom in road, rail, energy, military and housing, financed from EU funds. Meanwhile, there is still little going on, which discourages both stock market investors and other market participants, including building materials producers.

– The noisy revival in the infrastructure segment is already delayed by several months, which should cause pressure on the decision -making structures of the state, which, according to market experts, so far fail systemically all over the line not only in recent months. The recent collapse of Budimex quotations can be a clear signal of the approaching eager business collapse in the native construction, unless the governmental bodies take appropriate actions in the near future – sums up Jędrzyński.