Prices of building materials. Is a breakthrough?

July did not bring a breakthrough on the building materials market. Prices still remain in a slight decline, and their dynamics lasts for a year at a stable, negative level. As the experts of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal emphasize, this time the discount was accompanied by a clear increase in demand in most segments. This is the question of whether the observed trend can herald the upcoming solstice in the sales conference. According to PSB group data, in July the average prices of building materials decreased by 1 percent. year to year – both in retail and wholesale.

– Price increase in July 2025. Compared to July 2024, only three freight groups were recorded, while in the remaining seventeen there were declines. Such proportions indicate that heavily fixed, but a definitely moderate inheritance trend is getting better and better – notes Jarosław Jędrzyński, an expert of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal.

Waterproof insulation – 4.3 percent, as well as lighting and electrics – by 3.8 percent. and finishing materials – by 3.4 percent Small price increases were recorded only in three categories: OSB boards and wood (2.3 percent), paints and varnishes (2.0 percent) as well as cement and lime (1.5 percent). Against the background of data, it is clear not only the advantage of freight groups with discounts, but also a larger scale of discounts than increases.

Revival of building materials on the market?

In the July report, the PSB group for the first time in a long time noted the revival of demand, covering most groups of building materials.

– It is probably not a matter of the fact that the increase in sales coincided with a clear reflection of the CSO statistics regarding housing construction. Their heavily established inheritance trend in July was clearly reversed, which significantly dismissed the growing spectrum of the risk of refraction of the investment situation in the original segment of native housing – says Jarosław Jędrzyński.

In his opinion, both individual investors and developers have contributed to the significant improvement in data, although the latter is clearly more.

– The strongest relief of the decreasing tendency has become the participation of new development building permits, but the most important data from the point of view of the current economic condition, i.e. the apartments whose construction began, appeared equally optimistic. It seems that the fears of housing builders about the development prospects of new premises have given way to investment mobilization before the expected autumn increase in the demand activity of the primary market – says the expert.

Expert: “The demand for building materials should increase”

According to the expert, if the revival in housing investments does not burn in the acetabulum, the demand for building materials should also increase in the following months.

– Although the building materials market is still in the balance phase, the combination of stabilization of the dynamics of rates with gradual rebirth of demand suggests that we are close to the turning point and in the perspective of the following months we can observe a gradual reflection of prices, especially in key categories such as cement or wood. However, it should be remembered that the prices of some materials are also affected by the global economic situation, the prices of raw materials and currency courses – and these can disturb this reflection – notes Jędrzyński.

At the same time, it indicates that the situation on the side of the construction industry itself remains much more difficult than suggested by a picture of stable prices.

– The native construction industry in the most serious crisis for a decade has still been looking forward to the investment boom announced for months within the national economy – in segments of road, rail, energy, military or housing construction financed from EU funds – he states.

He emphasizes that this situation does not have to last forever, and the revival of the economic situation on the construction market due to KPO funds will eventually be materialized.