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Construction costs up 2.1 per cent
The construction costs of residential buildings increased by 2.1 per cent from December 2014 to December 2015. The material costs rose by 2.8 per cent in the same period.
| December 2015 | |||
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| Change from last month, per cent | Change from last year, per cent | Index | |
| 1Construction cost index for residential buildings is weighted by index for detached houses of wood and index for multi-dwelling houses. | |||
| Residential buildings1 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 173.3 |
| Residential buildings, labour cost | 0.0 | 1.8 | 181.5 |
| Residential buildings, materials | 0.0 | 2.8 | 175.0 |
| Detached houses of wood | 0.0 | 2.2 | 174.5 |
| Detached houses of wood, materials | 0.0 | 2.9 | 174.7 |
| Detached houses of wood, other building work | -0.1 | 2.3 | 174.8 |
| Detached houses of wood, other building work, materials | 0.0 | 2.8 | 173.4 |
| Multi-dwelling houses | 0.1 | 2.0 | 173.1 |
| Multi-dwelling houses, materialsr | 0.1 | 2.8 | 180.8 |
From December 2014 to December 2015, the construction costs of detached houses of wood and multi-dwelling houses increased by 2.2 and 2.0 per cent respectively.
From November to December 2015, the construction costs of multi-dwelling houses increased by 0.1 per cent, while detached houses of wood remained unchanged in the same period.
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Hanne Beate Høiby
E-mail: hanne.hoiby@ssb.no
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Mona Takle
E-mail: mona.takle@ssb.no
tel.: (+47) 40 81 14 12