{"id":12197,"date":"2025-02-20T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:40:01","slug":"construction-market-trends-for-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/construction-market-trends-for-january-2025","title":{"rendered":"Construction Market Trends for January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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The construction market saw a decline in January 2025 compared to January 2024. Both new construction and alteration activity experienced year-over-year decreases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Construction<\/strong> Year-over-Year Change: -7.74%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alterations<\/strong> Year-over-Year Change: -3.69%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regionally, all of them experienced declines year-over-year with the exception of alteration activity in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pacific <\/strong>New Construction: -1.9%; Alterations: +6.1%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southwest <\/strong>New Construction: -17.4%; Alterations: -2.4%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midwest <\/strong>New Construction: -18.5%; Alterations: -16.7%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southeast <\/strong>New Construction: -12.4%; Alterations: -21.0%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northeast <\/strong>New Construction: -4.6%; Alterations: -4.7%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Mechanical, Electrical, & Plumbing (MEP) we saw a nominal increase for Mechanical year-over-year, but a decline for both Electrical and Plumbing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mechanical (HVAC)<\/strong> Year-over-Year Change: +0.6%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electrical <\/strong>Year-over-Year Change: -3.3%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plumbing <\/strong>Year-over-Year Change: -5.5%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ADU activity remains positive year-over-year, however it continues it’s downtrend month-over-month. Solar installations also continue their decline both year-over-year and month-over-month,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADU <\/strong>year-over-year change: +10.4%; Month-over-month change: -8.4%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar <\/strong>year-over-year change: -13.2%; Month-over-month change: -8.6%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The construction market saw a decline in January 2025 compared to January 2024. Both new construction and alteration activity experienced year-over-year decreases. New Construction Year-over-Year Change: -7.74% Alterations Year-over-Year Change: -3.69% Regionally, all of them experienced declines year-over-year with the exception of alteration activity in the Pacific region. Pacific New Construction: -1.9%; Alterations: +6.1% Southwest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-projects","7":"category-buildzoom","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}