{"id":12268,"date":"2025-04-17T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2025-04-17T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:33:19","slug":"construction-market-trends-for-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/construction-market-trends-for-march-2025","title":{"rendered":"Construction Market Trends for March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The construction market had an increase in March over February, and New Construction continued to remain fairly static year-over-year, and Alterations saw an increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Construction <\/strong>Month over Month change: +7.51%;  Year-over-Year Change: -0.01%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alterations<\/strong> Month over Month change: +7.03%; Year-over-Year Change: +1.01%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regionally, all regions saw an increase in both New Construction and Alteration activity month-over-month, with Southeast alterations seeing a significant increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Month-over-Month changes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pacific <\/strong>New Construction: +4.24%; Alterations: +1.24%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southwest <\/strong>New Construction: +5.23%; Alterations: +2.23%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midwest <\/strong>New Construction: +8.54%; Alterations: +8.97%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southeast <\/strong>New Construction: +8.33%; Alterations: +20.93%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northeast <\/strong>New Construction: +8.08%; Alterations: +2.11%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Mechanical, Electrical, & Plumbing (MEP), all three trades saw increases in March over February, while Plumbing was the only trade that saw a decrease year-over-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mechanical (HVAC)<\/strong> Month-over-month change: +0.57%; Year-over-Year Change: +1.17%;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electrical <\/strong>Month-over-month: +6.25%; Year-over-Year Change: +3.65%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plumbing <\/strong>Month-over-month change: +5.43%; Year-over-Year Change: -1.02%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ADU activity remains positive year-over-year, and has seen a small increase Month-over-month. Solar activity remains down Year-over-Year, however had an increase Month-over-month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADU <\/strong>year-over-year change: +11.14%; Month-over-month change: +1.19%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar <\/strong>year-over-year change: -5.07%; Month-over-month change: +4.57%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The construction market had an increase in March over February, and New Construction continued to remain fairly static year-over-year, and Alterations saw an increase. New Construction Month over Month change: +7.51%;  Year-over-Year Change: -0.01% Alterations Month over Month change: +7.03%; Year-over-Year Change: +1.01% Regionally, all regions saw an increase in both New Construction and Alteration […]<\/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":[50,7,15,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-projects","7":"category-buildzoom","8":"category-market-data","9":"category-market-trends","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","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=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buildzoom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}