Construction output volume grew by 2.6% year-on-year and lessened by 5.3% compared to the previous month
Construction output volume, based on raw data, was above the previous year’s level by 2.6% and by 0.9% based on calendar-adjusted index in June 2025. Among the main construction groups the construction of buildings rose by 0.4%, that of civil engineering grew by 6.5%. Based on seasonally and working day adjusted indices construction output lagged behind the May 2025 level by 5.3%. Construction producer prices increased by 5.7% in the 2nd quarter of 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year.
In June 2025 compared to the same month of the previous year:
Output in both main groups of construction increased: the onstruction of buildings by 0.4%, that of civil engineering by 6.5%.
Among the divisions of construction, production volume increased by 11.1% in the construction of buildings, and by by 11.0% in civil engineering. Production in specialised construction activities, having the largest weight in construction, fell by 5.6%.
The volume of new contracts concluded went up by 67.8%; within it the volume of contracts for the construction of buildings increased by 7.0%, those for civil engineering works grew by 147.9%.
The volume of the end-of-June stock of contracts at construction enterprises was 17.9% higher than one year earlier, within it the volume of contracts for the construction of buildings was down by 7.2% and grew by 38.5% for civil engineering works, compared to June 2024.
In the first six months of 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year:
Construction output volume did not change.
Construction Producer Prices:
Within the divisions of construction, prices went up in the 2nd quarter of 2025 most of all (by 6.5%) in the greatest weight carrying specialized construction activities, the price rise was 5.6% in civil engineering and 4.6% in the construction of buildings compared to the 2nd quarter of 2024.
Construction prices were 1.3% higher on average than in the 1st quarter of 2025.
Output of construction
| Period | Output of construction | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| volume indices | value at current prices, billion HUF | |||||
| unadjusted (raw) | seasonally and working day adjusted | |||||
| corresponding period of the previous year =100.0% | 2021 = 100.0% | previous month = 100.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 121.3 | 82.1 | 80.6 | x | 3 321.3 | |
| 2019 | 120.4 | 99.1 | 99.1 | x | 4 381.6 | |
| 2020 | 90.3 | 89.4 | 89.9 | x | 4 240.4 | |
| 2021 | 112.1 | 100.0 | 99.0 | x | 5 330.6 | |
| 2022 | 101.6 | 101.9 | 102.2 | x | 6 779.8 | |
| 2023 | 94.7 | 96.5 | 96.8 | x | 7 366.9 | |
| 2024 | 98.8 | 95.3 | 96.4 | x | 7 699.5 | |
| 2024 | January | 113.9 | 64.9 | 106.6 | 105.3 | 436.8 |
| February | 101.2 | 68.1 | 98.7 | 92.6 | 452.9 | |
| March | 96.4 | 93.6 | 99.3 | 100.6 | 625.9 | |
| April | 114.0 | 86.9 | 100.3 | 101.0 | 574.7 | |
| May | 106.4 | 95.6 | 96.8 | 96.5 | 636.1 | |
| June | 100.6 | 100.3 | 97.3 | 100.6 | 672.8 | |
| July | 93.5 | 99.0 | 93.8 | 96.4 | 663.6 | |
| August | 96.2 | 94.1 | 94.6 | 100.8 | 629.0 | |
| September | 90.3 | 104.1 | 89.6 | 94.7 | 699.1 | |
| October | 97.0 | 97.6 | 91.8 | 102.5 | 662.3 | |
| November | 96.0 | 110.1 | 93.0 | 101.3 | 753.3 | |
| December | 95.0 | 129.7 | 94.6 | 101.8 | 892.9 | |
| 2025 | January | 92.3 | 59.9 | 97.1 | 102.6 | 424.6 |
| February | 96.1 | 65.4 | 95.6 | 98.4 | 458.9 | |
| March | 95.6 | 89.5 | 95.2 | 99.6 | 631.5 | |
| April | 103.2 | 89.7 | 102.7 | 107.8 | 626.4 | |
| May | 106.8 | 102.0 | 103.7 | 101.0 | 718.0 | |
| June | 102.6 | 102.9 | 98.2 | 94.7 | 730.3 | |
| January-June | 100.0 | 84.9 | 98.7 | x | 3589.6 | |