{"id":1274,"date":"2026-02-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:00:00","slug":"building-construction-investments-grow-in-q4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/building-construction-investments-grow-in-q4\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Construction Investments Grow in Q4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Building construction costs rose in Q4 2025 but at a slower pace than Q3. Residential costs increased 0.4% quarterly and 3.0% year-over-year, while non-residential costs rose 0.5% quarterly and 4.1% annually. Price pressures eased due to fewer residential starts but remained high from material costs and labor shortages. Qu\u00e9bec saw the largest residential cost rise; London led non-residential cost growth. Metal fabrications and structural steel divisions had notable increases.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.link2build.ca\/news\/articles\/2026\/january\/building-construction-costs-rise-again-in-q4\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building construction costs rose in Q4 2025 but at a slower pace than Q3. Residential costs increased 0.4% quarterly and 3.0% year-over-year, while non-residential costs rose 0.5% quarterly and 4.1% annually. Price pressures eased due to fewer residential starts but remained high from material costs and labor shortages. Qu\u00e9bec saw the largest residential cost rise; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}