The month-on-month growth rate of the retail prices of selected construction materials in NCR further dropped to -4.8 percent in October from -2.3 percent in September. This can be attributed to the decreases in the indexes of miscellaneous construction materials and plumbing materials at -20.3 percent and -0.1 percent in October from their respective previous month's rates of -9.9 percent and 0.8 percent. In addition, price increments in masonry materials and painting materials and related compounds correspondingly eased to 0.1 percent and 1.0 percent from 1.8 percent 1.6 percent, respectively. Prices of tinsmithry materials recorded a zero growth rate from an increase of 0.2 percent in September.

The month-on-month growth rate of the retail prices of selected construction materials in NCR went down to -1.1 percent in August from 1.1 percent in July. Prices of painting materials and related compounds and miscellaneous construction materials correspondingly dropped by -0.1 percent and -6.2 percent in August from their respective last monthҳ rates of 0.7 percent and 2.4 percent. Moreover, price increases of electrical materials and plumbing materials slowed down to 0.2 percent from 1.3 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively and tinsmithry materials, 0.7 percent from 0.8 percent. The rest of the commodity groups registered higher price increments.

The month-on-month growth rate of the retail prices of selected construction materials in NCR picked up to 7.3 percent in June from 3.1 percent in May. Higher monthly growth rates were correspondingly posted in the prices of carpentry materials and painting materials and related compounds at 1.4 percent and 1.2 percent in June from 0.4 percent in May and miscellaneous construction materials, 28.1 percent from 12.3 percent. On the other hand, slower monthly price gains were respectively observed in electrical materials and tinsmithry materials at 0.9 percent and 3.5 percent from their corresponding previous month's rates of 1.1 percent and 4.5 percent. Price increments in masonry materials and plumbing materials remained at 0.4 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively.