CEPI - European Association of Real Estate Professions

On 18 June Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, published its estimated figures for seasonally adjusted production in the construction sector for April 2014 compared with March 2014. For the euro area production was up by 0.8% and for the EU 28 by 0.6%. In March 2014 production in construction fell by 0.3% and 0.2% respectively.

In April 2014 compared with April 2013, production in construction increased by 8.0% in the euro area and by 7.2% in the EU28. 

The increase of 0.8% in production in construction in the euro area in April 2014, compared with March 2014, is due to building construction rising by 1.0%, while civil engineering fell by 0.9%. In the EU 28, the increase of 0.6% is due to building construction rising by 0.9%, while civil engineering dropped by 0.8%. 

The highest increases in production in construction were observed in Slovenia (+6.7%), Spain (+4.8%) and Portugal (+4.5%) and the largest decreases in Poland (-5.4%), Romania (-4.7%) and Slovakia (-2.0%). 

On an annual basis, the increase in production in construction in the euro area is due to building construction rising by 9.4% and civil engineering by 2.8%, in the EU28 it is due to building construction rising by 8.6% and civil engineering by 1.7%. 

The highest increases in production in construction on an annual basis were registered in Spain (+53.4%), Slovenia (+48.8%), Hungary (+27.2%) and Poland (+13.3%), and the largest decreases in Portugal (-9.0%), Romania (-6.8%), Slovakia (-5.1%) and Italy (-5.0%). 

Further information is available at http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat