Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
Building Material Price Inflation Nears Four Year High
What the source reported
Source-reportedThe Producer Price Index for final demand was up 1.3% in September, after rising 0.5% in August. Compared to a year ago, final demand prices were up 6.3%. The price of goods used in new residential construction (including energy) was up 1.8% over the month and up 9.7% from last year, while the price of […]
- Publication
- NAHB Eye on Housing - building materials price analysis · Trade Publication
- Published
- 15th October 2026
- Original report
- eyeonhousing.org
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- United States
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 15th October 2026 · 18:20
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Low (14.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (31.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth