With regard to the producer price index (PPI) -- one of the measures of prices of goods traded in the corporate  6  sector -- the year-on-year rate of change for 2018 showed an average increase of 2.5 percent, due to rises in prices of raw materials and personnel expenses.
However, this new building will occur at the same time as the Canterbury rebuild is taking place, creating significant resource pressures in the national construction industry. Figure 5 shows the amount of new dwellings that might be built over the coming three years if accord targets were fully met and 12,000 new homes were built in Canterbury over the same period.