Q2 Merchant Sales Down -1.2% Year-on-Year. Prices Rise +5.8%. Volumes Fall -6.6%.

BMBI Q2 results reflect subdued construction market - Builders Merchants Journal

Figures released in the BMF’s Builders Merchants Building Index (BMBI) for Q2 2026 reflect a subdued construction market, with year-on-year sales of building materials down in volume but up in price. This continues the trend from Q1, with activity hampered by Middle East tensions affecting energy and oil prices, restrictive interest rates, and a lack …

BMBI: Q2 Merchant Sales Down -1.2% Y-o-Y, Prices Rise +5.8% And Volumes Fall -6.6 - ConstructUK

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Q2 Merchant sales down -1.2% year-on-year. Prices rise +5.8%. Volumes fall -6.6%.

The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report reveals builders’ merchants’ Q2 2026 like-for-like value sales, adjusted to remove the impact of trading days, -1.2% lower than Q2 2025. Like-for-like volume sales were down -6.6%, but prices increased +5.8%. With no difference in trading days, unadjusted Q2 total value sales were also down -1.2% year-on-year.... Learn More

Q2 Merchant sales down -1.2% year-on-year. Prices rise +5.8%. Volumes fall -6.6

The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report reveals builders’ merchants’ Q2 2026 like-for-like value sales, adjusted to remove the impact of trading days, -1.2% lower than Q2 2025. Like-for-like... The post Q2 Merchant sales down -1.2% year-on-year. Prices rise +5.8%. Volumes fall -6.6 appeared first on Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI).