{"id":435608,"date":"2026-08-07T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/uk-construction-slump-eases-in-july-amid-rebound-in-client-demand-435608\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:00:08","slug":"uk-construction-slump-eases-in-july-amid-rebound-in-client-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/uk-construction-slump-eases-in-july-amid-rebound-in-client-demand-435608\/","title":{"rendered":"UK construction slump eases in July amid rebound in client demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>July construction PMI 44.7 vs 40.0 expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior 38.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The downturn in the UK construction sector eased in July as all three main categories recorded a<br \/>\nslower drop in business activity. Meanwhile, new orders fell by\u00a0the least marked extent since<br \/>\nSeptember 2025. So, there are some positives to start the third quarter even if overall conditions remain subdued for the most part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Commercial work (46.8) showed<br \/>\nthe greatest resilience, while civil engineering activity again<br \/>\nsaw the steepest pace of decline (38.3). Meanwhile, house<br \/>\nbuilding activity fell at the slowest pace since<br \/>\nOctober 2025 (41.8). This comes as the decline in total new business received by construction companies eased to the weakest in 10 months during July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Adding to that good news is a further easing in price pressures as well. Input price inflation is seen easing further from May&#8217;s<br \/>\nnear 4-year high.\u00a0Although still sharp, the latest increase<br \/>\nin average cost burdens was the slowest since February.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July construction PMI 44.7 vs 40.0 expected Prior 38.4 The downturn in the UK construction sector eased in July as all three main categories recorded a slower drop in business activity. Meanwhile,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}