Nairobi, April 30 -- The overall growth in average prices of key construction components, including materials, fuel, labour, and transport, flattened in 2025, providing relief to developers and contractors after years of elevated building costs that had squeezed margins.

Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that growth in the Construction Input Price Index (CIPI) dropped to 0.5 percent in 2025 from 2.8 percent in 2024 and well below the recent peak of 7.48 percent recorded in 2022.

The CIPI tracks changes in the cost of essential inputs such as cement, steel, equipment, wages, transport, and energy, pointing to a broad-based easing of price pressures across the construction value chain.

The deceleration marks ...