City construction prices soar
A study by the Union des municipalités du Québec shows that prices for sidewalks are 72% higher now than ten years ago, and costs for municipal projects like park chalets, swimming pools and fire stations have soared. This is blamed not only obvious factors like materials and labour, but heightened construction standards too.
Roman 03:49 on 2025-12-13 Permalink
As a rule of thumb, due to inflation everything doubles in price roughly every ten years. Pandemic years have accelerated that even more. So 72% in 10 years doesn’t seem outrageous.
Anton 07:13 on 2025-12-13 Permalink
Prices doubling every 10 years implies 7% inflation. That’s a lot.
The average rate is around 2-3%, so we should get 20-35% increases over ten years.
Ian 10:14 on 2025-12-13 Permalink
“everything doubles in price roughly every ten years”
*except wages
tl,dr; average wages in Canada only went up 30.13% over the last ten years
Nicholas 15:34 on 2025-12-13 Permalink
Inflation over the last decade was 30%, according to the bank of Canada. There is no rule of thumb that inflation doubles every decade; that hasn’t been true since the 1970s/early 1980s.
Joey 18:35 on 2025-12-13 Permalink
But at least the work is done properly with the appropriate materials (and always precisely as described in the project specs) so that it lasts.
Ian 21:00 on 2025-12-13 Permalink
Haha yeah and apartment rental turnovers go up 17.2% on average because the landlords do renovations