Post-holiday building materials market will gradually warm up

"Generally, after the first month of the fifteenth, migrant workers will return to the city to return to the city." Mr. Yang, the head of the bidding and procurement project of another construction company in Henan, said that due to the time limit for returning migrant workers to the city, the real estate market will actually start in large areas until March. After mid-day.

In the past decade, the process of urbanization in China has accelerated significantly. It is understood that the urbanization rate increases by approximately 1 percentage point each year, and exceeded 50% for the first time in 2011. According to this speed, some experts predict that by 2020, the urbanization rate in China will exceed 60%. “This is undoubtedly an advantage for the building materials market.” Mr. Yang believes that the overall situation of the building materials market in 2013 will be significantly better than 2012. "However, due to the fact that the real estate market is still building materials, there is still a need for a digestive process."

As a late construction material, the glass market has begun to react. The reporter learned from relevant glass processing companies that at present, the orders they received are abundant, and many glass companies have increased their stocking efforts before the holiday. "Even if the reserve is fully stocked, the orders on hand are still sufficient to consume these stocks," said a person in charge of a glass company. In his view, the glass spot market will have a wave of price increase after the year.

For the view that glass will increase prices, Zhao Jin** analyst Shan Xiuyu agrees. “Conservative estimates that the price increase should be after the first month of the fifteenth, but this process will not be rapid.” Shan Xiuyu said that the recent low temperature in the north, construction projects can not be constructed, the spot market recovery is a process from south to north.

Jiao Yonggang of Jinjing Technology Co., Ltd. stated that the recent Northeast Glass Enterprise Consortium meeting determined that the latest winter storage price will be increased by RMB 6 on the basis of the previous period. “This move fully shows that the upstream and downstream industries are generally optimistic about the future market”.

The recent performance of rebar, which is on the same demand side of the building materials market as glass, is equally gratifying. With the mild recovery of the economy, steel mills have substantially increased their factory prices, raw material prices have risen, and some of the construction sites will start ahead of schedule. The multiple factors favor the post-holiday steel market.

According to data from 13 cities monitored by Centaline Property, the area of ​​residential land supply increased by approximately 59% in January 2013. Benefiting from good sales throughout 2012, most developers have full confidence in the market outlook. “The overall improvement of the building materials market after the holiday is evident. This will be a boost for the related building materials and products.” An industry insider expects that after the Spring Festival, building materials such as glass and rebar will gradually increase.