Household consumption increased by 0.1 percent week 4-7 2026 compared with week 52-3 2025/2026. Compared with the same period last year, household consumption week 4-7 2026 increased by 2.0 percent. Both figures are measured in constant prices and are calendar and seasonally adjusted.
According to preliminary figures for 2025, the construction of 30 250 dwellings was started in new buildings. This is 11 percent up from 2024, when construction of 27 173 dwellings was started.
The inflation rate according to the CPI in January 2026 was 0.5 percent, up from 0.3 in December. The monthly change for the CPI from December to January was 0.1 percent. The inflation rate according to the CPIF (Consumer Price Index with fixed interest rate) was 2.0 percent in January, down from 2.1 percent in December.
Capacity utilisation in industry decreased by 0.6 percentage points in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the third quarter of 2025 in seasonally adjusted figures.
The annual growth rate for Tenant owners’ associations turned from negative to positive during 2025. In december the growth rate was 0,8 percent compared to –1,0 percent in January the same year. This is mainly due to an increase in amount with interest rate fixation period of over 1 year up to and including 3 years. Interest fixation periods of over 3 years has long held the largest volume share but it has been declining for a long time. In December 2025 interest fixation periods of over 1 year up to and including 3 years had for the first time become the fixation period that accounted for the largest volume share. For interest fixation periods up to and including three months, so called floating rate, the volume share has declined from October 2024 to August 2025 and then increased slightly toward the end of the year.