Sept.housing construction cost up 0.29% on rebar, fuel

Santo Domingo.- The Housing Construction DirectCost Index climbed 0.29% in September, on higher prices of rebar (4.24%), andfuels (3.27%).

The National Statistics Office (ONE) and the HousingBuilders and Developers Association (Acoprovi) in their latest bulletins, which"By September the ICDV was 134.43 on average, and posted a monthly variationof 0.29%, higher than was recorded in the same month last year, which was a -0.15%rate," the bulletins said.

On Monday the Central Bank posted Septemberinflation of 0.04%, which was also influenced by higher transport costs as theresult of rising fuel prices.