Affected by the shrinking real estate market, the sales volume of the home improvement building materials market has declined slightly this year compared to previous years. However, due to the rising costs of labor and transportation, the price of ceramic tiles and floors has increased by a certain margin, and wallpaper prices have dropped by 23%.

The price of ceramic tiles is several times higher than in ceramic stores in a building materials market in Xinbei District. The reporter saw that the prices of various ceramic tiles are very high. The price tag for tiles of 60 cm×60 cm is 200-300 yuan, which is cheaper. It's also 190 yuan.

The store owner Mr. Wang introduced, “The price of ceramic tiles this year has gone up, and the average size of each piece of 60cm×60cm has risen by one or two yuan.” However, with the price increase, tile sales have not been as good as in previous years. "Mainly affected by the real estate market this year, the market demand has decreased."

Mr. Wang said that although the price of tiles is very high, the actual price can be much lower. “General low-grade bricks cost as much as a dozen dollars, and mid-range bricks are 30 or more, and high-end ones are 50 or more.”

Then why is the price several times or even more than ten times the actual transaction price? Mr. Wang reluctantly said with a smile: "Everybody is such a target. The customer's habit is to smash the price, then we will go to the high price, the customer will Feel less money to buy high-end goods."

Floor prices rose 5% over last year

In the flooring sales area, the reporter saw that the cheapest laminate flooring is only 36 yuan per square meter, and the price of solid wood flooring is four or five hundred yuan a square meter.

A floor franchise store sales staff, said the usual sales will hit 10%, the maximum effort to reach 20% off. The overall price of floorboards this year has risen about 5% from last year, mainly due to the increase in artificial labor prices. There is also a growing demand for floorboards, leading to higher production costs.

The price of wallpaper has dropped by 23% compared with ceramic tile and floor. Wallpaper this year is much cheaper than in previous years. According to a salesperson of a wallpaper franchise store, this year's wallpaper sales are relatively light. “The threshold for wallpaper manufacturing is low, and there are many small factories. This has led to more intense competition and a situation of oversupply. Therefore, wallpaper prices have fallen by 20%-30% compared with previous years.

Sales staff said that the surface of the wallpaper is similar, but there are many things inside, what ink, what paper, and glue are all advantages and disadvantages. He said: "The same wallpaper, using different materials, the price can be a hundred dollars or more."

The reporter saw that the prices of the wallpapers of foreign brands are more expensive, and the price of one volume (5 square meters) can reach 1,000-3,000 yuan. In contrast, the domestic brands are much more affordable, and the first-line brands each have a price of 100-300 yuan. The price of the second and third-line brands is even lower, generally ranging from RMB 40 to RMB 150.