December data signalled an eighth successive monthly decrease in home building across the Eurozone. The contraction was steep overall and, when excluding COVID-19, the sharpest since March 2013. The drop in activity levels at German firms was the sharpest of the three largest eurozone nations and the quickest since February 2012.
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