Construction, in 2025 investments (-2%) and employment (-4%) down in the Caserta area

Construction is slowing down in the province of Caserta. Raising the alarm is Ance Caserta, which, on the basis of the 2025 sector budget, strongly urges planning for the post-NRP period.

According to the Caserta Builders' Association's calculations, made on the basis of the wage bill and the number of active companies, the year 2025 recorded a -2% in investment volume. Also negative were the balance of active companies (-1.8%) and the number of workers employed in Terra di Lavoro (-4%), where the construction workforce exceeds 17,000.

This trend is even worse than that recorded at national level, where in 2025 there was a 1.1% drop in investment in construction. If, in Italia, public construction has compensated for a major drop in the private sector, depotentiated by the drastic downsizing of tax incentives, in the Caserta area, on the contrary, the two sectors are equivalent, with a slight prevalence of private construction sites. 2025 is therefore confirmed as a complex year for the construction sector, however, the scenario looming with the end of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and tax bonuses calls for serious and immediate reflection on the future of the sector.

The negative dynamic, in fact, risks becoming more pronounced as early as 2026, with an expected drop in both the private market, which lacks incentive tools, and, above all, in public demand, with many Pnrr works behind schedule. The construction industry represents a fundamental multiplier for employment, for induced activities and for social cohesion, so without a new impulse, there is a risk of an abrupt braking of the entire territorial economic system. To address this serious risk, Ance Caserta calls on national and regional institutions to open a round table to define a new regulatory and financial framework to accompany the post-NRP phase, avoiding a programming vacuum that would have serious consequences on the production fabric.

"The sector has demonstrated adaptability and resilience, holding its own in this province among the top GDP items, but now a vision is needed and a 2026 must be built on reasoned growth profiles. Our proposals are: strategic infrastructures for the territory, urban regeneration, and a housing plan that focuses on subsidized and social housing _ says the president of Ance Caserta, Antonio Pezone _ The need for housing is growing, especially for young couples, single-income families, and workers. It is necessary to incentivise building at subsidised prices, through public-private partnership tools and new forms of agreement that make investments sustainable and guarantee accessibility for citizens. On the other hand, there is a need for policies that encourage the conversion of the many buildings abandoned to decay in the historic centres of our cities and create modern infrastructures that connect the centres with the suburbs'.