section_path: Economy/Present-day economy/Construction
section_name: Construction
paragraph_text: Construction
  
  The construction sector, contributing 6.5% to the city's economy in 2010,: 265 was a growing sector before the recession, aided by a large transport and infrastructure program. More recently the construction sector has fallen away and earned 8% less in 2009 than it had been in 2000.: 242–3 The decrease was particularly marked in the residential sector, where prices dropped by 25%–27% from 2007 to 2012/13: 202, 212 and the number of sales fell by 57%.: 216