Confidence in the building sector slipped in the second quarter from the four-year high registered in the first three months of 2022, weighed down by a plunge in the attitude of building material manufacturers, an industry survey showed on Wednesday.

The FNB/Bureau of Economic Research building confidence index registered a 6-point decline to 34 in the second quarter, but core building — which excludes building material manufacturing and hardware retail — gained four points to 35...