In the period of four months of 2016 there were more dwellings completed than  the year before. The number of dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project and the number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased.

According to preliminary data, in the period of January-April of 2016, 49731 dwellings were completed, i.e. by 18.0% more compared with the same period of 2015, in which a drop was recorded by 10.7%. In the period of four months of 2016 the number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project amounted to 60977, i.e. by 13.0% more than in the corresponding period of 2015 (against an increase by 10.5% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 54762, i.e. by 10.5% (against a drop by 9.8% the year before).

The highest share (49.5%) in the total number of dwellings completed was attributed to private investors who in the period January-April of 2016 constructed 24630 dwellings, i.e. by 7.0% less than the year before. Compared to January-April of 2015, within this group of investors an increase was recorded in the number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project - to 27970 dwellings, i.e. by 10.4% (against an increase by 14.3% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 25831 dwellings, i.e. by 11.0% (against a drop by 0.9% the last year).

Developers, in the period of four months of 2016, completed 23471 dwellings (which constituted 47.2% of the total number of dwellings completed), i.e. by 61.9% more than in the corresponding period of 2015, when a decrease was recorded by 20.8%. Investors who build for sale or rent received building permits for 31065 dwellings, i.e. by 13.0% more than the year before (when an increase was recorded by 8.0%). An increase was recorded in the number of dwellings in which construction has begun to 27368 dwellings, i.e. by 7.1% (against an increase by 26.6% the year before).

Housing cooperatives in the period of four months of 2016 completed 961 dwellings against 494 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted decreased to 421 against 507 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings in which construction has begun increased to 918 against 407 dwellings the year before.

Other investors (municipal, public building society and company construction)    in the period of four months of 2016 completed 669 dwellings against 681 dwellings  the year before, of which in municipal construction - 348 dwellings were completed against 385 dwellings the last year, in public building society construction – 315 dwellings against 84 dwellings  and in company construction – 6 dwellings against 212 dwellings in the corresponding period of 2015. The number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted and in which construction has begun increased respectively - to 1521 dwellings against 618 dwellings the year before and to 645 dwellings against 355 the last year.