In the period of seven 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 January-July of 2016, 85848 dwellings were completed, i.e. by 11.7% more compared with the same period of 2015, in which a drop was recorded by 3.5%. In the period of seven 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 116475, i.e. by 12.2% more than in the corresponding period of 2015 (against an increase by 12.6% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 101336, i.e. by 6.1% (against an increase  by 11.7% the year before).

The highest share (49.8%) in the total number of dwellings completed was attributed to private investors who in the period January-July of 2016 constructed 42793 dwellings, i.e. by 6.7% less than the year before. Compared to January-July 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 55846 dwellings, i.e. by 9.5% (against an increase by 13.8% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 49337 dwellings, i.e. by 4.9% (against an increase by 1.6% the last year).

Developers, in the period of seven months of 2016, completed 40591 dwellings (which constituted 47.3% of the total number of dwellings completed), i.e. by 40.8% more than in the corresponding period of 2015, when a decrease was recorded by 8.4%. Investors who build for sale or rent received building permits for 57675 dwellings, i.e. by 12.4% more than the year before (when an increase was recorded by 13.4%). An increase was recorded in the number of dwellings in which construction has begun to 49129 dwellings, i.e. by 4.8% (against an increase by 26.9% the year before).

Housing cooperatives in the period of seven months of 2016 completed 1247 dwellings against 735 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted increased to 718 against 695 dwellings the year before and the number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 1685 against 831 dwellings the year before.

Other investors (municipal, public building society and company construction)    in the period of seven months of 2016 completed 1217 dwellings against 1423 dwellings  the year before, of which in municipal construction - 605 dwellings were completed against 653 dwellings the last year, in public building society construction – 564 dwellings against 552 dwellings and in company construction – 48 dwellings against 218 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 2236 dwellings against 836 dwellings the year before and to 1185 dwellings against 773 the last year.