Housing construction in the period of January-March 2017
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In the period of three months of 2017 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-March of 2017, 40344 dwellings were completed, i.e. by 7.8% more compared with 2016, in which an increase was recorded by 18.1%. In the period of three months of 2017 the number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project amounted to 60234, i.e. by 42.8% more than in 2016 (against an increase by 9.7% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 44206, i.e. by 28.9% (against an increase by 7.8% the year before).
In the period January-March of 2017 private investors constructed 20376 dwellings, i.e. by 7.7% more than the year before (against a drop by 3.9% last year) which constituted 50.5% of the total number of dwellings completed. Compared to January-March of 2016, 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 25414 dwellings, i.e. by 32.3% (against an increase by 9.1% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 19875 dwellings, i.e. by 19.0% (against an increase by 12.2% the year before). Developers, in the period of three months of 2017, completed 18954 dwellings (which constituted 47.0% of the total number of dwellings completed), i.e. by 9.4% more than in 2016, when an increase was recorded by 54.9%. Investors who build for sale or rent received building permits for 33165 dwellings, i.e. by 54.8% more than the year before (when an increase was recorded by 5.9%). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun increased to 23191 dwellings, i.e. by 40.7% (against an increase by 0.5% the year before).
