Housing construction in the period of January-May 2017
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In the period of five 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-May of 2017, 63903 dwellings were completed, i.e. by 3.0% more compared with 2016, in which an increase was recorded by 18.1%. In the period of five 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 106841, i.e. by 38.3% more than in 2016 (against an increase by 10.3% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 83672, i.e. by 21.7% (against an increase by 4.3% the year before).
In the period January-May of 2017 private investors constructed 32994 dwellings, i.e. by 7.6% more than the year before (against a drop by 4.9% last year) which constituted 51.6% of the total number of dwellings completed. Compared to January-May 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 46126 dwellings, i.e. by 26.5% (against an increase by 10.8% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 39955 dwellings, i.e. by 19.1% (against an increase by 7.8% the year before).
Developers, in the period of five months of 2017, completed 29658 dwellings (which constituted 46.4% of the total number of dwellings completed), i.e. by 0.1% more than in 2016, when an increase was recorded by 55.1%. Investors who build for sale or rent received building permits for 58216 dwellings, i.e. by 50.4% more than the year before (when an increase was recorded by 8.1%). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun increased to 41834 dwellings, i.e. by 25.1% (against a drop by 1.2% the year before).
Housing cooperatives in the period of five months of 2017 completed 714 dwellings against 955 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings in which construction has begun decreased to 943 against 970 dwellings the year before while the number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted increased to 744 against 459 dwellings the year before.
Other investors (municipal, public building society and company construction) in the period of five months of 2017 completed 537 dwellings against 797 dwellings the year before, of which in municipal construction - 323 dwellings were completed against 462 dwellings last year, in public building society construction – 199 dwellings against 313 dwellings and in company construction – 15 dwellings against 22 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted increased to 1755 against 1628 dwellings the year before and the number of dwellings in which construction has begun increased – to 940 against 781 dwellings last year.
In the period of five months of 2017, an increase in the number of dwellings completed was recorded in eleven voivodships, including the most substantial one in Pomorskie – by 35.1% (5348 dwellings), Wielkopolskie – by 20.7% (6788) and Warmińsko-Mazurskie – by 19.6 % (2060). A decrease in the number of dwellings completed was recorded in five voivodships, of which the highest in Podkarpackie – by 14.3% (2612), Dolnośląskie – by 9.8% (5931) and Świętokrzyskie – by 8.8% (1173). There were 13395 dwellings completed in Mazowieckie vivodship i.e. by 8.1% less than the year before.
In the period of five months of 2017, an increase in the number of dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project was recorded in fifteen voivodships, of which the highest in Zachodniopomorskie - to 6225 (3493 the year before), Warmińsko-Mazurskie – to 3143 dwellings (1863 the year before) and Małopolskie – to 11212 dwellings (6759 the year before) A decrease in the number of permits or registrations with a construction project was recorded only in Opolskie voivodship – by 28.2%. There were 23185 dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project in Mazowieckie voivodship i.e. by 43.5% more than the year before.
An increase in the number of dwellings in which construction has begun in January- May of 2017 was noticed in fifteen voivodships, of which the highest in Warmińsko-Mazurskie - to 2304 dwellings (1348 the year before), Pomorskie to 9029 dwellings (5716 the year before) and Podlaskie – to 1978 dwellings (1356 the year before). A drop in the number of dwellings in which construction has begun was recorded only in Opolskie voivodship – by 4.3%. There were 15714 dwellings in which construction has begun in Mazowieckie voivodship i.e. by 12.2% more than the year before.
Residence data – subject to change upon developing quarterly reports
