Housing construction in the period of January-October 2017
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In the period of ten 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-October of 2017, 139424 dwellings were completed, i.e. by 8.4% more compared with 2016, in which an increase was recorded by 10.6%. In the period of ten 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 213218, i.e. by 22.5% more than in 2016 (when an increase was recorded by 10.5%). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 177125, i.e. by 19.2% (when an increase was recorded by 4.3%).
In the period January-October of 2017 private investors constructed 66070 dwellings (which constituted 47.4% of the total number of dwellings completed), i.e. by 6.0% more than the year before, when a drop was recorded by 3.3%. Compared to January-October 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 97966 dwellings, i.e. by 18.8% (when an increase was recorded by 10.7%). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 84820 dwellings, i.e. by 15.4% (when an increase was recorded by 5.1%).
Developers, in the period of ten months of 2017, completed 68910 dwellings (which constituted 49.4% of the total number of dwellings completed), i.e. by 11.8% more than in 2016, when an increase was recorded by 28.7%. Investors who build for sale or rent received building permits for 109715 dwellings, i.e. by 27.2% more than the year before (when an increase was recorded by 8.1%). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 87311 dwellings, i.e. by 23.0% (against an increase by 1.3% the year before).
Housing cooperatives in the period of ten months of 2017 completed 1872 dwellings against 2152 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted also decreased to 1216 against 1344 the year before while the number of dwellings in which construction has begun increased to 2314 against 1902 dwellings the year before.
Other investors (public building society, municipal, and company construction) in the period of ten months of 2017 completed 2572 dwellings against 2542 dwellings the year before, of which in public building society construction - 1308 dwellings were completed against 1005 dwellings last year, in municipal construction – 1171 dwellings against 1290 dwellings and in company construction – 93 dwellings against 247 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted increased to 4321 against 3972 dwellings the year before and the number of dwellings in which construction has begun increased to 2680 against 2249 dwellings last year.
In the period of ten months of 2017, an increase in the number of dwellings completed was recorded in fourteen voivodships, including the most substantial one in Pomorskie – by 30.9% (12171 dwellings), Kujawsko-Pomorskie – by 25.3% (6108) and Wielkopolskie – by 19.7% (14826). A decrease in the number of dwellings completed was recorded in two voivodships: in Mazowieckie – by 7.2% (28236) and Opolskie – by 1.2% (1372).
In the period of ten 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 thirteen voivodships, of which the highest in Zachodniopomorskie - to 11074 dwellings (7126 the year before), Małopolskie – to 20922 dwellings (15305 the year before) and Dolnośląskie – to 24089 dwellings (18056 the year before) A decrease in the number of permits or registrations with a construction project was recorded in three voivodships: Opolskie – by 6.8%, Świętokrzyskie – by 5.8% and Lubelskie – by 1.8%. There were 44895 dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project in Mazowieckie voivodship i.e. by 26.7% more than the year before.
An increase in the number of dwellings in which construction has begun in January- October of 2017 was noticed in fifteen voivodships, of which the highest in Wielkopolskie - to 21916 dwellings (15736 the year before), Pomorskie - to 17385 dwellings (13039 the year before) and Opolskie – to 2384 dwellings (1849 the year before). A decrease was recorded only in one voivodship: Śląskie – to 11372 dwellings (11547 the year before). There were 35830 dwellings in which construction has begun (31875 the year before) in Mazowieckie voivodship.
