In the period of nine months of 2015 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-September of 2015, 101508 dwellings were completed, i.e. by 1.4% more compared with the same period of 2014, in which a drop was recorded by 1.9%. In the period of nine months of 2015, the number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project amounted to 138097, i.e. by 14.8% more than in corresponding period of 2014 (against an increase by 14.8% the year before). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun increased to 128059, i.e. by 11.8% (against an increase by 17.0% the year before).

The highest share (57.0%) in the total number of dwellings completed was attributed to private investors who in the period of January-September of 2015 constructed 57826 dwellings, i.e. by 4.3% more than the year before. Compared to January-September of 2014, 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 66933 dwellings, i.e. by 13.6% (against a drop by 0.9% the last year). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 62868 dwellings, i.e. by 2.9% (against an increase by 3.7% the year before).

Developers, in the period of nine months of 2015, completed 40521 dwellings (which constituted 39.9% of the total number of dwellings completed), i.e. by 3.2% more than in the corresponding period of 2014, when an increase was recorded by 4.4%. Investors who build for sale or rent received building permits for 68706 dwellings, i.e. by 17.1% more than the year before (when an increase was recorded by 41.7%). The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 62798 dwellings, i.e. by 23.7% (against an increase by 39.5% the year before).

Housing cooperatives in the period of nine months of 2015 completed 1183 dwellings against 2544 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings for which building permits have been granted increased slightly - to 1033 dwellings against 965 dwellings the year before. The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased to 925 dwellings against 792 dwellings the year before.

Other investors (municipal, public building society construction and company construction) in the period of nine months of 2015 completed 1978 dwellings against 2934 dwellings the year before, of which in municipal construction - 880 dwellings were completed against 1453 dwellings the last year, in public building society construction – 800 dwellings against 1193 dwellings and in company construction – 298 dwellings against 288 dwellings in the corresponding period of 2014. The number of dwellings for which permits have been granted and  in which construction has begun respectively decreased to 1425 dwellings against 1679 dwellings the year before and 1468 dwellings  against 1913 last year.

In the period of nine months of 2015, a decrease in the number of dwellings completed was recorded in seven voivodships, including the most substantial one in Pomorskie – by 27.4%, Podkarpackie – by 19.2% and Lubelskie – by 13.6%. A decrease in the number of dwellings completed was recorded in nine voivodships including the most substantial one in: Świętokrzyskie – by 15.7%, Małopolskie – by 8.6% and Mazowieckie – by 5.8%.

In the period of nine months of 2015, 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 eleven voivodships, of which the highest in: Warmińsko-Mazurskie - by 60.0%, Podlaskie – by 54.8% and Lubelskie – by 48.6%. A decrease in the number of permits or registrations with a construction project was recorded in five voivodships including the highest in: Łódzkie – by 7.7%, Opolskie – by 7.2% and Podkarpackie – by 3.8%. Most of dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project were in Mazowieckie voivodship – 30890 dwellings, i.e. by – 9.1% more than the year before.

An increase in the number of dwellings in which construction has begun  in the period of nine months of 2015 was recorded in eleven voivodships, of which the highest in: Pomorskie – by 33.2%, Zachodniopomorskie – by 29.8% and Dolnośląskie – by 25.7%. A drop in the number of dwellings in which construction has begun was recorded in five voivodships, of which the highest in Świętokrzyskie – by 14.3%, Podkarpackie – by 4.3%  and Łódzkie – by 2.7%. Most of dwellings in which construction has begun were in Mazowieckie – 25973 dwellings, i.e. by – 3.3% more than the year before.