Residential construction in the period of January-December 2018
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In 2018 more dwellings were placed into use 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-December of 2018, 184.8 thous. dwellings were completed, i.e. by 3.6% more than the year before. Investors of two main forms of construction on the housing market, i.e. developers and private investors completed respectively 111.6 thous. dwellings (by 6.2% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year) and 66.7 thous. dwellings (i.e. by 1.4% less). The share of these forms of construction amounted to 96.5% of the total number of dwellings completed in 2018 (of which developers built 60.4% and private investors 36.1% of dwellings). More dwellings than the year before were completed in the cooperative construction (3.0 thous. dwellings against 2.3 thous.). In other forms of construction (the public building society, the municipal and the company construction) altogether 3.5 thous. dwellings were completed, i.e. by 6.0% more than the year before.
