Residential construction in the period of January-July 2018
A A AIn the period of first seven months of 2018 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-July of 2018, 98469 dwellings were completed, i.e. by 3.0% more than the year before. Among two main forms of constructions on the housing market better results were recorded by developers who completed 57708 dwellings, i.e. by 4.7% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year and private investors 38473 dwellings, i.e. by 0.9% more than in the period I-VII of 2018. The share of these forms of construction amounted to 97.7% of the total number of dwellings completed in the period of seven months of 2018 (of which developers 58.6% and private investors 39.1%). More dwellings, in comparison with January-July of 2017, were also completed by the housing cooperatives (1081 dwellings against 912), in the public building society construction 533 dwellings (against 895 dwellings the year before), in the municipal construction 594 dwellings (against 533) and in the company construction 80 dwellings (against 61).