Residential construction in the period of January-October 2018
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In the period of first ten 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-October of 2018, 146.0 thous. dwellings were completed, i.e. by 3.1% more than the year before. Investors of two main forms of construction on the housing market, i.e. developers and private investors completed respectively 86.9 thous. dwellings and 54.6 thous. dwellings, i.e. by 5.2% and 0.1% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year. The share of these forms of construction amounted to 96.9% of the total number of dwellings completed in the period of ten months of 2018 (of which developers 59.5% and private investors 37.4%). More dwellings, in comparison with January-October of 2017, were also completed in the cooperative construction (2.1 thous. dwellings against 1.9 thous.) whereas less dwellings in other forms of construction (the public building society, the municipal and the company construction)
2.4 thous. dwellings, i.e. by 7.1% less than the year before.
