Housing construction - November 2009

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During the first eleven months of 2009, a total of 143,317 flats were completed (including 6,709 in housing cooperatives, 63,510 in individual construction, 66,016 dwellings built for sale or rent; the remaining 7,082 comprised municipal, company and social rent housing units), which represented growth of o 5.9% relative to the corresponding period of 2008.
A positive development was again experienced by the Dolnoslaskie voivodship, which posted a 26.4% increase in the number of units completed, and by the Malopolskie and Opolskie voivodships, whose housing completions grew by, respectively, 24.9% and 20.7% compared with the first ten months of 2008. In Mazowieckie, which again was the region with the largest number of new residential projects, investors completed 35,107 housing units in the first eleven months of the year. The capital city region was followed by Malopolskie and Pomorskie with, respectively, 17,165 and 13,565 homes completed.
Between January and November 2009, developers obtained permits to construct 57,886 housing units (a decline of 38.9% relative to the corresponding period of the previous year), whereas the number of building permits secured by individual investors fell by 9.5% year on year to 95,031. Throughout the country, in the analysed period, all investors obtained construction permits for 164,195 housing units (a 23.5% decline compared to the same period last year) and commenced work on 134,511 dwellings (down by 19.8%).
In terms of the number of dwellings completed per 1,000 residents, the Mazowieckie region noted 6.7 housing units per 1,000 residents, followed by Pomorskie with a ratio of 6.1. A high ratio of 5.2 was also reported by Malopolskie. Yet again, the lowest ratios were recorded by Swietokrzyskie (1.3) and Opolskie (1.5). The national average stood at 3.8, whereas in January-November 2008, it was 3.5 (and 3.0 in the same period of 2007).

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