Home completions up 1.8% in Poland in first eight months of 2022: stats office

Builders in Poland completed 1.8 percent more homes in the first eight months of this year than in the same period in 2021, the country’s statistics office has reported.

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Around 145,500 housing units were completed nationwide between the start of January and the end of August, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said on Wednesday.

It added that the number of housing starts from January to August, at around 148,900 in total, was 23.4 percent lower than in the same period last year.

According to the preliminary data, 145.5 thousand dwellings were completed in the period of Jan-uary-August 2022, i.e. 1.8% more than in the same period in 2021.https://t.co/eZv7x4ZvGn#StatisticsPoland #statistics #dwellings #ResidentalConstruction pic.twitter.com/Mu9L8f4OOl

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) September 21, 2022

Meanwhile, overall output in Poland’s construction-and-assembly sector increased by 6.1 percent in August in year-on-year terms, while rising 5.1 percent month on month, Statistics Poland also reported.

According to preliminary data, in August 2022, construction output (at constant prices) was 6.1 per cent higher (YoY) and 5.1 per cent higher than in July 2022. https://t.co/OkBTJCmhKR#GUS #statistics #construction pic.twitter.com/FcdJQyQWGr

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) September 21, 2022

Around 235,000 new homes were built in Poland last year, 6.3 percent more than in 2020, according to the statistical office.

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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl