Around 238,600 homes built in Poland in 2022: stats office

Builders completed around 238,600 new homes in Poland last year, 1.7 percent more than in 2021, the country’s statistics office has reported.

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Meanwhile, the number of housing starts throughout 2022, at around 200,300, was 27.8 percent lower than a year earlier, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said in a preliminary estimate.

GUS: Liczba mieszkań, których budowę rozpoczęto spadła o 27,8% r: r w 2022 r. https://t.co/jq2NYe612E

— Forsal.pl (@forsalpl) January 23, 2023

Overall output in Poland’s construction-and-assembly sector decreased by 0.8 percent in December in year-on-year terms, while growing by 17.3 percent month on month, the state-run statistics agency reported.

According to preliminary data, in December 2022, construction output (at constant prices) was 0.8% lower (YoY) and 17.3% higher than in November 2022. https://t.co/dAedWFdbXv#StatisticsPoland #statistics #construction pic.twitter.com/x6olUQ1eRE

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) January 23, 2023

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a policy speech in November 2019 that his government would step up efforts to spur housing construction, mentioning a target of at least 200,000 new homes a year.

According to a study that year, Poland was building the largest number of new dwellings in Central Europe, but not enough to meet demand.

There is still a shortage of around 2 million housing units in Poland, according to some real estate experts.

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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl, forsal.pl, money.pl