Home completions up 0.1% in Poland in Q1 2023: stats office

Builders in Poland completed 0.1 percent more homes in the first quarter of this year than in the same period in 2022, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) has reported.

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Around 54,900 housing units were completed nationwide between the start of January and the end of March, the office said.

It added that the number of housing starts in the first quarter of this year, at around 38,600 in total, was 27.6 percent lower than in the same period last year.

According to preliminary data, 54.9 dwellings were completed between January and March 2023, 0.1 % more than in the same period in 2022.https://t.co/F15mVDqD4Y#StatisticsPoland #statistics #housing #ConstructionHousing #building #houses pic.twitter.com/QUHRqsGsfv

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) April 24, 2023

Meanwhile, overall output in Poland’s construction-and-assembly sector decreased by 1.5 percent in March in year-on-year terms, while rising 30.6 percent month on month, the state-run statistics agency also reported.

According to preliminary data, in March 2023, construction and assembly production was 1.5% lower than in March 2022 and by 30.6% higher than in February 2023.https://t.co/W73gtBYUdi#GUS #statistics #economy #production #construction pic.twitter.com/j3yeLpWLF1

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) April 24, 2023

Builders completed around 238,600 new homes in Poland last year, 1.7 percent more than in 2021, Statistics Poland said in a preliminary estimate earlier this year.

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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl