Home completions down 3.3% y/y in Poland in first four months of 2025

Builders in Poland completed 3.3 percent fewer homes in the first four months of this year than in the same period in 2024, the country’s statistics office has reported.

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Around 62,200 housing units were completed nationwide between the start of January and the end of April, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.

It added that the number of housing starts in January, February, March and April, at around 75,800 in total, was 6.8 percent lower than in the same period last year.

In the period January-April 2025, 3.3% fewer dwellings were completed than in the previous year. There was also a decrease in the number of dwellings for which permits were issued or notifications with a construction project were made. https://t.co/sywZzGCMum #StatsPoland pic.twitter.com/03EJt0BVSA

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) May 22, 2025

Meanwhile, overall output in Poland’s construction-and-assembly sector fell by 4.2 percent in April in year-on-year terms, while decreasing by 2.9 percent month on month, the state-run statistics agency also reported on Thursday.

Acc. to preliminary data construction and assembly production in April 2025 was lower by 4.2% than in April last year. After eliminating the seasonal factors, a decrease amounted to 2.9%. https://t.co/aqNnagCRmj#StatisticsPoland #statistics #economy #production #construction pic.twitter.com/VHHMXALGk4

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) May 22, 2025

Builders completed around 200,400 new homes in Poland last year, a decrease of 9.4 percent from 2023, Statistics Poland said in an estimate earlier this year.

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Source: IAR, PAP, stat.gov.pl