Home completions down 3.2% y/y in Poland in first five months of 2025

Builders in Poland completed 3.2 percent fewer homes in the first five months of this year than in the same period in 2024, the country’s statistics office has reported.

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Around 76,700 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, April and May, at around 94,900 in total, was 6.2 percent lower than in the same period last year.

In January-May 2025, 3.2% 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/Qx2L8S0X5h
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Meanwhile, overall output in Poland’s construction-and-assembly sector fell 2.9 percent in May in year-on-year terms, while increasing by 8.5 percent month on month, the state-run statistics agency also reported last week.

Acc. to preliminary data construction and assembly production in May 2025 was lower by 2.9% than in May last year. After eliminating the seasonal factors, a decrease amounted to 3.8%.https://t.co/UPlXkx6Svy#StatisticsPoland #statistics #economy #production #construction pic.twitter.com/jY2taQ9ke6

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) June 23, 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