Home completions down 1.4% in Poland in Q1 2026: stats office

Builders in Poland completed 1.4 percent fewer homes in the first quarter of this year than in the same period in 2025, the country's statistics office has reported.

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Around 45,200 housing units were completed nationwide between the start of January and the end of March, the Statistics Poland (GUS) office said.

It added that the number of housing starts in the first quarter of this year, at around 49,400 in total, was 11.4 percent lower than in the same period last year.

In Q1 2026, 45.2 thousand dwellings were completed (-1,4% YoY), and the average floor area of a newly completed dwelling was 93.1m2.

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Meanwhile, overall output in Poland's construction-and-assembly sector inched up 0.4 percent in March year on year, while rising 2.1 percent month on month, the state-run statistics agency also reported.

After adjusting for seasonal factors, it said construction-and-assembly output was 2.1 percent lower than in March 2025 but 6.2 percent higher than in February 2026.

According to preliminary data construction and assembly production was in March 2026 higher by 0.4% compared to March 2025. Excluding the impact of seasonal factors, there was it decrease by 2.1% compared to March 2025.

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Builders completed around 208,400 new homes in Poland last year, 4.1 percent more than in 2024, Statistics Poland said in an estimate last month.

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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl