Over 200,000 homes built in Poland in 2019: stats office

Builders in Poland completed 207,200 new homes last year, 12 percent more than in 2018, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) has reported.

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At the same time, the number of housing starts throughout 2019 was 6.9 percent higher than a year earlier, the office said on Tuesday.

According to the preliminary data, 207.2 thous. #dwellings were completed in #Poland in the period of January-December 2019, i.e. by 12.0% more than a year before.

More: https://t.co/YqsdeMqPbX#StatisticsPoland #statistics #ResidentialConstruction #construction #home #house pic.twitter.com/p3Ex6V8xW4

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) January 21, 2020

Meanwhile, overall output in Poland’s construction-and-assembly sector fell by 3.3 percent in December in year-on-year terms, while growing by 23.7 percent month on month, the state-run statistics agency reported.

In December of 2019, the value of #construction and #assembly#production in constant prices decreased by 3.3% YoY and was 23.7%
higher as compared to November 2019.https://t.co/zDtwH3XkvR#statistics #StatisticsPoland #IndexNumberOfProduction pic.twitter.com/FoILHXKJal

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) January 21, 2020

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a policy speech in parliament in November 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 recent study, Poland is building the largest number of new dwellings in Central Europe, but not enough to meet demand.

There is still a shortage of around 2.1 million housing units in Poland, according to estimates by real estate experts HRE Think Tank.

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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl