Polish home building slows amid pandemic

Builders in Poland completed 2.8 percent fewer homes in the first four months of this year than in the same period in 2019, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Friday, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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A total of 63,200 housing units were completed nationwide between the start of January and the end of April, the office said.

It added that the number of housing starts from January to April, at 66,200, was 12.7 percent lower than in the same period last year.

According to the preliminary data, 63.2 thous. #dwellings were completed in the period of January-April 2020, i.e. by 2.8% less than a year ago.

More: https://t.co/kehJjMDDOz#StatisticsPoland #statistics #ResidentialConstruction #construction #home #house #apartment pic.twitter.com/MxRP2rUUL9

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) May 22, 2020

Meanwhile, overall output in Poland’s construction-and-assembly sector fell by 0.9 percent in April in year-on-year terms, while increasing by 2.3 percent month on month, the state-run statistics agency reported.

In April 2020, the value of #construction and #assembly #production in constant prices decreased by 0.9% YoY and was 2.3% higher as compared to March 2020.https://t.co/LCvI4uMMOx#statistics #StatisticsPoland #IndexNumberOfProduction pic.twitter.com/oNz2OXH32g

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) May 22, 2020

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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl