The total area of residential buildings for which permits for construction works (new construction) were issued, at the end of January-June 2024 decreased by 7.7% compared to the same period of 2023 – to 2 million 45.5 thousand square meters, reported the State Statistics Service (Gosstat).
According to the statistical department, in January-June 2024, the total area of new construction of apartment buildings decreased by 8.7% compared to last year – to 1.96 million square meters. m. The number of apartments in apartment buildings declared at the start of construction decreased by 13.1% and amounted to 21.7 thousand.
According to the State Statistics Committee, the most new housing in the first half of the year was announced in Kyiv region: the total area of new housing construction amounted to 383 thousand square meters (8.3 thousand apartments).
Significant volumes of new housing were also declared in Lviv region – 327.6 thousand sq. m (4.7 thousand apartments), as well as in Ivano-Frankivsk region – 217.4 thousand sq. m (3.6 apartments). m (3.6 thousand apartments), Vinnytsia – 213.8 thousand sq. m (3.4 thousand apartments), Zakarpattya – 143.4 thousand sq. m (2.1 thousand apartments) and Khmelnytskyi oblasts – 121.1 thousand sq. m (1.8 thousand apartments).
In Kiev in January-June 2024, the total area of new housing construction amounted to 187.9 thousand square meters (1.5 thousand apartments).
The State Statistics Service reminds that the figures are given without taking into account the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation and part of the territories where hostilities are (were) conducted. As reported, the total area of new housing construction in 2023 decreased by 37% to 4.2 million square meters, while in 2022 amounted to 6.67 million square meters, in 2021 – 12.7 million square meters.
