In January-September 2024, the total area of residential buildings for which construction permits were issued (new construction) decreased by 6.6% compared to the same period in 2023, to 2 million 962.3 thousand square meters, according to the State Statistics Service (Ukrstat).
According to the statistics agency, in January-September 2024, the total area of new construction of apartment buildings decreased by 8.3% year-on-year to 2.8 million square meters. The number of apartments declared at the start of construction in apartment buildings decreased by 12.2% to 30.9 thousand.
According to the State Statistics Service, the largest number of new housing starts in the first nine months of the year was reported in Lviv region: the total area of new housing construction amounted to 499 thousand square meters (7 thousand apartments).
Significant volumes of new housing were also declared in Kyiv region – 494.8 thousand square meters (11.9 thousand apartments), as well as in Ivano-Frankivsk region – 317.8 thousand square meters (5.3 thousand apartments), Zakarpattia region – 292 thousand square meters (5.3 thousand apartments), Transcarpathian region – 292 thousand square meters (5.3 thousand apartments), and in the city of Kyiv – 292 thousand square meters (5.3 thousand apartments). sq. m. (5.3 thousand apartments). apartments), Transcarpathian – 292.3 thousand sq. m. (3.8 thousand apartments), Vinnytsia – 236.3 thousand sq. m. (4.1 thousand apartments), Khmelnytsky – 141.6 thousand sq. m. (2.3 thousand apartments) and Volyn – 140.7 thousand sq. m. (3 thousand apartments).
In Kyiv in January-September 2024, the total area of new housing construction amounted to 330.3 thousand square meters (2.9 thousand apartments).
The State Statistics Service reminds that the figures exclude the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation and part of the territories where hostilities are ongoing (or have been ongoing).
As reported, the total area of new housing construction in 2023 decreased by 37% to 4.2 million square meters, while in 2022 it amounted to 6.67 million square meters, and in 2021 – 12.7 million square meters.
