The total area of residential buildings for which construction permits were issued (new construction) in January-March 2025 increased by 53.4% compared to the same period in 2024, reaching 1 million 409.8 thousand square meters, according to the State Statistics Service (Gosstat).
According to the statistics agency, in January-March 2025, the total area of new construction of apartment buildings increased by 54% compared to last year, to 1 million 360.2 thousand square meters.
The number of apartments registered for construction in the first quarter of 2025 reached 22,700, which is 36% more than in the first quarter of 2024. Of these, the number of apartments registered in apartment buildings increased by 64.4% to 16,200.
According to State Statistics Service data, the Kyiv region led in terms of new housing construction in January-March 2025, with 594,600 square meters, which is 4.3 times higher than in January-March last year. At the same time, 7,700 apartments were registered in multi-apartment buildings in the capital, and 1,500 in single-family homes.
Significant volumes of new housing construction were also recorded in the Lviv region – 248,000 square meters (2,200 apartments in multi-apartment buildings and 848 in single-family homes), which is 15.8% higher than last year.
In Kyiv, in the first quarter of 2025, the total area of new housing construction increased by 17% to 145,300 square meters (a total of 1,700 apartments).
The State Statistics Service reminds that the figures do not include territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation and parts of territories where hostilities are ongoing (or have been ongoing).
As reported, the total area of new housing construction in Ukraine in 2024 decreased by 7.2% compared to 2023, to 3.9 million square meters, while in 2023 it amounted to 4.2 million square meters, in 2022 – 6.67 million square meters, and in 2021 – 12.7 million square meters.
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