Housing commissioning in Ukraine in 2023 increased by 3.8% compared to 2022, to 7 million 380.7 thousand square meters, the State Statistics Service reported.
According to the report, 4 million 276.9 thousand square meters of housing were put into operation in cities in 2023, which is 10% lower than the previous year. In rural areas, 31.6% more housing was commissioned than in 2022 – 3 million 103.8 thousand square meters.
At the same time, 47.2% of the total housing volume was commissioned in single-family houses, 52.6% in houses with two or more apartments, and 0.2% in dormitories.
In total, 89.2 thousand apartments were commissioned last year, which is 3.5% less than in 2022. At the same time, 57.2 thousand apartments were commissioned in cities and 32 thousand apartments in villages.
At the end of 2023, the largest number of housing was commissioned in Kyiv region – 1 million 387.6 thousand square meters (18.8% of the total), but compared to 2022, the figure decreased by 4.8%. Next comes Lviv region – 769.4 thousand sq m (10.4%), exceeding the previous year’s result by 6.8%; Vinnytsia region – 658.5 thousand sq m (8.9%), plus 62.8% by 2022; Ivano-Frankivsk region – 526 thousand sq m (7.1%), plus 6.6%, respectively.
In Kyiv, 1 million 13.8 thousand square meters of housing (13.7%) were commissioned last year, which is 11.6% higher than in 2022.
According to the State Statistics Service, the largest increase in housing commissioning in 2023 was recorded in Kharkiv region, where the figure increased 5 times year-on-year to 260.6 thousand square meters (3.5% of the total).
The growth of housing commissioning compared to the previous year was also recorded in Cherkasy (+78.4%, to 166.8 thousand sq. m.), Donetsk (+52, to 5.5 thousand sq. m.), Dnipropetrovs’k (+29.2%, to 235.1 thousand sq. m.), Sumy (+24.7%, to 52.3 thousand sq. m.), Ternopil (+24.7%, to 52.3 thousand sq. m.), Sumy (+24.7%, to 52.3 thousand sq. m.), Ternopil (+24.7%, to 52.3 thousand sq. m.), and Ternopil (+24.7%, to 52.3 thousand sq. m.) regions. sq. m), Sumy (+24.7%, to 52.3 thousand sq. m) regions. sq. m), Ternopil (+18.3%, to 216.6 thousand sq. m), Zakarpattia (+17.8%, to 364.2 thousand sq. m), Volyn (+15.2%, to 316.2 thousand sq. m), Zaporizhzhia (+12.4%, to 21.5 thousand sq. m) and Chernivtsi (+6.9%, to 235.7 thousand sq. m) regions. Other regions showed a decrease in the volume of housing commissioned.
The data are given taking into account the housing commissioned in accordance with the temporary procedure for commissioning houses built without a building permit, as well as excluding the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation and part of the territory where hostilities are/were conducted, the State Statistics Service reminds.
As reported, at the end of 2022, the commissioning of housing in Ukraine decreased by 37.8% compared to 2021 – to 7 million 110.2 thousand square meters.
