The total area of residential buildings for which a notice of commencement of construction work (new construction) was registered in 2024 decreased by 7.2% compared to 2023, to 3.9 million square meters, the State Statistics Service (Ukrstat) reported.
According to the statistics agency, in January-December 2024, the total area of new construction of apartment buildings decreased by 8.6% year-on-year to 3 million 684.2 thousand square meters, while the area of single-family houses increased by 19.4% to 196.5 thousand square meters. The total area of new construction of collective housing also increased by 3.2 times, to 22.6 thousand square meters, which is the highest figure since 2019.
The number of apartments declared at the start of construction increased by 3.7% to 69.3 thousand, while the number of declared apartments in apartment buildings decreased by 11.4% compared to 2023 and amounted to 40.9 thousand square meters.
Lviv region became the leader in terms of new housing construction in 2024, with 793.2 thousand square meters, which is 8.9% less than in the previous year.
In Kyiv in 2024, the total area of new housing construction increased by 12% by 2023 to 335.6 thousand square meters, in the Kyiv region – by 3.3% to 636.3 thousand square meters.
The State Statistics Service also recorded high figures in Zakarpattia region (+44.6%, up to 370.2 thousand sq m), Ivano-Frankivsk region (minus 27%, up to 342.6 thousand sq m), Vinnytsia region (+36.7%, up to 315.1 thousand sq m). In other regions of Ukraine, the volume of new construction last year amounted to less than 200 thousand square meters.
The State Statistics Service reminds that the figures exclude the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation and part of the territories where military operations are ongoing (or have been ongoing). As reported, the total area of new housing construction in 2023 amounted to 4.2 million square meters, in 2022 – 6.67 million square meters, in 2021 – 12.7 million square meters.
