Increase in both Area (10.1%) and Value (3.4%)
The Statistical Office announces that the number of building permits issued by municipal authorities and provincial administrations in January 2022 amounted to 535. The total value of these permits reached €165.5 million and the total area reached 158.0 thousand square meters. With these permits, 640 residential units are planned to be built.
Compared to the same month last year, the number of building permits issued increased by 8.3%. The total value of these permits increased by 3.4% and the total floor area by 10.1%. The number of housing units decreased by -8.8%.
Building permits are an important indicator of future activity in the construction sector.
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Table 1 |
[TR] [TD]
Project category
[/TD] [TD]Number of permits
[/TD] [TD]Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Jan2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Dec 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan 2022/
Jan 2021
Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]361
[/TD] [TD]374
[/TD] [TD]5.753
[/TD] [TD]-3.5
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]83
[/TD] [TD]65
[/TD] [TD]1.254
[/TD] [TD]27.7
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]35
[/TD] [TD]23
[/TD] [TD]443
[/TD] [TD]52,2
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Division of Building Plots
[/TD] [TD]46
[/TD] [TD]29
[/TD] [TD]547
[/TD] [TD]58,6
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Road Construction
[/TD] [TD]10
[/TD] [TD]3
[/TD] [TD]167
[/TD] [TD]233,3
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]535
[/TD] [TD]494
[/TD] [TD]8.164
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]8,3
[/TD] [/TR]
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Table 2 |
[TR] [TD]
Project Category
[/TD] [TD]Area (m²)
[/TD] [TD]
Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]
Jan 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Dec2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan 2022/Jan 2021
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]123.661
[/TD] [TD]133,765
[/TD] [TD]1,999.466
[/TD] [TD]-7.6
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]34,008
[/TD] [TD]8,985
[/TD] [TD]338.522
[/TD] [TD]278.5
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]325
[/TD] [TD]808
[/TD] [TD]8.194
[/TD] [TD]-59.8
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]157,994
[/TD] [TD]143,558
[/TD] [TD]2,346.182
[/TD] [TD]10,1
[/TD] [/TR] Table 3 [TR] [TD] Project Category Value (€000's) Percentage Change (%) Jan 2022 Jan 2021 Jan-Dec 2021 Jan 2022/Jan 2021 Residential Buildings 126.555 138,495 2,033,958 -8.6 Non-Residential Buildings 32,316 10.834 321,334 198.3 Civil Engineering Projects 1,885 8,672 88.743 -78.3 Land Division 4.311 1.944 42.975 121.8 Road Construction 446 147 10.757 203.4 Total 165.513 160,092 2,497.767 3,4
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Table 4 |
[TR] [TD]
Residential Buildings
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]Number Residential Units
[/TD] [TD]Percentage
Change (%)
Jan 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Dec 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan 2022/
Jan 2021
Single-family houses
[/TD] [TD]243
[/TD] [TD]206
[/TD] [TD]3.553
[/TD] [TD]18.0
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Duplexes
[/TD] [TD]62
[/TD] [TD]47
[/TD] [TD]930
[/TD] [TD]31,9
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential apartment buildings
[/TD] [TD]298
[/TD] [TD]405
[/TD] [TD]5.590
[/TD] [TD]-26.4
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mixed multifamily
[/TD] [TD]37
[/TD] [TD]44
[/TD] [TD]433
[/TD] [TD]-15,9
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]640
[/TD] [TD]702
[/TD] [TD]10.506
[/TD] [TD]-8,8
[/TD] [/TR] [/TR]
METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Purpose and coverage
The purpose is to collect basic data relating to residential and non-residential buildings and other building activities such as civil engineering works, land division and road construction, by province (urban and rural areas). For each category of project, information is compiled on the number of permits issued, the area and value of the project and the number of housing units planned to be built.
All building permits issued by local government authorities, i.e. town halls, provincial administrations of the Ministry of Interior and the Community Council of Agios Tychonas, are covered.
Data collection
The Statistical Service receives on a monthly basis from all local government authorities copies of all building permit forms issued by them. The information contained in the forms is appropriately coded by the Statistics Office to produce the statistics. The EU Classification of Construction (CC) is used to categorise the different building projects.
For more information:
Statistical Office Portal, Construction sub-topic CYSTAT-DB (Database) Predefined Tables (Excel)
Contact
Achilleas Moustakas: Tel. amoustakas@cystat.mof.gov.cy
(MB/IK)
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