Increase in both Area (3.7%) and Value (13.8%)
The Statistical Office announces that the number of building permits issued by municipal authorities and provincial administrations in March 2022 amounted to 642. The total value of these permits reached €209.7 million and the total area was 176.7 thousand square meters. With these permits, 962 residential units are planned to be built.
In the period January - March 2022, 1,951 building permits were issued, compared to 1,897 in the same period of the previous year, an increase of 2.8%. The total value of these permits increased by 13.8% and the total floor area by 3.7%. The number of housing units increased by 4.4%.
Building permits are an important indicator of future activity in the construction sector.
| Table 1 |
[TR] [TD]
Project category
[/TD] [TD]Number Permits
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]
Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]March 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022/ Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]444
[/TD] [TD]1.335
[/TD] [TD]1.362
[/TD] [TD]-2.0
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]97
[/TD] [TD]300
[/TD] [TD]271
[/TD] [TD]10,7
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]39
[/TD] [TD]123
[/TD] [TD]107
[/TD] [TD]15,0
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Division of Building Plots
[/TD] [TD]40
[/TD] [TD]144
[/TD] [TD]124
[/TD] [TD]16,1
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Road Construction
[/TD] [TD]22
[/TD] [TD]49
[/TD] [TD]33
[/TD] [TD]48,5
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]
Total
[/TD] [TD]642
[/TD] [TD]1.951
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]1.897
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]2,8
[/TD] [/TR]
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Table 2 |
[TR] [TD]
Project Category
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]Area (m²)
[/TD] [TD]Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mar 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022/ Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]162.371
[/TD] [TD]453,039
[/TD] [TD]452,930
[/TD] [TD]0.0
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]13,758
[/TD] [TD]69,106
[/TD] [TD]51.227
[/TD] [TD]34.9
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]591
[/TD] [TD]2,257
[/TD] [TD]1.371
[/TD] [TD]64.6
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]176,720
[/TD] [TD]524,402
[/TD] [TD]505.528
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]3,7
[/TD] [/TR]
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Table 3 |
[TR] [TD]
Project Category
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]Value (€000's)
[/TD] [TD]Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]March 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022/ Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]178.375
[/TD] [TD]476,391
[/TD] [TD]444,267
[/TD] [TD]7.2
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]17,816
[/TD] [TD]79.167
[/TD] [TD]50,377
[/TD] [TD]57.1
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]6,004
[/TD] [TD]28,031
[/TD] [TD]24.673
[/TD] [TD]13.6
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Land Division
[/TD] [TD]6.338
[/TD] [TD]17.247
[/TD] [TD]8,317
[/TD] [TD]107.4
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Road Construction
[/TD] [TD]1.204
[/TD] [TD]2,527
[/TD] [TD]2,333
[/TD] [TD]8.3
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]209.737
[/TD] [TD]
603,363
[/TD] [TD]529.967
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]13,8
[/TD] [/TR]
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Table 4 |
[TR] [TD]
Residential Buildings
[/TD] [/TD] [TD] [TD]Number of Residential Units
[/TD] [TD]Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mar 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Mar 2022/ Jan-Mar 2021
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Single Family Residential
[/TD] [TD]282
[/TD] [TD]843
[/TD] [TD]814
[/TD] [TD]3,6
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Duplexes
[/TD] [TD]92
[/TD] [TD]246
[/TD] [TD]217
[/TD] [TD]13,4
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential apartment buildings
[/TD] [TD]533
[/TD] [TD]1.300
[/TD] [TD]1.302
[/TD] [TD]-0.2
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mixed multifamily
[/TD] [TD]55
[/TD] [TD]114
[/TD] [TD]65
[/TD] [TD]75,4
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]962
[/TD] [TD]2.503
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]2.398
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]4,4
[/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
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