Increase in Area (3.1%) and decrease in Value (-8.2%)
The Statistical Office announces that the number of building permits issued by municipal authorities and provincial administrations in October 2021 amounted to 663. The total value of these permits reached €186.0 million and the total area reached 173.7 thousand square meters. These permits are expected to be used to build 801 residential units.
In the period January - October 2021, 6,671 building permits were issued, compared to 5,689 in the same period last year, an increase of 17.3%. The total value of these permits decreased by -8.2% and the total floor area increased by 3.1%. The number of housing units increased by 10.9%.
Building permits are an important indicator of future activity in the construction sector.
| Table 1 |
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [/TD]
[TR] [TD]
Category Project Category
[/TD] [TD]Number of Permits
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Oct 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Oct
2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Oct 2020
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]Jan-Oct 2021/
Jan-Oct 2020
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]463
[/TD] [TD]4.670
[/TD] [TD]4,118
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
13.4
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]97
[/TD] [TD]1.049
[/TD] [TD]802
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
30,8
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]41
[/TD] [TD]381
[/TD] [TD]252
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
51,2
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Division of Building Plots
[/TD] [TD]50
[/TD] [TD]447
[/TD] [TD]387
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
15,5
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Road Construction
[/TD] [TD]12
[/TD] [TD]124
[/TD] [TD]130
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
-4,6
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]663
[/TD] [TD]6.671
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]5.689
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]17,3
[/TD] [/TR]
| Table 2 | |||||
| Project Category | Area (m²) | [TD] Percentage Change (%) | |||
| Oct 2021 | Jan-Oct 2021 |
Jan-Oct 2020
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]Jan-Oct 2021/
Jan-Oct 2020
[/TD][TR] [TD]
Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]156.792
[/TD] [TD]1,625,585
[/TD] [TD]1,521.451
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
6.8
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]15,824
[/TD] [TD]294,780
[/TD] [TD]327.687
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
-10.0
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]1,046
[/TD] [TD]6,431
[/TD] [TD]19.148
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
-66.4
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]173,662
[/TD] [TD]1,926,796
[/TD] [TD]1,868.286
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]3,1
[/TD] [/TR] Table 3 Project Category Value (€000's) Percentage Change (%) Oct 2021 Jan-Oct 2021 Jan-Oct 2020 Jan-Oct 2021/ Jan-Oct 2020 [TR] [TD] Residential Buildings 160.229 1,667,144 1,673.920 -0.4 Non-Residential Buildings 17,218 276,517 404.794 -31.7 Civil Engineering Projects 3,669 72.434 113,043 -35.9 Land division 3.978 34.962 35.030 -0.2 Road Construction 889 7.829 16,420 -52.3 Total 185.983 2,058,886 2,243.207 -8,2
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| Table 4 | |||||
| Residential Buildings |
Number of Residential Units |
[TD] [/TD] [/TD] [TD]
Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TD][TR] [TD]
Oct 2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Oct
2021
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Oct 2020
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]Jan-Oct 2021/
Jan-Oct 2020
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Single-family houses
[/TD] [TD]231
[/TD] [TD]2.878
[/TD] [TD]2.510
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
14.7
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Duplexes
[/TD] [TD]81
[/TD] [TD]787
[/TD] [TD]763
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
3,1
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential apartment buildings
[/TD] [TD]462
[/TD] [TD]4.545
[/TD] [TD]3.967
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
14.6
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mixed multifamily
[/TD] [TD]27
[/TD] [TD]338
[/TD] [TD]469
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
-27,9
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]801
[/TD] [TD]8.548
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]7.709
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]10,9
[/TD] [/TR]
METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Purpose and coverage
The purpose is to collect basic data concerning residential and non-residential buildings as well as other building activities such as civil engineering projects, 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.
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