According to FORDAQ, from January to April 2019, the construction of a total of 105,800 apartments was approved in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this was 1.3% fewer building permits than in the same period of the previous year. The permits applied to new buildings as well as to construction works on existing buildings.
From January to April 2019, around 92,000 apartments were approved for newly constructed residential buildings. This was 1.4% or 1,300 apartments less than in the same period of the previous year. Only the number of building permits for single-family homes has risen (+ 2.2%). In contrast, the number of building permits for two-family houses fell by 5.2%, while the number of approved multi-family houses fell by 0.5%.
Construction work on existing buildings fell by 2.7% to 12,025.
In the case of the new non-residential buildings, which were approved from January to April 2019, the area under construction fell by 7.8 million cubic meters compared to the same period of the previous year, to -10.9%.
