Press Decrease of dwellings permitted from January – May 2017: –7.6%

Press release No. 242 of 13 July 2017

WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the construction of a total of 137,100 dwellings was permitted in Germany from January - May 2017. Compared with the corresponding period of 2016 this is a decrease of 7.6% or 11,300 dwellings.

Basic data and long time series are available in tables Building permits (31111) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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