Press Building permits for dwellings between January and April 2019: -1.3% on a year earlier

Number of building permits increased only for single-family houses

Press release No. 232 of 19 June 2019

WIESBADEN – Between January and April 2019, building permits were issued for constructing a total of 105,800 dwellings in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a 1.3% decline of building permits year on year. The permits referred both to new buildings and to work on existing buildings.

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

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