Press release No. 541 of 16 December 2022
- Number of building permits for dwellings issued from January to October 2022 down 4.7% from the same period of the previous year
- Building permits for new construction issued from January to October 2022: -15.9% for single-family houses, +2.1% for multi-family houses
WIESBADEN - In October 2022, the construction of 25,399 dwellings was permitted in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of 14.2%, or 4,198 building permits, compared with October 2021. The construction of a total 297,453 dwellings was permitted from January to October 2022. That was a decrease of 4.7%, or 14,564 dwellings, from the same period a year earlier (January to October 2021: 312,017). The results include building permits for both dwellings in new buildings and new dwellings in existing buildings.
