Land use

25 February 2021 Building permits between January and November 2020: 59% of dwellings in multi-family houses

Housing and construction are facing an increasing conflict between desired comfort, rising costs and ecological requirements. This is reflected by the data on new residential buildings, the majority of which have been multi-family houses recently. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that among the total of 288,000 dwellings for which building permits were granted from January to November 2020, there will be 169,000 dwellings in multi-family houses. That is a proportion of 59%. Another 109,000 building permits regarded dwellings in single-family and two-family houses - a proportion of 38%.

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