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New dwellings still up
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Building statistics, July 2011

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New dwellings still up

Preliminary figures show a marked increase in new dwellings in January-July 2011, compared with the same period last year. The number of new dwellings increased by almost 40 per cent.

Started non-residential utility floor space. Unadjusted and trend. January 1995-July 2011

Number of dwellings started. Unadjusted and trend. January 1995-July 2011

A total of 15 640 new dwellings were given building starts in January-July; an increase of 4 354 dwellings compared with same period last year. In all, building starts were given for 5.2 million square metres of utility floor space; an increase of 5.6 per cent.

Smaller changes for other buildings

A total of 2.2 million square metres of utility floor space for industrial buildings were started hitherto. This is 12 per cent less compared with the same period in 2010.

Holiday properties (cottages), private garages and other non-industrial activities similarly increased by 0.6 per cent.

In all, building starts of utility floor space for other than dwellings decreased by 8.6 per cent.

Building work started. Preliminary figures
  July Changes in
per cent 		January-July Changes in
per cent
  20101   2011   20101   2011
Number of dwellings 1 295 1 697 31.0 11 286 15 640 38.6
             
Utility floor space, 1 000 m2            
Total  582.0    541.1 -7.0   4 953.7   5 230.1 5.6
             
Dwellings  206.7  246.2 19.1 1 629.4 2 190.6 34.4
             
Other buildings  375.3  294.8 -21.4 3 324.3 3 039.5 -8.6
Industrial buildings2  253.1  194.4 -23.2 2 488.6 2 198.4 -11.7
Holiday property(cottages), private garages and other non-industrial activities  122.2  100.4 -17.8  835.7  841.2 0.6
1  The figures for all months from January 2008 until December 2010 where revised 11 March 2011.
2  Also Includes building for education, health and social work and public administration.

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Registered building permissions

Figures for buildings in the building statistics rely on dates for when permits are registered by the municipality in the data register (Matrikkelen). A building permit does not always mean that construction will be started at once. Especially in low conjunctures it might be that construction projects are not realised, or may be postponed after a building permit has been granted. When the building activity trend turns from a low to a high level, and vice versa, this could affect the interpretation of the statistics.

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