New construction of residential buildings started dwellings, first three quarters 2017:
40 000 new dwellings in multi-dwelling buildings
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2017-11-17 9.30
According to preliminary figures, the construction of roughly 49 800 dwellings began during the first three quarters of 2017. This is an increase of 11 percent compared with the same period in 2016, when the construction of 45 016 dwellings started.
Dwellings in multi-dwelling buildings provided the largest contribution to the significant increase; the construction of 40 100 dwellings started during the first three quarters of the year which is an increase of 13 percent compared with same period in 2016. In one- or two-dwelling buildings, the construction of 9 700 dwellings started, almost as many as with the same period in 2016.
In addition, the conversion of multi-dwelling buildings resulted in 3 100 additional dwellings in 2017, compared with 2 558 dwellings during the same period in 2016.
The 2017 figures for new construction have been adjusted upwards by 9 percent, which is the delay in reporting for the last year. The 2017 figures for conversion have been adjusted upwards by 23 percent.
Definitions and explanations
A dwelling is a room or number of rooms intended for private habitation.
One- or two-dwelling building means detached one- or two-dwelling buildings as well as semi-detached, row and linked buildings.
Multi-dwelling building means buildings with three or more apartments, including balcony access housing.
Conversion refers to changes in the number of dwellings in the building, e.g. by conversion from offices to dwellings, conversion of attics for new dwellings
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Preliminary statistics for 2017 will be published 2018-02-19.
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