New construction of residential buildings. Started dwellings, 2017:
64 000 new dwellings started in new construction during 2017
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2018-02-19 9.30
Preliminary 2017 figures show that the construction of roughly 64 000 dwellings began in new buildings. This is an increase of 8 percent compared with 2016, when construction of 59 518 dwellings started.
Dwellings in multi-dwelling buildings provided the largest contribution to the increase; in 2017, construction of 50 750 dwellings was started, up 9 percent from the same period in 2016. Approximately 51 percent of these new apartments are rental dwellings.
In one- or two-dwelling buildings, construction of 13 250 dwellings was started, almost as many as in the same period in 2016.
The 2017 figures on new construction have been adjusted upwards by 4 percent, which is the reporting delay for the last year.
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.
Next publishing will be
Definitive figures for 2017 will be published on 2018-05-07 at 09:30.
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