RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PERMITS: Q4/2022
Building permits are authorisations to initiate new building projects. The objective of these statistics is to indicate the future development of construction activity in terms of the number of approved new dwellings.
Main points
● During the last quarter of 2022, 357 building permits for a total of 2,064 new dwellings were approved (Map 1 and Chart 1).
● The number of approved new dwellings increased by 33.2 per cent when compared to the same quarter of the previous year (Table 1). Dwellings approved in Malta and Gozo and Comino increased by 35.0 per cent and 26.5 per cent respectively.
● Apartments made up 68.7 per cent of the total number of approved new dwellings (Chart 2).
● The highest number of approved new dwellings (203) was registered in Marsaskala (Chart 3).
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