More than 5,600 new homes completed in first three months of the year

As part of the Government’s Housing for All plan, it set a projected housing output of 24,600 for this year. With the number of homes completed in Q1, 22% of this projection has been met so far.

There were more homes built in the first three months of 2022 than in the same period from any other year since the Central Statistics Office first began compiling these statistics in 2011.

New figures published today show that the 5,669 homes completed in January, February and March is 15.1% higher than the homes completed in the first quarter of 2020. It far outstripped the numbers completed in the same period in 2021 when Covid restrictions were in place, up 44.5% on last year.