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Building permits
The building permits indicators measure the quarterly evolution in the number of dwellings used for residential purposes, square metres of residential useful floor area and square metres of non-residential area using the Classification of types of Construction (CC).
During the first half of 2015, the residential construction units decreased compared with the same period of the previous year (-10.7% in the number of dwellings and -13.8% in useful floor area). Instead non-residential buildings increased by 6.9% compared with the same period of 2014.
The number of dwellings in new buildings decreased by 0.3% in the first quarter and by 18.9% in the second quarter with respect to first and second quarter 2014.
The useful floor area declined as well: by 6.1% in the first quarter and by 20.1% in the second quarter compared with the same periods of 2014.
Non-residential area decreased by 1.9% in the first quarter of 2015 and it increased by 15.1% in the second quarter with respect to the first and second quarter of 2014.
Date of next release: July 2016