New home completions jumped by almost 33% in the first quarter 2026 compared to the same three-month period last year.
That’s according to the latest New Dwelling Completions Q1 2026 report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
It found there were 7,856 new dwelling completions in January, February and March, a rise of 32.9% on the same three months of 2025 when there were 5,911 completions and the highest number of Q1 completions since the series began in 2011.
Apartment completions in the same period stood at 2,355 – up 33.3% from Q1 2025.
Scheme dwelling completions rose 34.5% from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026 to stand at 4,082 while single dwellings increased by 27.8% from 1,110 in Q1 2025 to 1,419 in Q1 2026.
More than half of all completions in Q1 2026 (52%) were scheme dwellings, 30% were apartments and 18% were single dwellings.
Nearly a third (32.3%) of completions in Q1 2026 were in Dublin, with less than a fifth (18.7%) in the Mid-East region (Louth, Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow).
All of the eight regions of Ireland saw a rise in completions from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. The region with the largest relative increase in completions was the Border (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, and Sligo) at 58%, while the South-West (Cork City, Cork County and Kerry) region saw the second largest relative growth at 54%.
For Q1 2026, 77.7% of apartment completions were in Dublin (1,831). In Dublin City, 95.3% of completions were apartments.
The most scheme completions were in the Mid-East region. The West region (Galway City, Galway County, Mayo, and Roscommon) had the most single completions in Q1 2026. The most completions in Q1 2026 by Local Electoral Area (LEA) were in Clondalkin in Dublin at 518.
Using the CSO six-way urban/rural classification, nearly 90% of scheme housing completions in Q1 2026 were built in either cities, satellite urban towns, independent urban towns or rural areas with high urban influence.
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