There were 30,330 new dwelling completions in Ireland last year, a decrease of 6.7% from 2023.
That’s according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which show that the largest relative decrease was in apartment completions, which were down 24.1% from 11,542 in 2023 to 8,763 in 2024.
There were 16,200 scheme dwelling completions last year, a rise of 4.6% from the previous year, while 5,367 single dwellings were completed last year, a fall of 2.2% from 12 months earlier.
In 2024, 53.4% of completions were scheme dwellings, 28.9% were apartments, and 17.7% were single dwellings.
More than half of new builds for the full year were in Dublin or the mid-east, which includes Kildare, Louth, Meath, and Wicklow. Over the year, some 35.9% of national completions were in Dublin with 18.4% in the Mid-East.
By local electoral area, the most completions last year were in Donaghmede in Dublin with 1,178. Over 500 of these completions were in the last three months of the year.
The next most popular areas were Clondalkin (1,054) and Killiney-Shankill (940).
The figures are short of what was predicted by outgoing Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien. Last October, he said that the Government would exceed to Housing For All target for 2024 of around 33,000 new builds.
There was also a fall of 17.4% in seasonally adjusted new dwelling completions from Q3 2024 to Q4 2024.
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