According to the State Statistics Service, the total area of residential buildings for which construction permits have been issued (new construction) decreased by 39% in the nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2022 – to 3.17 million square meters.
In particular, the total area of new apartment buildings constructed was 3.06 million square meters. (96% of the total volume). In Kyiv, the total area of new housing construction decreased by 54.7% to 296,100 square meters. In the Kyiv region, the drop was 68.2%, to 468.3 million square meters, in Lviv, by 24.9%, and in Khmelnytsky, by 25.2%. Also, the Rivne (-80%), Volyn (-77%), Ternopil (-66.5%), and Odesa (-59.2%) regions also showed a significant reduction in volumes.
At the same time, the largest growth was recorded in the Chernivtsi region (+326.4%), the Ivano-Frankivsk region (+281%), the Dnipropetrovsk region (+131.2%), the Vinnytsia region (+40.4%) and the Zakarpattia region (+15.3%). In the remaining areas of Ukraine, the amount of new construction was less than 100,000 square meters for the period.