CSO: Kildare Saw Highest Home Completions In Ireland In Quarter Three.

Monday, 1 November 2021 13:27

Overall, new dwelling completions, nationally, were down 7.7%.

Kildare was the local authority area with the highest number of new home completions in Quarter 3.

That's according to an analysis by the Central Statistics Office, which indicates that 541 new homes were finished here between June and September.

County Cork was next highest, with 396 home completions in the period,

All other regions saw a decrease from Q3 2020, with the fall greatest at 26.4% in the South-West region, dropping from 914 in Q3 2020 to 613 in Q3 2021.

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The most apartment completions were in Dublin with 674 completed this quarter. This represents 67.4% of all apartments completed nationally. Of all completions in Dublin, 54.6% were apartments.

The highest number of apartment completions by local authorities was in Dublin City (290) and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (256).

There were also over 100 apartment completions in Fingal (106). Outside of Dublin, the highest number of apartment completions was in Kildare (86) followed by Wicklow (77).

The highest number of single dwelling completions in this quarter was in the South-West region (207) followed closely by the West (197).

The Border region had the highest proportion – 72.0% - of its completions being single dwellings.

The local authority with the highest number of single completions is Cork County (145) followed by Galway County (105).