Press release No. 212 of 23 May 2022
- Number of new dwellings fell to under 300,000 in 2021
- Number of new single-family houses decreased by 10.4% year on year
- Unfinished building projects at highest level since 1996 – just under 847,000 dwellings with building permit but not completed
WIESBADEN – The Federal Government has set itself the goal of constructing 400,000 new dwellings in Germany every year. In 2021, the construction of 293,393 dwellings was completed in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a year-on-year decline of 4.2% or 12,983 dwellings. After more than 300,000 new dwellings had been constructed for the first time in 2020, the figure in 2021 was down to the level of 2019 (2020: 306,376 new dwellings; 2019: 293,002). The annual increase in the number of completed dwellings, which started in 2011, did not continue in 2021. The figures include construction work completed regarding new buildings and work on existing buildings.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Construction work completed (31121) in the GENESIS-Online database.
