Cyprus - Building Permits

For Cyprus, the monthly national total of building permits by 23 types of residential and non-residential real estate. For each type, metrics include value, area, count of permits and count of dwelling units.

Active:

• Classification: CC 1996
• Measurements:
  • Unitary count of permits or dwelling units (#)
  • Euros (EUR)
  • Square meters (m²)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: As early as 2000m1
• Lag: 6 to 8 weeks
• Geo coverage: (No breakdown carried by Data Buffet)

Predecessor:

• In CYP - 2003 to 2007

"Big" projects are those with areas greater than 900 square meters.

Project type is classified by the numeric coding "CC 1996," sections 11 (111, 112, 113), 12 (121-127), 2, 3 and 4.

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the count of buildings, for select concepts (single houses and apartments-proxy) we compute seasonally adjusted (SAAR) supplements using X-13ARIMA-SEATS.

For reported data, none. For the Moody's Analytics SA supplements, we recalculate seasonal factors annually.

Further reading

At the source:

• There is no methodology for building permits.
• Full methodologies for CYSTAT's other construction datasets are provided online, and the surveys used.