Germany - Building Completions





Germany: Building Completions

Mnemonic HCMP.IDEU
Unit Number
Annual 6.44 %
Data 2021 192,055
2020 205,276

Series Information

Source Federal Statistical Office (FSO) - Germany
Release Building Completions
Frequency Annual
Start Date 12/31/2001
End Date 12/31/2021

Germany: Real Estate

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
House Price Index Feb 2023 235.33 230.48 Index August 2005=100, NSA Monthly
House Price Index for Existing Homes Feb 2023 176.9 176.2 Index August 2005=100, NSA Monthly
House Price Value for Existing Homes Feb 2023 372,330 370,821 Euros, NSA Monthly
Building Permits Jan 2023 21,949 32,646 #, NSA Monthly
House Price Index for New Homes 2022 Q4 154.7 151 Index 2015=100, NSA Quarterly
Non-residential Building Permits Dec 2022 5.45 4.73 Bil. DEM/Bil. EUR, CDASA Monthly
Building Completions 2021 192,055 205,276 Number Annual
Dwelling Stocks 2021 43,084 42,803 Ths., NSA Annual
Residential Building Permits 2021 129,306 124,596 #, NSA Annual

Release Information

For Germany, building permits and completed construction work represent the core of building activity statistics, providing an essential basis for short-term assessments of the building market’s current economic situation. At the NUTS 1, 2 and 3 subnational levels. Annual from 1995.

The survey focuses collection of data on the building owner’s assignment to an economic sector, type of building, kind of building activity, the size of the building and estimated cost of building. The outcome of this statistical survey is indispensable information to be used by legislative bodies, the Federation’s and federal states’ governments, by builders’ and craftsmen’s associations and chambers and it is also required as a basis for numerous decisions to be taken with respect to the entire economic policy and, in particular, the building policy.

Building activity surveys of building construction (building activity statistics) are regularly carried out at federal level in order to determine the volume, structure and development of building activities and to update the stock of residential buildings and dwellings.

The objects of building activity statistics are building permits, construction work completed in structural engineering, unfinished building projects at end of year, demolitions (retirements) of buildings and updated figures on the stock of residential buildings and dwellings. The direct object of registration is the building, characterised as either residential or non-residential and further subdivided by more concrete types of building. For example, residential buildings are to be recorded as one-, two- or multi-family houses or as hostels (residential homes). Non-residential buildings include, for instance, office and administrative buildings, agricultural farm buildings, buildings of factories and workshops, hotels and restaurants. Civil engineering (e.g. building of roads, tunnels, bridges) is not an object of registration in building activity statistics. The results of building activity statistics are of great importance, in particular, as early indicators of short-term economic developments.