Germany - Building Permits





Germany: Building Permits

Mnemonic HPMT.IDEU
Unit #, NSA
Adjustments Not Seasonally Adjusted
Monthly 4.07 %
Data May 2026 20,992
Apr 2026 20,172

Series Information

Source Federal Statistical Office (FSO) - Germany
Release Building Permits (FSO)
Frequency Monthly
Start Date 1/31/2003
End Date 5/31/2026

Germany: Real Estate

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
House Price Index Jun 2026 249.92 249.77 Index August 2005=100, NSA Monthly
House Price Index for Existing Homes Jun 2026 178.02 180.2 Index August 2005=100, NSA Monthly
House Price Index for New Homes 2026 Q2 140.3 137 Index 2021=100, NSA Quarterly
House Price Value for Existing Homes Jun 2026 374,152 378,895 Euros, NSA Monthly
Building Permits May 2026 20,992 20,172 #, NSA Monthly
Non-residential Building Permits Apr 2026 3.84 4.61 Bil. DEM/Bil. EUR, CDASA Monthly
Building Completions 2025 139,481 161,682 Number Annual
Residential Building Permits 2024 54,806 67,889 #, NSA Annual
Dwelling Stocks 2022 43,366 43,084 Ths., NSA Annual

Release Information

For Germany, 

The source writes:

Building and living on the basis of the above ground construction statistics law from the year 1998 the statistics of building activity are accomplished. The subject of the building activity statistics are building permits and completions of building in the above ground construction, the building overhang at the end of the year, building outlets of above ground structures and the updating of the residential building and housing stock.

  • Measurements:
    • Unitary count (#)
    • Thousands of euros (Ths. Euros)
    • Thousand square metres
  • Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA) 
  • Native frequency: Monthly
  • Start date:
    • Monthly - 2003m1
    • Annual - 2001
  • Geo coverage: Country (IDEU)

The source writes:

Living situation on the basis of the micro census law in Germany every four years as auxiliary module to micro censuses a collection is accomplished for living situation. The latter took place in the year 2006. The available data of the micro census auxiliary collection of 2006 supply information about the structure of the housing units as well as about the living situation of the households. In detail data become the kind, size and year of construction of the building, the surface of the dwelling and use by owners, principal tenants or subtenants, the equipment of the dwelling regarding heating type and warm-water supply, used energy for the heating and/or warm-water supply, to the introduction year of the household and the monthly rent including cold additional expenses (gross cold rent) 

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the monthly count of permitted dwelling units in res and non-res buildings, we compute an SAAR counterpart.

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