Portugal - Building Completions

For Portugal, a survey-based count of residential and non-residential construction permits, by purpose, monthly from 2002, for subnational areas (NUTS 1, 2 and 3).

Permits

Active:

• Measurement: Unitary count (#)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: As early as 2002m1
• Geo vintage: NUTS 2024
• Geo coverage:
  • Country
  • NUTS 1 (3x IPRT_^^^^)
  • NUTS 2 (12x IPRT_^^)
  • NUTS 3 (25x IPRT_^^^)

Predecessors:

• NUTS 2013 - 2005m1 to 2023m11 (no specifier)
• NUTS 2002

Global concept aliases:

• HPMT.IPRT
• HPMTN.IPRT
• HPMTR.IPRT

Completions

Active:

• Measurement: Unitary count (#)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Quarterly
• Start dates: 2002Q1, 2003Q1, 2011Q1
• Geo vintage: NUTS 2024
• Geo coverage:
  • Country
  • NUTS 1 (2x IPRT_^^^^)
  • NUTS 2 (12x IPRT_^^)
• All concept-geo pairs exist: Yes

Predecessors:

• NUTS 2013 - 2003Q1 to 2023Q4 (no specifier)

Global concept aliases:

• HCMP.IPRT
• HCMPN.IPRT
• HCMPR.IPRT

Monthly survey of building constructions and demolitions. 

Data are broken out by project purpose (family housing, other, and total), type of project (total construction and demolition works, new constructions and other), and dwelling typology (number of bedrooms).

Definitions

The dataset differentiates between "dwellings" and "residential buildings."  Although the latter term is not defined, based on their relative numeric values and the two definitions below, we infer that a "dwelling" is a "dwelling unit." For example, a single-family home counts as one dwelling and one residential building, whereas a ten-unit apartment building counts for ten dwellings and one residential building.

Building permit

The authorisation granted by local councils under the provisions of specific legislation, for the execution of works (new construction, enlargements, conversions, refurbishments and demolition of buildings).

New construction

The erection of an entirely new structure, whether or not the site on which it was built was previously occupied.

Building completion

When a document is signed by the client at the request of the contractor, builder or subcontractor certifying or certifying work for purposes of assessment of experience as part of the classification process.

Dwelling

A separate and independent place which was built, rebuilt, enlarged or converted to be used as a private accommodation, and that is not totally occupied for other purposes during the reference period. Separate means that the place is enclosured by classic or any other type of walls, covered, and allowing a person or group of persons to sleep, cook and shelter from intemperate weather, apart from other members of the collectivity. Independent means that its occupants do not have to pass or go through any other dwelling to get in or out the dwelling they live in.

Building

Any independent free-standing structure comprising one or more rooms or other spaces, covered by a roof, enclosed with external walls or dividing walls which extend from the foundations to the roof, and intended for residential or other purposes.

Moody's Analytics supplements

For permits: For unreported conterminous areas, we construct series. For "total family " we construct seasonally adjusted (SAAR) counterparts.

For completions: For all areas, we construct "all actions, non-residential, count of buildings" as an additive identity.

For permits: Yes. The source generally revises the last few months of data with each month's update and revises the prior year of data with the March update. 

Further reading

At the source:

• Edifícios licenciados (N.º)
• Fogos licenciados (N.º) em construções novas para habitação familiar
• List of publications: Monthly Statistical Bulletin
• List of press releases: Permits, completions

• Jan 2006 - Permits, completions: Initial version.
• Aug 2011 - Permits, completions: Addendum of NUTS 2 areas.
• Sep 2015 -  Geo delineations advanced to NUTS 2013.
• 18 Jun 2024, Phillip Thorne - Permits: Geo delineations advanced to NUTS 2024. Properties, Further reading.
• 3 Jul 2024, Phillip Thorne - Completions: Geo delineations advanced to NUTS 2024: Properties, Moody's Analytics supplements, Further reading.