Slight increase in home building, construction permits concentrated in the capital
In 2022, 20,540 new dwellings were built, 3.2% more than a year earlier. Based on issued dwelling construction permits and simple declarations, the number of homes to be built increased by 17% to 35,002 compared to 2021.
In Budapest, 6,610 dwellings were taken into use, 6.1% fewer than in 2021. The number of new dwellings increased slightly in towns of county rank (11%), decreased in other towns (-3.9%), and increased by almost a quarter in villages (24%) compared to last year.
In the Pest region, the number of new dwellings taken into use fell by a similar ratio as in the capital: 3,800 new dwellings were handed over, a decrease of 7.8%.
Outside the statistical large region of Central Hungary, the number of new dwellings increased everywhere compared to 2021. There was an outstanding increase in the Southern Great Plain region (30%), where almost half of the nearly 2,000 new dwellings were put into use in the regional centre. The 2,700 new dwellings in the Western Transdanubia region represents a 3.1% increase compared to last year. At the same time, just over 600 dwellings were built in Northern Hungary, which showed a similar rate of growth from a low base. In the other regions of the country, the number of new dwellings ranged between 1,300 and 1,800, representing an increase of around 20% in each region.
The share of dwellings built by natural persons increased from 35% to 39%, while the share built by businesses decreased from 64% to 60% compared to 2021.
49% of the new dwellings put into use in new residential buildings are in detached houses, 39% in multi-storey, multi-dwelling buildings, and 9.0% in resident’s parks.
The average floor area of dwellings put into use increased by 5.4 m2 to 96.1 m2 compared to 2021.
The number of dwellings to be built on the basis of construction permits and declarations was 35,002, 17% more than a year earlier.
In 2022, the number of construction permits issued exceeded the number of dwellings put to use by 14,462, an increase of 44% compared to the difference in the previous year.
Behind the national increase in the number of construction permits, there are sharply diverging territorial trends. Compared to the previous year, the number of permits increased by almost two and a half times in the capital, but decreased in all other settlement categories: by 5.6% in towns of county rank, by 16% in other towns and by 11% in villages.
Outside the capital, only one region, Western Transdanubia, saw an increase in the number of dwellings to be built, up 14% on the previous year.
Builders made use of the simple declaration option in 46% of cases. This rate is lowest in Budapest at 11% and highest in villages at 85%.
A total of 13,897 residential buildings are planned to be built, a 16% decrease compared to 2021, issued new construction permits show. 77% of them, a total of 10,727 units, are one-dwelling residential buildings.
4,768 permits were issued for non-residential buildings, a decrease of 5.0% compared to a year earlier.
New dwelling construction permits and simple declarations, dwellings put to use and ceased
| Territorial unit | New dwelling construction permits issued (declarations) | Number of dwellings put to use | Number of dwellings ceased to exist | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | 2022 as a percentage of 2021 | 2021 | 2022 | 2022 as a percentage of 2021 | 2021 | 2022 | |||
| 2021 | 2022 | of which: simple declarations | |||||||
| Budapest | 5 491 | 13 399 | 1 478 | 244.0 | 7 038 | 6 610 | 93.9 | 209 | 154 |
| Towns of county rank | 5 878 | 5 546 | 2 836 | 94.4 | 4 196 | 4 651 | 110.8 | 379 | 357 |
| Other towns | 10 122 | 8 518 | 5 476 | 84.2 | 5 243 | 5 040 | 96.1 | 833 | 737 |
| Villages | 8 450 | 7 539 | 6 400 | 89.2 | 3 421 | 4 239 | 123.9 | 550 | 483 |
| Total | 29 941 | 35 002 | 16 190 | 116.9 | 19 898 | 20 540 | 103.2 | 1 971 | 1 731 |
Methodological note: in accordance with Government Decree 456/2015. (XII. 29.) statistical data contain construction permits, simple declarations, put to use permits and official certificates concerning the put to use of buildings constructed on the basis of simple declaration.