In February 2023, 2,571 construction permits were issued for residential buildings, increasing by 23.7 percent compared to January 2023 and decreasing by 27.4 percemt compared to February 2022, according to the National Institute of Statistics.
Of the total building permits for residential buildings, issued in February 2023, 69.0 percent are for the rural area.
In territorial terms, this growth is reflected in the following development regions: North-East (+126 authorizations), North-West (+103), South-East (+81), West (+62), Center (+47) , South-Muntenia (+43) and South-West Oltenia (+31). The decrease was recorded in the Bucharest-Ilfov development region (-1 authorization).
In February 2023, 499 building permits were issued for non-residential buildings (+23.5 percent compared to January 2023), in a total useful area of 356,638 sqm (+56.5 percent).