ALMOST 500 new homes were completed in Donegal in the first nine months of this year.
Latest figures by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show 449 new homes were finished in the county from January to September of this year.
It’s the highest number of completions recorded in Donegal for the first three-quarters of any year since the CSO data series began in 2011.
The number is also an increase of 8.2 per cent on the same period of 2022, when 461 units were completed.
Nationally, a record 22,443 homes have been completed in the first nine months of 2023 so far – an 8.9 per cent increase on the same period in 2022.
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, has welcomed the positive signs that strong momentum in house building is continuing locally.
Minister O’Brien said supply is central to dealing with all the key challenges in housings.
“All the key indicators are trending upwards. Nationally, the number of planning permissions for the first nine months of this year were up.
In the same period, the number of new build homes commenced was almost 24,000 homes – a 14.3 per cent increase on the same period last year.
And now, the latest CSO figures on completions show that in both Donegal and countrywide, supply is increasing and that we are going in the right direction.
“Our housing target for 2023 is 29,000 new homes and this news strongly signals that we will meet this target – if not exceed it.”
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