Moldova: 4165 housing units were commissioned in the first half of 2021, which is 1374 units (49.2%) more than in the same period a year earlier.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported this, noting that, at the same time, the total area of residential premises (apartments and individual houses), put into operation in January-June 2021, amounted to 327.1 thousand square meters (sq. m), and, compared to the same period in 2020, this figure also increased by 49.2%. According to official statistics, in the first half of 2021, 3287 apartments with a total area of 220.2 thousand sq. m were commissioned in the country as a whole, which is 50.5% more relative to the indicators of the same period of 2020 in terms of the number of apartments (in the same period a year earlier - 2184), as well as 49.7% more in terms of area (147.1 thousand sq. m). At the same time, in January-June 2021, 878 residential buildings with a total area of 106.9 thousand square meters were commissioned, which is 44.6% higher than the indicators of the same period of the previous year in terms of the number of such housing commissioned (a year earlier - 607 units) and by 48.1% - in terms of area (a year earlier - 72.2 thousand square meters). According to the NBS, in the urban area of Moldova in the first half of 2021, 3654 housing units were commissioned (in the same period a year earlier - 2395 units) with a total area of 265 thousand square meters (a year earlier - 175.5 thousand sq. m), which is 52.6% higher than the indicators of the same period in 2020 in terms of the number of housing and 51% - in terms of area. In rural areas, in January-June 2021, 511 housing units were commissioned, which is 29% more than in the same period a year earlier (396 units), and its total area increased by 41.6% - from 43.8 thousand sq. m in the first half of 2020 up to 62.1 thousand sq. m in the first half of 2021. At the same time, most of the housing was commissioned in January-June 2021 in the Chisinau municipality - 3392 units (up 42.8%, compared to the same period in 2020) with an area of 241.7 thousand sq. m (+ 41.9%). In the Northern region in January-June of this year there were put into operation 190 units of housing (+ 42.9%) with a total area of 23.7 thousand square meters (+ 44.6%), in the Central region - 363 housing units (+ 89.1%) with a total area of 40.2 thousand square meters (+ 85.4%), in the Southern region - 145 housing units (up 2.2 times) with a total area of 13.6 thousand square meters (+ 72.6%), and in ATU Gagauzia - 75 housing units (up 3.1 times) with a total area of 7.9 thousand square meters (up 2.6 times). // 02.09.2021 – InfoMarket
