There were 7,654 new dwelling completions in the second quarter of 2022, up 53.4 per cent from quarter two in 2021. Photo: Getty Images There were 7,654 new dwelling completions in the second quarter of 2022 (April to June), up 53.4 per cent from second quarter of 2021, and up 58.8 per cent from the […]

Latest figures show new home completions climbed 20,807 during the first three quarters of the year, surpassing the total for the all of 2021. More than one in eight single dwelling completions were in Cork during the first nine months of 2022. Picture: PA New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) indicate the Housing

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Responding to the latest CSO release on dwelling completions, Dr. David Duffy, Director of Property Industry Ireland (PII), the Ibec group for businesses working in the property sector, said: “Before the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the economy and society it would appear that homebuilding had been recovering, with completions in quarter 1, 2020