Based on data deductions from September 15, 2020,
new results for the 2019 reporting year as well as revised figures for
the completion periods 2005 to 2018 that have already been published
are available. In 2019, almost 78 000 apartments were built across Austria.
It does not include the units to be built in Vienna by acquisition,
conversion or construction of existing buildings. This number was the
highest result to date even since the eighties of the last century.
Especially with regard to the last three reporting years, which are
more comparable, the current result represents the highest value to
date. The increase compared to the previous year was around 12% or 8 500
apartments, compared to 2017 an increase of over 26% or around 16 200
was absolutely quantifiable.
Construction activity was dominated by multi-storey residential construction
which made up almost 59% of all completions in 2019. Around a quarter
of all units were built with one and two-family houses in the same period.
With the exception of the federal capital, 16% of the apartments were
created through extension, construction and renovation activities on
existing buildings. The value of the comparatively few entities that
came about with new non-residential buildings was 1%. The corresponding
distributions from the two previous years showed a similar picture with
increases in the proportions of larger residential buildings contrasting
with declines in add-on, construction and conversion activities as well
as in single and two-family houses.
All these figures are preliminary and estimated.
Starting from the final housing stock of the register
census 2011 (deadline 31st October), adding the estimated completion
results (excluding conversion work in Vienna) and deducting all reported
departures from the housing (with the exclusion of any possible housing
losses due to construction, construction and alteration work in Vienna)
at the end of 2019 an updated portfolio of around 4 847 000 apartments
had to be calculated.
The capital of Vienna achieved the highest share of not quite 22%. In
Lower Austria it was just over 19%. Almost 16% of the apartments were
in Upper Austria and around 14% in Styria. For Tyrol, the extrapolation
resulted in a proportion of almost 9%. Carinthia followed by Salzburg
achieved almost 7 or more than 6% here. In Vorarlberg more than 4% could
be determined. At the lower end of the regional distribution is Burgenland
with a population share of more than 3%.
These figures are preliminary and estimated in terms of accesses to apartments.
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