INS: Romania Housing Permits Down To 3,807 In July

08.28.2014 By Bogdan Neagu

Romanian housing permits inched down 0.4% to 3,807 units in July, from 3,824 units a month earlier, the country’s statistics institute INS said Thursday.

The number of new residential building permits was 7.5% lower compared with July 2013, the data showed.

Residential constructions in rural areas made up for 61.5% of the new permits issued in July.

New permits for non-residential buildings, including administrative structures, surged to 2,789 units, compared with 753 units in June.

In the first seven months of the year, Romanian authorities issued 21,556 housing permits, up 0.2% from the same period of 2013.