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CLARE saw the completion of 86 new dwellings in the third quarter of the year, according to figures from the Central Statistics Office.
It comes on top of the completion of 120 in the second quarter.
The months of July, August and September saw the completion of 21 dwellings in the Ennis Municipal District area. In the Killaloe MD the figure was 20, for the Kilrush MD it was 18, For the Shannon Md the figure was 15 and in the Ennistymon MD it was 12.
In the second quarter the Shannon MD had been on top with 59 completions, while Killaloe had 20 and Kilrush 17. Both Ennistymon and Ennis had 12 each.
Across the country the number of completions in the third quarter was down on the same period last year, according to CSO spokesperson Justin Anderson.
“The number of new dwelling completions have fallen by almost 8% in comparison to Q3 2020. There were 4,656 completions which is -7.7% less than the total amount seen in Q3 2020.
“Although there was a fall in completions, the overall proportion of new builds comprising of apartments continued to increase. There were 1,000 apartment completions this quarter, up 39.9% from Q3 2020. Single dwellings were down -18.1% from Q3 2020. Scheme dwellings also saw a decline, falling -14.3% in the last year.
“Of all completions in Q3 2021, 52.8% are scheme, 25.7% are single and 21.5% are apartments. This is a notable rise in the proportion of apartments completed from Q3 2020 when this was just 14.2%. Only two regions saw an increase in completions from Q3 2020; Dublin with a 12.1% increase and the Midlands with 4.2%.
“More than two-thirds of all apartment completions were in Dublin (67.4%) with 674 completed this quarter and more than half of all new dwelling completions in Dublin (54.6%) were apartments.
“The Mid-East region accounted for 34.6% of total scheme dwellings this quarter while the South-West region had the highest number of single dwelling completions, with 17.3 of all nationally.”
Owen Ryan
Owen Ryan has been a journalist with the Clare Champion since 2007, having previously worked for a number of other regional titles in Limerick, Galway and Cork.
