Number of residential building permits goes up 8.5 percent in H1

The number of residential building permits went up, during the first half of the year, by 8.5 pct, as compared to the same period of 2017, reaching a number of 20,520 permits, according to the data of the National Institute of Statistics (INS), published Tuesday. 

According to the statistics, during the interval of January 1 - June 30, given the rise in the number of permits, the most important increases were recorded in the following development regions: West (+516 permits), South-West Oltenia (+402), Southern Muntenia (+352), Center (+128), Bucharest-Ilfov (+102), North-West (+95) and South-West (+86). On the other hand, in the North-East development area a drop of 69 permits was recorded as compared to the first six months of the previous year.