Home completions recovered in Q3 – CSO
Official figures show that completions of new homes picked up pace in the third quarter (Q3) after a weaker second quarter.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) said that 10,154 new homes were finished in July, August, and September – an increase of 10.4% on the same period last year.
After a strong start to the year, there had been a 3.6% annual drop in completions in the previous quarter.
Apartments up almost 10%
The CSO's Q3 figures show that apartment completions rose by 9.8% compared with a year earlier to 3,464.
There were 5,163 scheme dwelling completions – up 13.5% from Q3 last year.
The 1,527 single dwellings finished represented an annual increase of 2.1%.
More than half of completions (51%) were scheme dwellings, 34% were apartments, and 15% were single dwellings.
Two-thirds of apartments in Dublin
More than one-third (37%) of all homes completed during Q3 this year were in Dublin, with 18% in the mid-east region (Louth, Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow).
Just over two-thirds of finished apartments were in the Dublin region.
For the first nine months of 2026, there were 26,833 new dwelling completions – an increase of 10.6% on the same period in 2025.
Scheme completions between January and September 2026 were up 14.5% when compared with the same period in 2025.