Increase in number of homes completed so far in 2025 compared with 2024 – CSO

By Gráinne Ní Aodha, PA

The number of homes completed in the first three months of the year increased by 2 per cent compared with the same period last year, new figures show.

Completions data published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Thursday show there were 5,938 dwellings competed in January, February and March in 2025.

Just over half of completions were scheme dwellings, 30 per cent were apartments, and 19 per cent were single dwellings.

The number of apartment completions was up 13.4 per cent when compared with 2024, the number of scheme dwellings was down 1.7 per cent, and the number of single dwellings was down 3.5 per cent.

Six out of eight regions in Ireland saw a rise in homes completed when the first three months in 2024 are compared with 2025.

Nearly a third of completions in the first quarter of the year were in Dublin, with a fifth in the Mid-East region (counties Louth, Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow).

The region with the largest relative increase in completions was the West – Galway City and County, Mayo, and Roscommon – at 5.8 per cent, while the border regions of Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, and Sligo saw the second largest relative growth at 5 per cent.

The Government has come under pressure to boost Ireland’s supply of homes amid a housing crisis that has seen house prices skyrocket and resulted in record numbers of homeless people.

The last coalition had a target of building around 33,000 homes a year until 2030, but this target was raised in the programme for government to over 300,000 new homes between now and the end of 2030.

The target for this year is 41,000 new builds, despite the fact that the Government missed its new-build target of 33,450 for last year by 3,120.

The Department of Housing released figures this week that confirmed the Government missed its new-build social housing target by 1,429 last year, or 15 per cent, having also missed it in previous years.

The Central Bank has projected that the Government will miss its own housing targets by a wide margin for the next three years.