The building of 3,028 new homes was commenced in July – an increase of 169% on the same month last year (1,125), according to figures to be published later today by the Department of Housing.<\/p>\n
Of the new commencements last month, over half (1,612) are houses being built as part of multi-unit developments, 1,004 are apartments, with the remaining 412 made up of one-off houses.<\/p>\n
The department said that since the beginning of 2026, 18,974 new homes have been commenced, which is up 152% from the 7,539 homes commenced in the first seven months of last year.<\/p>\n
The data show it is also the second highest number of new-home commencements for the period, since recording began in 2014.<\/p>\n
Minister for Housing James Browne said: “The positive momentum observed in the first seven months of this year builds on strong figures for 2024 and 2025 combined, when a total of 85,723 new homes were commenced – an increase of 43% compared with the combined total for the previous two-year period (2022 and 2023).”<\/p>\n
Minister Browne added: “I have set ambitious targets in the Housing Action Plan and we need to keep our shoulder firmly to the wheel. I want more homes delivered and thousands of people are counting on that progress. I’m under no illusion about it.”<\/p>\n
Just over a quarter of July’s commencements are in Dublin.<\/p>\n
Figures published earlier this year by the Central Statistics Office showed that between January and March, 7,856 new homes were built – a rise of a third on the same three months in 2025, and the highest number of first-quarter completions since 2011.<\/p>\n
However, for the second quarter of the year the number of new home completions – at 8,823 – was down on the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n
The Government’s housing plan aims to have 300,000 homes built by 2030, which equates to 50,000 per year.<\/p>\n
However, overall last year there were just 36,284 new homes built, although that figures was up 20% year-on-year and was the highest number built in at least 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The building of 3,028 new homes was commenced in July – an increase of 169% on the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-598689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}