New figures released by the Central Statistics Office show the number of houses built in 2023 was 32,695, an annual increase of 10 per cent.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, there was 10,289 completions, a rise of 13 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2022.
In 2023, 47.4 per cent of completions were from housing schemes, a further 35.6 per cent were apartments, and 17 per cent were single dwellings.
There were 15,505 housing scheme completions in 2023, a rise of 2.4 per cent from 2022, while 5,548 single dwellings were completed, which was a growth of 0.9 per cent from 2022.
The number of apartments completed in 2023 was 11,642, up 28.0 per cent from 2022.
The Local Electoral Area, the most completions in 2023 were in Glencullen-Sandyford while the most in Q4 2023 were in South-West Inner City Dublin.
Close to six in 10 completions in Q4 2023 and for the full year 2023 were in Dublin or the Mid-East (Kildare, Louth, Meath, and Wicklow).
Of all completions in Dublin in 2023, some 71.9 per cent were apartments.
There has been a small rise of 2.3 per cent in seasonally adjusted new housing completions from Q3 2023 to Q4 2023.
